Customer Reviews

Soehnle 63713 New York Body Balance Scale

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I ordered two of these scales. Both of them were way off, sometimes not working at all. I think they were defective, so this might be a slightly tainted review.

On the other hand, I did try a working Milano, which has the same feature set as this. It was working, but was extremely inaccurate. Giving different weights every time (off by 5-10 pounds).

I do not recommend these scales, although if they delivered what they promised, it would be a great scale.

Well I was excited to get a quality product Made in Germany for a price that was adequate for a product Made in Germany. What I got was "German engeneering" made in China. I always try to avoid at all cost buying electric or other high tech products made in China because my experience with two or three of them showed me that they just lack quality and break down all the time.

Performance is ok so far. I had some mismeasurements. The personal info entered can not be deleted without deleting the info for all persons saved. A few times the scale did not recognize me. It looks better on pictures than in reality.

I don't recomend buying this product. It is overpriced for the actual product you get.

If I had known this product was made in China I wouldn't have bought it. I am still debating if I should return it as shipping costs are high.

In short, very disappointed.

This scale seemed to work great for about the length of the warranty period. Then it started showing LO for battery replacement. Changing batteries only made it operate for about a week, and unreliably at that. Thinking maybe the new batteries were bad, I tried again to no avail. I'd love a scale that measures body fat, but this one isn't a good choice.

This did not really work for me very well with the body fat. I used it for a long time as a weight scale, but I have to use my toes to lift it up to turn it on before I get the weight. It sounds small, but I struggle with my weight, and I am not really patient for this type of thing. I ended up buying a book call "burn the fat, and build the muscle" that is really good. It suggested that the most important thing to measure is body fat, and recommend a simple device that pinches the fat in three places. That worked really well. I got down to 9% body fat. Then I go lazy, and I am up to 17% now. However, I started at 28%.

I did not find that the scale and the pinching device were very close to each other in the percentage.

Hope that helps.

I'm not sure what makes my scale different from the other reviewers, but I have been completely satisfied. It doesn't have the problem that many digital scales seem to have of giving different weight readings even if you step on it a second later. When I first purchased it I stepped on it several times in a row to make sure it would give a reliable reading. Each time it gave me the exact same reading down to the tenth of a pound.

The scale wasn't hard to program after reading the instructions. I love that it recognizes the user just by stepping on the scale. This scale has many great features. It remembers up to 4 users. Along with giving you your weight reading it also lets you know body fat percantage, water percentage, and muscle percentage. With all of these it tells you whether you are in the below normal, normal, or higher than normal range. At the end it also shows you how your readings have changed over the days, weeks, or months. You choose whether this last feature shows weight, body fat percentage, water percentage, or muscle percentage.

I would definitely purchase this scale again if I had it to do over. I will say

however, that I only paid half the normal price for it from a discount department store. I'm not sure I would have spent the $90 that it is listed on here for even though it is an amazing scale. That probably is just because I'm cheap though. I would highly recommend this scale to anyone looking for one that is extremely accurate and that has a few extra features.