Inconsistent and innaccurate. Or, on the bright side, great for those who want to be in denial about weight fluctuations
As pretty and compact as this very nice-looking bathroom scale is, it has real problems with consistency and accuracy. Its fluid relationship with the truth is like being lied to by a cheating boyfriend about your weight every day. I ask it, &#34;is my booty getting big?&#34; and step on like a fool so it can tell me, &#34;No, honey. You're as thin and beautiful as you were yesterday. And the day before. And the day before. And the day before that. No really. Exactly as thin and beautiful. Exactly. Exactly the same weight. To the ounce. You're holding a bowling ball now? Well, then that must mean that you're *losing* weight! Congratulations! Now go make me a sandwich.&#34;<br /><br />Sadly, I have found this scale to be incapable of registering more than one reading per rough pound of body mass. If you're 102 lbs, give or take, it will tell you you're 102.4 until you edge up another half a pound or so, and then you'll jump up to register as 103.6. Never 103.2, 103.4, 103.8, it only knows 103.6. Adjust your footing and you're mysteriously and miraculously at exactly the same 102.4 from the day prior. Take off shoes or heavy clothing or put down your gargantuan smartphone whose manufacturer specs clock at half a pound in its kevlar advanced bomb suit case and see no change on the display. Not even a fraction of a pound. Pick up your purse and discover that it will cycle through the single weight it knows for each one-pound increment until it settles on its half-hearted guess. Put your purse back down and it refunds all that weight to you, save for one pound that is maybe some sort of rounding error or restocking fee, I'm not sure. Step off and back on and you're at your &#34;original&#34; weight, presumably having burned off that pesky pound doing step aerobics on your scale in search of an accurate reading.<br /><br />Losing some weight? No you're not. Or maybe you are. It's a mystery. That 195.6 lb reading gotten by the second party tester you brought in to see if the scale would be more cooperative with another user will suddenly drop to 192.4, where it will stay until another pound or more is shed, and it will tell you then that he may or may not have moved into the next one-pound weight class. Or wait until he has a tantrum and shifts his left foot, at which point it will show another lost pound while mocking you under its breath.<br /><br />I know that accuracy isn't that big a deal or terribly reliable with home bathroom scales, but this one truly seems like it's not even trying and is outright incapable of registering anything but preprogrammed weights, one per pound. I have no idea what I weigh right this second, but I know my doctor's office and gym scales agree that this one is playing head games with me. Either that, or I am gaining and losing brain mass trying to compute mathematical and histographical averages all the time in an attempt to divine my true weight from the scale that lives in my bathroom.<br /><br />I gave it 2 stars because it looks nice and I suppose if you are just looking for a rough order of magnitude estimate of your weight, it will do the job.
Rating: 2 stars