Omron Body Fat Monitor and Scale
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Customer Reviews of Omron Body Fat Monitor and Scale
Customer Review: Wish I had seen this when I bought the HBF-400
Summary: 5 Stars
Bio-electrical impedance fat % measurements can be totally inaccurate if you use only a hand-held device or just a foot-to-foot body fat scale like the HBF-400. Since electricity takes the shortest path through your body, hand-held devices really only measure your upper body fat, and foot-to-foot ones only measure your lower body fat. With the HBF-400 I get a readout of 25% body fat, which I know for a fact is way off. My body fat is between 15-20%, I had it measured at the gym. In order to get an accurate reading from the HBF-400 I have to bend down, lift one heel off the scale, and place two fingers on the spot your heel is supposed to go. Doing so gives me a readout of 17.5%. I may have to go ahead and buy this HBF-500 at some point as it is clearly superior, using hand AND foot contacts to measure your entire body at once. Maybe Amazon will take the HBF-400 back if I complain about it's shoddy performance.Customer Review: It broke - and they won't help you.
Summary: 1 Stars
The scale looks nice, and yes, its got kind of a nice feature set. But mine broke after only six months. Put in new batteries, nothing happens. No problem, right? its got a 1-year warrantee! Sucker. I called the company to get some help. They were brusque and borderline rude, accusing me of not knowing how to work it. I was at work, but they said I'd need to call them from home with the scale and to go out and buy four brand new batteries and put them into the unit while they were talking with me on the phone. Hey, I know how to put batteries into a scale, okay? The kicker was that if they signed off on that part, I'd have to pay to ship the scale crosscounty and back!! By the time I did that, it would almost be the cost of a new scale. No wonder they offer a "warrantee". Some customer service. I just trashed it.
All in all, a terrible experience - crappy product and crappy, weasel service.
Customer Review: Maybe I'm judging too quickly
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the second BF scale I have used but the first Omron. The previous one had 4 buttons that you could push with your foot for each user's predefined settings this one only has one and then you have to use your finger to select the user (2 clicks). NOT COOL.
I am currently slightly over 6'2" and work out on a daily basis. For the 2 days I have owned this scale here are my readings at the same time:
Monday May 24, 2010 8:00 am Weight: 200.8 BF: 27 BMI: 25.4
Tuesday May 25, 2010 8:00 am Weight: 196.4 BF: 26.3 BMI: 24.9
Does this seem wrong to anyone else?
To play around with this I took 4 readings and my weight ranged from 196.0 to 196.4. I guess that isn't too bad but for the BMI and BF% to be so off is a little unnerving. I will keep this for another week before I decide what to do with it.
Customer Review: very inaccurate fat monitor
Summary: 2 Stars
the fat monitor on this scale is awful.We bought this earlier this year as part of a get in shape resolution. Both spouse and I weight lift-me mostly for toning, but he has big muscles.
I just had my body fat caliper tested at the local university, and have also used 2 different measuring methods. I come in at 22% (41 y.o female)in all methods. the Omron has me at 33.9 %. lol. I wear a size 2-3 in pants. My husband is 49 y.o and is 16% body fat but Omron has him at 37% which I believe is obese. We are both in the "fitness" range for our gender and age, so this thing is a joke.
The scale part is/was accurate. I have crossed checked it with doctor scales. However recently it has been less so. you can get on 3x in a row and get different weights. I am hoping it is just the battery...
Customer Review: It helped me loose 25 lbs
Summary: 3 Stars
Of course, I can't compare it with the one my nutritionist has, but it did help me track weight, metabolism etc. over a period of one year. I used it on a weekly basis and the results were pretty consistent. Consistence was more important to me than accuracy because I was following trends during my weight loss adventure. But consistency would be gone whenever I moved the scale from it's original place, sometimes even if I just rotated it - it would give slightly different reading.
It's finally broken, two years after I bought it, the display does not show all the digits anymore, but I'm not surprised, the wiring in the handle (where the display is) has been under pretty big strain thanks to my regular weekly pulls. But I'm not fat now, so I can handle the handle :)