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Scale accuracy

mariam825
mariam825 Posts: 3 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone, I have an issue with my scale, hoping to get some insight...
I have a digital beurer scale, the glass body analysis one. I know my weight is around 155 (just had a physical at the dr). The first time I step on the scale, it reads 120. I get off, get back on, now it says 170! I do this a couple more times, and each time it gives a wildly different number, no 2 ever the same. The scale has good reviews online, and up until this I never spent so much money on one so I'm a bit disappointed. Open to ideas and suggestions! Thanks in advance!

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    edited August 2016
    Sounds like you need new batteries or return it and get a new one.

    ETA: You are weighing on a flat surface? Not a carpeted flooring?
  • joans1976
    joans1976 Posts: 2,201 Member
    ^^^^
    Also someone told me once that if I had mine on a tile floor it might mis-read. Also make sure the batteries are in properly and pushed in all the way.
    Good luck!
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    replace the battery. Make sure its on a hard/level surface. If it still has issues, return/exchange it. You may have bought a dud. Even good products sometimes have bad units.
    mariam825 wrote: »
    Hi everyone, I have an issue with my scale, hoping to get some insight...
    I have a digital beurer scale, the glass body analysis one. I know my weight is around 155 (just had a physical at the dr). The first time I step on the scale, it reads 120. I get off, get back on, now it says 170! I do this a couple more times, and each time it gives a wildly different number, no 2 ever the same. The scale has good reviews online, and up until this I never spent so much money on one so I'm a bit disappointed. Open to ideas and suggestions! Thanks in advance!

  • mariam825
    mariam825 Posts: 3 Member
    The only 2 places in my apartment that are not carpeted are the bathroom (tile floors) and kitchen (vinyl). It is a vintage building, the floors are definitely uneven, but before I step on the scale I do make sure the scale isn't wobbly.
    I did buy it a year ago, so it likely is as simple as the batteries! I figured the display wouldn't come on at all if the batteries were dead.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    mariam825 wrote: »
    The only 2 places in my apartment that are not carpeted are the bathroom (tile floors) and kitchen (vinyl). It is a vintage building, the floors are definitely uneven, but before I step on the scale I do make sure the scale isn't wobbly.
    I did buy it a year ago, so it likely is as simple as the batteries! I figured the display wouldn't come on at all if the batteries were dead.

    Eventually it will not come on at all. Sounds like batteries.
  • monicaw44
    monicaw44 Posts: 71 Member
    just get another scale
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