Weight Watchers WW-11D Portable Precision Electronic Scale
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Customer Reviews of Weight Watchers WW-11D Portable Precision Electronic Scale
Customer Review: The most accurate scale I've ever owned
Summary: 5 Stars
This scale is simply the best I've ever owned. My needs were quite simple.... I want to jump on a scale and get an accurate reading of my weight. I didn't need any of the extra mumbo-jumbo body mass index stuff; just a simple scale that has consistant accurate readings. This scale does it every single time.
I've tested the accuracy by obtaining both my weight and my mom's weight 5 minutes prior to our doctors appointments. As I reside in a small town, the doctors office is only four minutes away so I could get readings here at home and compare them quickly to the one's from the doctors certified professional scale. I've since did this three times now and this scale is 100% accurate every time. I've also tested it another way too..... by getting my weight and then checking it again in a few minutes to see if there is any variation to subsequent readings. And again this scale is 100% reliable every time.
I never knew how handy the carry handle would come in. It's quite nice because I store the scale in an upright position out of the way, then put it on the tile floor in the bathroom. That handle actually comes in quite handy for that. The toe-tap is excellent; a simple tap of your toes and the scale turns on; calibrates itself to 00.0 in about two seconds; then you jump on and obtain your weight.. very simple. And of course the large digital numeral display is easy to read too. I don't have to bend way over and squint to see it.
All in all this scale is very accurate and simple to use. It does have a save/recall button for remembering your last five weights but I haven't tried that feature yet as I don't need it. Luckily I still have my memory as those "pre-senior" years are coming on faster than I'd like!
I highly recommend this scale; a good value and perfect accuracy every time.
Customer Review: Very Sensitive to Floor Contours
Summary: 3 Stars
Both the reviewer who loved this scale and the one who said it was highly inconsistent are right.
I've had this scale for about two weeks and have done a lot of experimenting with it. Some days it seems to give me perfectly consistent readings, varying only by 0.2 pounds in either direction. Other days, I can weigh myself six times and get six different answers covering a range of about a pound.
What I've found is that the scale is extremely sensitive to the countour of the floor beneath it. Because it uses only a single load cell, located near the geometric center of the underside of the scale, it makes a huge difference whether the floor beneath it is perfectly flat or not. An uneven floor can cause tipping, put more of your weight on one side than on the other, or give a low reading if the load cell itself happens to fall into a small "valley" between higher ridges that could support the outer edges of the scale.
If you use the scale on a carpeted floor, all bets are off! A hard, flat, bare floor works the best.
By moving the scale around to different places in my bathroom, I was finally able to get reasonable and consistent readings. Finding that exact same spot again every morning isn't always easy, though.
It also makes a difference where you stand on the scale, especially if your floors (like mine) are old and "bumpy".
So, yes, the scale itself is as accurate as the manufacturer claims. But no, you might not get that kind of accuracy from it if you don't have a flat enough floor to use it on.
Customer Review: Six months of nonsense.
Summary: 1 Stars
I've owned this scale for about 6 months, and barely used it until about a month ago. I very quickly realized what other people have pointed out- it weighs differently every time. It took me a while to figure out that to get the best reading, I would have to have it sit on a single tile on my bathroom floor, then to stand straight looking ahead, with my feet in the center every time. And even then, I would get different weights every time I stood on it- if it were just within a pound, I wouldn't mind- but I get fluctuations of up to 10-15 pounds! I began to chart my weight as best I could, and did find that as I lost weight, the fluctuation would move lower and lower. But to have to jump through such hoops for a scale is ridiculous. I don't know if it is because it is digital or not- it is my first. I am not on Weight Watchers or anything, so I don't care about brand name or anything. I just wanted a cheap bathroom scale. But this is a ridiculously terrible piece of crap. To top it all off, last night I tried it out and the screen suddenly flashed ERROR and now it doesn't work. Is it a battery problem? I have no idea. But I think I'd rather spend the money on a new scale rather than invest in a new coin battery and keep using this junk. Please please please believe me- buy something else, you'll be glad that you did.Customer Review: Lol, never reviewed a scale before, but this was horrid!
Summary: 1 Stars
I love this scale because when I went for my physical I was way less than I thought. This scale will vary randomly in weight by massive amounts. I gained a pund and a half bywalking around doing chores for four hours with out even water. I picked up my cat who is rather big and lost a pound. Now the scale seems to pick one weight and stick with it for long periods of time. If you try to reset it the scale picks random weights. This would be a great scale for a person on a calorie diet...you would never know if you were losing pounds or not. This is a bad scale for just having, because I have wasted so much of my time doing fun little experiments to see what it will do next. I even wrote this review. I should have returned this when I got it, but I never used it enough to realize the problem until the physical for a job showed my scale was off by ten pounds or so (turns out the best diet is using a scale that works).Customer Review: Update on "Better readings from a Magic 8 Ball"
Summary: 2 Stars
Update: I replaced the Weight Watcher's scale the highly regarded $54 Tanita scale. Surprisingly, it gives the same initial reading as the el cheapo Weight Watchers scale. Neither scale can discriminate incremental weight change when I step back on the scale with a 1, 2, or 3 pound workout weight but the Tanita is considerably less inaccurate for this test. All said, I feel better relying on the Tanita.
This thing is driving me nuts. Once it anchors a reading it won't budge from that number regardless of drinking 16 oz. of water (1 lb) or the reverse. I tried measuring its accuracy with a 10 lb plate in my arms. It was off by .2 lbs. That translates into an error of 2 lb per hundred pound of body weight. That's pretty much useless for self-motivation. With a 25 lb plat in my arms, it was off by .6 lbs or 2.4 lbs per 100 lbs. of body weight. Maybe I should get one of those carnival machines.