York Barbell has a 300lb weight set with olympic barbell and collars on sale for $399 plus tax, shipping and handling. If you live in DE, MD, or PA, you can select local pick up to avoid the shipping cost. There is still an $11 handling fee. Seems like a good deal if you live in the area. I'll be picking mine up Dec. 15th. There's a weight lifting hall of fame at the outlet store location, so might make the trip worthwhile. They also supposedly have a "dents and scratches" section at the store, I might try to pick up some other stuff while i'm there.
They also have other online tiered discount promo codes (YORK50, YORK75, and YORK100). $50 off $500-749, $75 off $750-$999, and $100 of $1000 or more, not applicable to some sale items including the 300lb weight plate set. Their bumper plates (sold in pairs) are reasonably priced and fall under the tiered discount if you purchase enough of them. I priced a 330lb set of black bumpers for $520 after tax for local pick up, $679 with shipping.
Only thing I can't speak to is the quality of the equipment. It's hard to find reviews, but google has generally positive reviews on the outlet store. York Barbell has a supposedly long history of making quality equipment in the past, but I've heard it is not made in the US anymore. If anyone else has experience with their equipment, feel free to chime in. I'm giving the 300lb set a shot as a starter set for my home gym.
https://yorkbarbell.com/product/2...plate-set/
Link below to their black friday sale flyer, which says in store only but all of these prices appear to be online now as well:
https://yorkbarbell.com/location/outlet-store/
First deal post, hope its helpful
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"The York Barbell 7' Olympic Barbell features high quality North American made steel. This bar has a 1000lb weight limit and a 28mm/1.125" bar diameter. Combine that with 15 3/4" sleeve lengths and you are set to load up your weights and start hitting your own personal records."
The bar with the dick's set or some other sets are basically throw aways. This York bar looks like something you could start out with and actually get some miles out of.
If the Dick's set is $350 now, I may actually consider that as I just moved and had to sell the one I had. But I've also been seeing weights for $0.90/lb consistently on FB marketplace around here; just been waiting for a price that would potentially beat that, but I don't think I'm going to anytime soon
Believe it or not, weight is not weight.
Believe it or not, weight is not weight.
The barbell is okay. I upgraded to Titan's basic $100 economy bar though and it's leagues better.
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Anyway aside from all that, I'm also pointing out the bulk of the cost of these sets is for the plates themselves. And as far as that goes, weight pretty much is weight. To the point where, in fact, I'm still pretty disappointed at ALL the "deals" I've seen so far, since none of them have even managed to beat the very common $0.90/lb rates I've seen locally through craigslist or whatever. So, if the bars, or what have you, on these cheaper sets really suck that much - you'd probably be better off sourcing some cheap old plates off CL and getting a decent $100 bar like someone said above. Which is what I'm starting to think I might just do. Unless you really need your weights to all style-match, or something like that..
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