Taylor 5599 440 Pound Tempered Glass Body Fat-Body Water Scale
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Customer Reviews of Taylor 5599 440 Pound Tempered Glass Body Fat-Body Water Scale
Customer Review: Very Useful Tool
Summary: 4 Stars
Needed to replace the 20 year old spring based scale I have been using most of my life, and decided the BFI analyzer would be a nice addtion.
The scale was easy to set up with profiles for all the users (height, age, and whether you are an "athlete") and looks and feels great. Never easy to determine accuracy, but based on the 3 or 4 scales I check regularly this seems to be reading very close to those.
Tested it out and was surprised that I came out at 27% BF. Most of the methods I have access to have variable accuracy as well (pinch test, BMI, etc.) but this is higher than any other reading I have seen. Even if the results are skewed in one direction, the scale is consistant and you can track your progress over time, just don't put too much faith in the reading it gives you.
Customer Review: Dead within 90 days - Stay away!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought one of these scales at Target. Was pretty useful for the time it lasted... I'm not entirely sold on the concept of detecting your body fat/water %/muscle % through solely stepping on the measuring plate, but I suppose it is okay information to "know."
However, three months in, and the scale has stopped responding. I can turn it on just fine (stepping on the measuring plate, or pressing the "SET" button on top to choose a pre-defined profile), but as soon as the scale is ready to measure, stepping on the plate does not trigger any reaction - it stays at 0.0. Pretty bad quality control, and judging from the number of disappointed/angry customers here, I'm not the only one.
Lesson learned. I'll get my next scale here AFTER reading reviews.
Customer Review: Looks nice, functions poorly
Summary: 2 Stars
This is probably the nicest looking scale in within a $100 range. A lot of company uses the bathroom I keep this in, and I was not afraid to leave it out.
But in terms of useability this little guy is not a winner. The buttons are very difficult to use. I often had to pick the scale up and click the buttons with my hand just to start it up every day.
Finally the battery life is terrible. I'm talking 2 months. It's just unacceptable.
It functioned alright, the scale seemed to read a little light, but not by much. And if I was careful about having clean feet the body fat readings seemed consistent, though definitely low (I had often still had wet feet, so this probably affected it).
I cannot reccomend this item, however.
Customer Review: CRAP.
Summary: 1 Stars
As a lot of people have mentioned about this scale in previous reviews, mine "worked" fine in the beginning, but was never what I would call accurate. Instructions have been followed to a T, batteries switched, hard, level surface, the whole nine. Being inaccurate would ALMOST be fine if it were CONSISTENTLY inaccurate, but, alas, it didn't accomplish that either. Compared to the gym scale, it would go anywhere from a pound of to 4-6 lbs off. A few months after purchase, this scale began to not work when stepped on, and then would only work if you stepped on the right side first. Now it doesn't even show an actual weight. Instead, it the numbers roll up and down in a range of 6-8lbs without stopping.
I would definitely not recommend this product.
Customer Review: Never worked well
Summary: 1 Stars
This scale seems like a good deal, but almost instantly, it started being finicky and showing that there was around 5lbs of weight on the scale randomly when no one/nothing is on it. I think it's the design of the legs, and that they stick, but I'm really not sure.
Regardless, I was looking for a reliable way to keep track of weight loss and now I feel like I'm constantly guessing whether I need to subtract 4.6lbs or whatever it decides to read that day, or whether the reading when the scale does happen to come up at 0 is even right. Not what I was hoping for.
In all fairness, I have not tried to return it, so I'm not sure if this one is just defective but I really wasn't hoping for an involved process in getting a scale.