Customer Reviews

Sportline Walking Advantage 240 Econo Stopwatch

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I was looking for a good stopwatch to help me with my training and figured I would give this inexpensive product a go. It was fairly simple to set and it worked well until I noticed that the clock was falling behind. I reset it and slowly it fell behind again. I went and bought a new battery and it still fell behind. I am looking at it right now after reseting it for the last time a couple of weeks ago and it is almost 15 minutes behind. With the clock being so off, it makes me wonder how accurate the other modes are. I either recieved a shody stopwatch or some reconfiguring needs to be done by the manufacturer.

Update 09/02/2006:

Was cleaning out my desk and came upon my stopwatch(don't ask me why I still have it). I was delt another hard blow when I looked at the clock again. It hasn't fallen behind this time. No, instead it is twenty minutes fast. I am incredibly disturbed by this. I believe I will go lie down and try to forget about this Oh So traumatic experience.

In the instruction manual for this stopwatch, it says, "Chime is ON when dashes appear above display. Chime is OFF when no dashes appear."

Unfortunately, the instructions are lying. The alarm on this watch will go off, regardless of dash situation. There is absolutely no way to turn off the alarm. If you are there to turn the alarm off at the same time every day, then this watch is a decent purchase. Everything else on it works well.

The Sportline240 is pretty SIMPLE to use even a child knows how! I guess some people aren't smart enough to get it, but as for others "BUY IT!" I have one that was given to me as a gift, and definitely appreciated since... for two years still working well. I never had ANY problem with chimes, or alarms what so ever. Overall I'll give it A+ for Simple & Good Enough.

This is such a great stopwatch. It is so much fun to play with. The timing is incredible, and has features such as a clock and a calender. It is a very easy using stopwatch and I love it!

Its pretty awesome for if you want something cheap to go and time runs or whatever. But when I bought it, I didn't realize that there is no off function. There are alarms and hourly beeps that you can turn off but it is never clear whether or not they actually are.

I was able to slip the tab that separated the battery from the circuitry in the packaging back into place, which is the only way to turn it off (besides removing the battery). So now that the annoying beeps are out of the picture, I think I will be pretty happy with it (at least until I lose the tab)

I don't know how a company can sell such utter crap. Hit a button and it clicks twice (starts and stops).... now I have to bang it against something hard to get the LED to display. This company does not deserve a penny of ours!

I use the stopwatch primarily for timing student presentations. I haven't had to change the battery once in over 5 years. Amazing!

The stopwatches lost their battery life within 1-2 weeks. They constantly went off for no reason and it was not very easy to use. The ones that didnt die, served their purpose.