Blackbearfitness Reviews 

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TrustScore 4 out of 5

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Evaluating 154 reviews, reviewers had a great experience with this company, consistently highlighting the exceptional product quality, very fair and affordable prices, alongside incredibly fast shipping times. Customers frequently mention that the staff provides friendly assistance and expert recommendations, ensuring that ordering, installing, and collecting home gym equipment remains a completely seamless process. Some reviewers were not happy with occasional delivery delays, missing components upon arrival, or receiving items inside damaged boxes featuring noticeable paint chips. However, consumers noted that the responsive support team worked professionally and swiftly to correct these shipping problems, communicate clearly, and dispatch necessary replacements.

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Product, delivery and price were all great but I ended up with two different models of what I ordered. Not a deal breaker and wouldn't stop me using BlackBearFitness in the future.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Ordered over a week ago (ORDER #14980). Part 1 arrived as advertised. Part 2 is still not showing as being received by the courier company, according to the tracking company. The number advertised i... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great customer service, high quality gym kit. Fast delivery all for £4.95 amazing. Leg extension/ curl machine arrived,it was extremely well packaged. Inside the packing crate everything was wrapped i... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Ordered & collected a home gym set up recently, barbell, weight plates, crash mats & a squat rack, very happy with all & the squat rack was simple to put together. Everything is exceptionally priced... See more

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  1. #32 of 42 best companies in Fitness Equipment Wholesaler

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Here at BlackBear Fitness we specialise in commercial and home gym fitness equipment. Our knowledge on our products gives us second to none experience in the advice we will be able to offer you in deciding what best suits your requirements. Whether you're on a tight budget and testing the fitness waters or you're looking to outfit a full state of the art training facility, we will go above and beyond to see you get exactly and more that you need from us. No pressure quotes and genuinely impartial advice is what we'll always offer, we're happy as long as you are happy. If we can strike some deals in the meantime, great. If we can't we just hope you learned something to make an informed decision down the line.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect home gym set up

Anthony recently installed a home gym for us and we love it so we've just ordered some extra kit and as expected everything was delivered super quick and it’s such great quality. We now have some awesome medicine balls up on the wall and extra bars I had my eye on. Would definitely recommend!

31 March 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for such a lovely review, Mary.

We're delighted to hear you're enjoying your home gym setup and that everything arrived as expected. It was a pleasure helping with the installation and seeing the gym come together.

Thank you for choosing BlackBear again and we look forward to helping with any future additions.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant quality

Brilliant quality, great customer service and fast efficient delivery I would 100% recommend

15 January 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for the fantastic review.

We're really pleased to hear you were happy with the quality of the equipment, customer service and delivery experience.

Your recommendation means a lot to us and we appreciate you taking the time to leave a review.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service

Ordered on Monday arrived on Wednesday, there driver was very helpful.

23 March 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Hi Shayne,

Thanks for your lovely review, we appreciate the comments.


Thanks
BlackBear Fitness

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely appalling customer service

Absolutely appalling customer service. Received incomplete piece of equipment to then be told they would send missing parts. Waited 2 months with no appropriate response. Will never use this company again

27 March 2026
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Great quality equipment, aftercare lacks

Great quality equipment. Communication started strong. Missing part prevented being able to complete installations, pulley missing from the cable functional power rack I purchased. No instructions to put machine together. They did sent out a spare. However didn’t realise nutt that bolts the sleeve of the smith machine also missing. Several emails in and just being ignored. Took a barbell apart and fortunately same nut that holds the sleeve in a barbell holds the smith machine sleeve. There’s a little too much play between top cable stack plate and the first pully so had to use a lot of grease on the rods to prevent the cable stack sticking.
One kettlebell also had cosmetic damage.
As I brought the equipment for a client, I purchased a second kettlebell from another supplier. No instructions for putting Shame as I was really pleased to start of with and unfortunately aftercare not the best.

19 February 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Hi Oliver,

Do accept my apologies for the after care you received on this order. It's not a standard we'd normally offer to any customer. I can see the manual etc was sent, but if you could drop us a call on 01733 602 409 we can assist on the kettlebell damage etc, sometimes couriers do get a bit heavy handed on deliveries but we can see if we can get that sorted in the next day or two etc for you as well.


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BlackBear

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Item was delivered damaged so asked for…

Item was delivered damaged so asked for refund or something. So they sent a label for it to be posted back only the lable is 2kg and the item is 25 kg .so the only way you can contact is telephone and they dont answer. Leave message and they dont get back to you.so not happy as they have my money and I have an item thats damaged

8 March 2026
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

3months still no product and poor communication.

Waited more nearly 3months for a product to arrive. And I’ve had to chase the company multiple times with no resolve. After being told you will receive a call back nothing happens. Would not recommend this company to a single person. Stay clear spend a little more and receive a better customer experience.

18 March 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great products and excellent service…

Great products and excellent service had a problem with the delivery company and they sorted it straight away will definitely buy from Black bear fitness again

9 March 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for the review George.

I’m glad my team could proactively support you with the courier issue :)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Olympic EZ bar

Olympic EZ bar is excellent quality product and at a very reasonable price. It arrived on time, and unlike other companies I have purchased from the bar was very well packed which avoided the bar being damaged.

4 March 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Hi Roy

We appreciate your kind comments.
If you ever need anything again we’d love to get you a nice deal :)

BlackBear

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Garage Gym Installation & Flooring

Had a gym installed and flooring, guys turned up in the morning and smashed it out with in 4 hrs, gym is amazing and the flooring top quality stuff !! The machine quality is 2nd to none and Ant the owner is amazing bloke! Will 100% recommend and use again over other gym companies !

9 March 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for the brilliant review, Conor.

It was a pleasure helping with your garage gym installation and flooring project. We're delighted to hear you're happy with both the equipment and the finished setup.

Thank you for your support and recommendation. We look forward to helping with any future gym projects.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Absolute quality equipment

Absolute quality equipment, the owner himself was able to give us good advice on what to buy as well! Couldn’t be happy with the equipment we’ve received.
High quality equipment and fantastic customer service.

1 March 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Missing Items & No Support

We placed an order on 15/02/26 and after an initial carrier mix-up, we received part of the order on the 18th. Despite multiple unanswered emails and calls, we are still waiting for the rest of the delivery.

We got through on two occasions, the 23rd and today, both times they said they'd get back the same day and we've still still heard nothing about our missing items.

15 February 2026
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Great products - terrible customer service

Really didn’t want to have to leave a negative review as we are really pleased with the items we have received. They were reasonably priced, quality is great and quick delivery. However, we were sent a 7ft Barbell instead of a 6ft barbell which unfortunately does not fit in our small home gym. I have contacted them multiple times via email, phone and social media, on two occasions I have been told this will be sorted and never heard back from them again. Customer service is very poor and very difficult to get hold of anyone.

15 February 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for your feedback, Sarah.

We're pleased to hear you were happy with the quality, pricing and delivery of the products received.

However, we're very sorry to hear about the issues you experienced regarding the incorrect barbell and the difficulties you faced trying to contact us. We completely understand how frustrating that must have been.

Customer communication is something we take seriously and we're continually working to improve our response times and follow-up processes.
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The level of customer service and…

The level of customer service and support continues to let them down. The equipment quality and prices are decent but after that it all deteriorates. This is the second order from BBF and both times we have had issues with delivery, after service, support and communication. The first time, delivery and installation dates were missed with no notice, and then parts were missing when the delivery arrived which had to be sent separately. Further parts were still missing after that but I gave up chasing in the end after the continued lack of response. I only ordered the second time as I wanted the equipment to match. Second time the delivery was ok but I needed a different size and have been trying to return or exchange the weights for well over 2 weeks now, and again BBF are now not responding to emails or calls. Meaning I am stuck with the wrong equipment. All very unnecessary and very frustrating. Please sort out the customer service.

26 January 2026
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

After Sales Service

If you receive faulty equipment, the aftersales service is appalling. After Informing them of a fault on 10/01/26 and following up 4 times for a solution, as at 24/02/26, I have yet to receive a solution or response from my last communication on 09/02/26. I have had a piece of equipment for two months that I can't use despite my best efforts to give them every chance to rectify.

24 February 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Still waiting....

placed the order on 9th Feb. 1-2 days delivery schedule. Rang on the 13th Feb to chase and was told they would look into it and call me right back.

A week later, now on the 20th and no delivery, no call back, just a large amount of money out of my account.

have emailed, called, left messages.

9 February 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for your feedback.

We're very sorry to hear about your experience and understand your frustration regarding the delay and lack of communication.

We appreciate that being left waiting for an order without updates is disappointing, particularly when expectations have been set around delivery times.

Feedback such as this helps us identify areas where we need to improve and we are continuing to strengthen both our communication and order tracking processes.

Thank you for taking the time to bring this to our attention.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service and customer support.

Great bumper plates and were delivered very quickly. Ordered Tuesday evening and arrived Thursday morning. Well packaged and secured with straps. Will 100% use again.

19 February 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for the fantastic review, Stuart.

We're delighted to hear you were happy with both the bumper plates and the delivery experience. We always aim to provide quality equipment backed by great service.

Thank you for choosing BlackBear and we hope to help you again in the future.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Good product and company, poor instructions

the product I ordered was fine and shipped very quickly. However, I am making them down as the instructions for assembly (a kettlebell storage rack) were some of the worst I had ever seen. The rack contains two sets of bolts which are only different by 5mm. It is not clear from the single page of assembly directions which length of bolt is supposed to go where.

23 January 2026
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Dumbbell set and bumper plates

Brought a few different pieces for my gym from here now and the owner is super helpful and all the gear is top notch! Collected it all and everything was brand new wrapped up.

13 February 2026
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Reply from Blackbearfitness

Thank you for the lovely review, April.

We're really pleased to hear you're happy with the equipment and that everything was ready for collection as expected.

It was a pleasure helping you put together your gym setup and we appreciate your support.

Anthony & The BlackBear Team

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