Taylor 5596G Body fat-Body Water Scale with Bone and Muscle Mass Features
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Product Reviews of Taylor 5596G Body fat-Body Water Scale with Bone and Muscle Mass Features
Product Review: Difficult to use
Summary: 2 Stars
You're probably wondering, how can a scale be difficult to use? Good question! I wanna know why it's difficult to use, too! I don't really trust the weight it's giving me because it changes. But it's not like it changes every time I hop on it. For example, the first time I used it, I was excited to try it out, so I weighed myself in my clothes. I then took off my clothes and weighed myself, and it gave me the exact same weight. I had to pee, so I did that and weighed myself again...same number! I kept trying to get the number to change (partially because it was telling me I was fatter than I wanted to be). The number did change after a minute or so, but I hadn't done anything else to make myself lighter. It just seemingly arbitrarily changed and then was stuck on the new number, even after I put my clothes back on.
I don't really like the fat measurements mode, either. Everything flies across the screen relatively quickly, so you have to have the placement and sequence of all the measurements on the screen memorized or you'll miss it...not very user friendly.
Yeah, I pretty much hate this thing and never use it. I should've returned it.
Product Review: Didn't work properly
Summary: 2 Stars
This scale measured my weight just fine. That's great, but it's supposed to measure body fat too. I tried it about 20 different times and there was only one time that it was able to actually give me a reading. Every other time it gave me an error. My body weight is average and I did everything it said to do in the manual. The strange thing is, if I changed my profile from male to female but left everything else the same (such as height), it was able to give me a reading. I suspect the figures were wrong in that case, though, as it uses your sex to do its calculations.
Even if it would have worked properly there are better designed scales out there. The numbers on this display are tiny, cycle quickly, and only are shown 3 times before the unit shuts off. If you get off the scale to get a better look at the numbers the scale shuts off immediately. There is no memory for recalling the figures later.
Product Review: NICE SCALE
Summary: 5 Stars
SCALES SEEM TO BE ACCURATE ON THE WEIGHT PART, DON'T REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER STUFF YET. THEY SEEM TO BE A LITTLE FLIMSY SO I STEP ON THEM LIGHTLY. THEY LOOK NICEProduct Review: inconsistently consistent
Summary: 2 Stars
We got this scale when my husband began weight watching. He thought our old scale (also a Taylor) was inconsistent and he's perfectly happy with this one. My experience is the exact opposite!
If I get on this scale 3 (or 5 or 13) times in a row, it will give me the exact same weight. Great, right? Wrong! This weight has been up to 4 pounds more or less than what it gave me just 2 hours before. For the past week, my amusement has been what will the new high-tech scale say about me. LOL! The body fat measure has also varied by up to 2% in the course of a day. It has gotten to where, if I feel like a game of scale roulette, I'll get on this new scale... but if I want to know how much I weigh, I dig out the old one.
And if that's not enough fun, you can use it to wake a soundly sleeping spouse! Checking your weight alone is silent, but when you check the other things (body fat, etc.) the device emits a shrill beep that is loud enough to wake someone in the next room.
So why rate it a 2 instead of a 1? First, my husband is very happy with it. (He has a theory that it works better for heavier people. Uh huh. Right.) Second, it is a very good looking scale.
Product Review: don't be afraid to return but might be an OK product
Summary: 1 Stars
When I opened the box, I thought, "is this used?" The front had wear and the inside of the battery cavity was scratched up. It had a nice look though and didn't seem nightmarish to clean or store (it's pretty light). You will need a 9v battery to get it operational.
Being willing to live with a few dings, I tried it anyway and while I enjoyed seeing I was 20lbs lighter than my other, accurate scale thought(which I wanted to replace so I could get body fat readings), the other controls didn't work. And, as other readers pointed out, even with good vision, it can be hard to read.
So, I'm returning it. The basic product might be great but I am pretty sure the vendor/Amazon shipped me a previously sold product that was returned for not working. And if not, I still couldn't characterize this as accurate, much as I'd like to be 20 lbs lighter. This whole transaction was annoying, tedious and not eco-friendly.