Problems with Taylor bathroom scales
I prefer reporting about products I’ve found that really do me some good or save some money or something nice. But when I find a product that just doesn’t seem to be worth buying, I feel I should share that too so you can benefit from my experience. Of course, as with products I’m comfortable recommending, the fact that something didn’t work for me doesn’t mean it won’t work for you. I’m just telling you my experience.
About two months ago, I went to a doctor for a routine appointment and her scales said I weighed less fully clothed than my scales at home said I’d weighed that morning without a stitch of clothing. I’d thought I’d been gaining weight despite my best efforts, but no – my bathroom scales were just dying. (Actually, it may have just been the lithium battery, but there was no way to replace them!)
I bought a Taylor scale to replace them. I liked the display, and the numbers it gave me seemed accurate (going by the doctor’s scale for comparison). But sometimes the display would come on, and other times it wouldn’t. Then I came in one morning and found the scales had come on all by themselves, and wouldn’t go off. (They finally went off when the clerk taking my return put them up on her counter.)
I took that scale back and bought another Taylor in its place – a different model. The exact same problems occurred: sometimes it wouldn’t come on at all, other times it came on of its own accord and stayed that way for hours.
Two different models from the same company having identical problems was enough to convince me that maybe Taylor scales just aren’t very well made. Has anyone else had any experience, good or bad, with this brand?
I’m now trying out an EatSmart that got good reviews on Amazon. So far, it gives me the same weight consistently no matter how many times I shift it a few inches on the floor – most scales I’ve had in the past do not.
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Posted in Do It Yourself on January 8, 2010
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Oh I am not surprised to read a blog post like this. We purchased a Taylor scale from Costco. $40.00 The first one had a dying battery and was weighing us all kinds of different weights each time we would step on it. So, after pricing out the batteries at 11 CAD dollars, I decided I would return for a new scale. Brought the new one home and 3 weeks later, battery starts dying. Went out and purchased new batteries, duracell ones.. within 3 weeks the scale was acting weird.
Glad to hear other people are having problems with their digital Taylor scale. They are the worst I’ve had 2 in the last 2 weeks and they are erratic at best. They work great for about a week and then error messages, weight way up or way down by as much as 80-100lbs different. Done everything they say to fix them..but still nothing. I’ll never buy another one again and if I see someone buying one I’ll let them know my problems with it.