Bent bar advice

[AdamW]

Hey Rip, I posted a couple weeks ago about the bent B&R bar I received. I asked Rogue to send me one of their Rogue Power Bars as a replacement instead of another B&R and it arrived with a slight bend as well.

Just curious if you think it is worth exchanging or if for all intents and purposes it's a straight bar. Our other Rogue Bar (almost 2 years old, used and abused every session) still doesn't move a fraction of a millimeter when you spin it which makes it annoying to have a brand new bar show up with a visible bend.

Am I being too picky, or should I get another replacement sent out?

[Mark Rippetoe]

This is bullshit. Tell them so they can address this problem.

[AdamW]

Thanks, glad it's reasonable to expect better. I'm going to shoot a video of our straight bar in the same setup so nobody can blame the test itself and see what they say. Starting to get pretty disheartened at this point. I asked to have the bar inspected before shipping so that they wouldn't have to cough up anymore money on shipping me any more replacements but I guess that wasn't done.

[Mac Ward]

Just got my second B&R in the mail yesterday. It's straight, has none of the imperfections you described, and was floating around in a cardboard cylinder, no wrapping, no end caps, with a statement from the UPS guy to "be careful" because it had no end caps.

Shipping is crap, bar is great. Get it fixed.

[AdamW]

My luck must be pretty bad then because including our second Rogue Bar, that's 3 bars in a row that have showed up less straight than our first bar. I contacted Rogue, hopefully they will help me out. I'm sure they won't be happy about sending out a third bar but with any luck they'll inspect this one to avoid me doing any more complaining. $340 isn't pocket change for me so I'd really like to be happy with the damn bar.

[Mark Rippetoe]

If I were them, I'd be irritated with you too. But facts is facts.

[PressesPeople]

I just got mine today. It's fine. The endcaps were still on, though, and I left a message for rogue to make sure they took special care of it, but I doubt that had an impact.