MAXSTRENGTH Olympic Rubber Weight Plates, 7.5 to 15 kg

The MAXSTRENGTH plate set is the eighth entry in this guide and the lowest price among the plate listings the guide sets side by side, at £29.99. What that £29.99 actually buys is where the listing stops being clear. The title offers 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 kg options; the bullet points talk about 7.5 kg, 10 kg and 15 kg plates; and the spec table gives a single Item Weight of 15 kg. If 15 kg is what arrives, the price works out at about £2.00 per kilo — against roughly £1.36 per kilo for the £30.91 set further up this guide. Cheap per order, then, not cheap per kilo, and the listing never states which of the five set sizes that price refers to.

Two smaller problems sit in the same table. The Material field reads "Ruber" — rubber, misspelt — and the product code printed in the spec table is not the code on the listing it is printed on, so parts of that table have been carried over from somewhere else. The rating is 4.2 from 47 ratings, split 64% at five stars and 8% at one star; on 47 ratings that is roughly 30 satisfied buyers and about four who were not, so the low band carries real weight here. Every figure on this page comes from the Amazon listing as it stands, not from any testing of our own.