False Precision, But Basically Works
I am not in the habit of writing reviews, but buyers should be aware of a few things. First, it is a piece of glass resting on top of four circular pads, so you will not be under illusions about why it is so cheap. Second, it is not obvious how to turn it on, the directions are incoherent. There is a battery compartment on the back with a tiny unlabeled switch inside of it. Left is Kg, right is Lbs.<br /><br />I'm fairly indifferent to these aesthetic details. However, the display implies it has a precision to one decimal place, but it is not actually that precise. When I got back home from work I was exactly two pounds lighter. I picked up a textbook and was exactly three pounds heavier. Testing it again, it was bouncing back and forth by 1.2 pounds, sometimes giving one or the other answer.<br /><br />I have not tested other scales yet to check for accuracy (if it is consistently biased by some number from actual weight), but it is the weight differences that really matter, so I do not hugely care and will just adjust it in my head. There is no way to reset the tare weight. It will still roughly do what I need to police myself in a downward or stationary trend. If you expect the scale to reveal some infallible, metaphysical truth about yourself, you should probably buy a more expensive one.
Rating: 3 stars