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ICON Health & Fitness, Inc was incorporated in November of 1994. The company was born after Weider Health & Fitness sold the shares of Weslo, Inc., ProForm Fitness Products, Inc., and Weider Care to a group of companies led by Bain Capital, Inc. of Boston. At the present time, the company operates 11 locations around the world. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. is considered to be one of the largest manufacturers and retailers of fitness equipment in the world.

Icon Health and Fitness has facilities in the United States, China, Europe, and Canada. Among the brands offered by the company are NordicTrack, ProForm, Weider, FreeMotion Fitness™, Reebok, EPIC, Image, Weslo, Gold's Gym, and iFIT.com Please try to contact Icon Health And Fitness Customer Service directly prior to posting any complaints on this site.

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Jess_car...
Icon Health And Fitness - PROFORM SUCKS!!!!!

ProForm has the WORST customer service! They simply don't answer the calls and their products don't work! WORST WORST WORST ever! I bought a treadmill and a bike (very expe...

#291875
Jan 25, 2012
11

Isisangel
Icon Health And Fitness - Bad Experience - Icon Health & Fitness

Ordered a very overpriced set of replacement brake pads for my Proform exercise bike through them. They messed up the order and sent one pad rather than two. When I called them I w...

#290613
Jan 20, 2012
40

Cnetbuild
Icon Health And Fitness Service Plan

I've known icon previously since 2007 as Universal Technical Services. They are horrible. Long waits on hold (some times an hour plus). Long delays on parts (up to 4 months). T...

#284052
Dec 26, 2011
123

Tld2999
Icon Health And Fitness - Nearly 4 weeks and still waiting for shipment

Proform shipping is awful. I ordered a spin bike nearly 4 weeks ago and it still hasn't shipped. I sent an email after two weeks and was told it would ship out by Tuesday last ...

#273603
Nov 08, 2011
179

Shorty57
Icon Health And Fitness - Icon Customer Service is Impossible

I purchased a Healthrider Treadmill as a Christmas Gift. I've been dealing with Icon Customer Service since January which so far has gotten me alot of frustration and little e...

#265282
Sep 30, 2011
231

DroidCop
Icon Health And Fitness - Icon Fitness is a scam

I recently purchased Icon Fitness Tour de France indoor training bike. The advertising was very slick and product look cool. I was very excited at first. The trouble started soon a...

#263539
Sep 22, 2011
411

Ginatrai...
Icon Health And Fitness

We purchased a Nordic Track Incline Trainer X3 and have had nothing but problems with the machine. Called in to ICON 11 times in 2010. The first tech they sent out asked if I had...

#259515
Sep 02, 2011
313

Dalius
Icon Health And Fitness bad product and equally bad customer service and repair

I bought a brand new elliptical in April 2011 and by the end of July ii was broken.I have had numerous visits by the service tech from ICON to try fix this and the serv...

#259498
Sep 02, 2011
314

Razzy
Icon Health And Fitness - Icon fitness makes poor quality, the tech even told me so

I bought my Nordic track act classic in Jan 2010. within a year and a half, it has been operational about 6 of those months (and not perfectly at that) and I have had 6 visits from...

#257059
Aug 22, 2011
267

Abbygirl
Icon Health And Fitness, INC. & Proform

After waiting for months and I mean months approx. 3. ICON finally received the parts needed to fix the first problem with my brand new Proform Elliptical. Now once that problem wa...

#249902
Jul 19, 2011
367

Smathews
Icon Health And Fitness CUSTOMER SERVICE

I purchased the Gold's Gym Stride Trainer 380 almost 4 months ago. When I finally put it together, bushings and screws broke off and I could no longer use it. I contacted Icon...

#244767
Jun 22, 2011
371

Roldgold
Icon Health And Fitness - ProForm has failed 5 times to fix treadmill

Please Help, I have had it with ProForm. My Model number is PFTL99910.0 and Serial number BB540720341. I have extensive repairs attempted by the local service company not on...

#239553
May 25, 2011
448

Hann300
Icon Health And Fitness - Nordic Track X5I $850 Piece of Garbage

I bought a Nordic Track X5i for $850 dollars and it is a piece of junk. The treadmill bounces around and makes squeaky noise when you run on it. The worst thing is that the the h...

#232559
Apr 15, 2011
521

Psanders
Icon Health And Fitness / Nordic Track defective product

Purchased a Nordic Track Elliptical, it arrived defective. It took two weeks before a technician arrived. I was told it was unrepairable and needed to be replaced. Two weeks later ...

#232535
Apr 15, 2011
300

Bornjem
Icon Health And Fitness - Proform 790E shipped two months late with bad part

I ordered a Proform 790E eliptical in early January from Proform.com after doing my research. I was not told that the machine was backordered and eventually ended up waiting two m...

#232016
Apr 12, 2011
367

Tmrn76
Icon Health And Fitness sold me a treadmill that doesn't work

I recently purchased a Proform treadmill in Jan. It was delivered in Feb, and after using it once, it would not turn on. I called Proform and they arranged a technician to come and...

#231988
Apr 12, 2011
534

Jlock
Icon Health And Fitness - False Advertising

Proform (Icon Health and Fitness) advertised it's ZT5 treadmill as having a Cool Aire fan feature on their website. When I decided on this treadmill because of this extra feat...

#225992
Mar 10, 2011
242

Thegeneral
Icon Health And Fitness - Icon Fitness delivered to the wrong address - lost sale b/c of Awful Customer Service!

We bought a machine from ICon Fitness and waited for delivery, only to find they delivered it the wrong person, wrong city, wrong everything. Mistakes happen - I was understanding....

#220735
Feb 09, 2011
305

CCSunny
Icon Health And Fitness - NordicTrack & Icon Health & Fitness

I ordered a NordicTrack Elliptical a few months ago, the Pathfinder. The machine itself provides a great workout. It is smooth at normal speeds, but if you get going at a fast pa...

#220228
Feb 06, 2011
443

Anonymous
Icon Health And Fitness - NORDIC TRACK AND ICON SERVICE SHOULD BE OUT OF BUSINESS

I too received a damaged product and had delivery and assembly service. I waited a month for a new one (which compared to some of the others I have read was good). The second one...

#219863
Feb 04, 2011
401

Wingmoto
Icon Health And Fitness - Icon Fitness / Nordictrack lost...

I have had it with Icon Fitness. Long story short, I purchased an elliptical (ACT Pro) it came in damaged. After almost 3 months, I'm still screwing around with the company until...

#218704
Jan 28, 2011
332

Anonymous
Icon Health And Fitness - Icon Fitness Customer Service & Warranty

I've never had worse customer service in my life. Purchased a ProForm treadmill in Nov '09 & purchased a year extended warranty for $89. On same day of purchase I received...

#217640
Jan 22, 2011
750

Hardwork...
Icon Health And Fitness - Proform 790E Elliptical broken within 3 months of purchase, and no replacement part available.

After completing research online and in stores, I finally decided on purchasing a Proform 790E Elliptical. I ordered it online directly from Proform which is an ICON Fitness brand....

#214691
Jan 04, 2011
606

Alm
Icon Health And Fitness - No $300 refund for over 3 months

I ordered a Nordictrack treadmill from Icon fitness the middle of Sept. I paid $239 for platinum delivery which includes bringing it into the room I chose and assembling it and hau...

#213581
Dec 28, 2010
602

Marathon...
Icon Health And Fitness - Warrenty refund for Proform I returned to Amazon.

I have requested for two weeks now for a warranty return from Icon Health & Fitness Co. I received a damage Pro form 690 LT on delivery from Amazon and send the Pro form 690 LT bac...

#205351
Nov 02, 2010
271

Anonymous
Icon Health And Fitness - Trying to get replacement parts.

I have had my Stride Trainer 380 Eliptical from Icon Fitness for about 5 months. It has always been a little noisy after a couple of days of use. After 5 months of use my pedal a...

#204207
Oct 25, 2010
1037

Tcoelho
Icon Health And Fitness - Broken with No Service

My ACT Elliptical broke after less than 100 days. Serviceman showed up at my house with his 5yr old daughter two weeks later. Reports the repair is major and I should request an ...

#195860
Aug 26, 2010
423

Needhelp
Icon Health And Fitness - Horrible Experience in Every Way

NordicTrack Elliptical - Below is how a company loses respect / repeat customers. I purchased the NordictTrack AudioStrider 990 Pro with great enthusiasm and anticip...

#191188
Jul 26, 2010
549

Richard ...
Icon Health And Fitness - FIELD TECHNICIANS NOT PAID

I have been a field technician for over 3 years now. ICON/UTS utilizes independent contractors to provide warranty and non-warranty service. It provides a very good income and th...

#191078
Jul 25, 2010
673

Anonymous
Icon Health And Fitness - ICON FreeMotion- Charged $25 to register equipment

I plan never to buy from ICON again. In January 2010 I bought a five fitness machines for a home gym. Two of the items were made by Icon, a Freemotion f5.6 Strider & Freemotion TT3...

#184882
Jun 07, 2010
856
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