Customer Reviews

Tanita HA 521-W Analog Bathroom Scale, White

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This is among the relatively cheap analog scales you can ever find online. Very handsome and neat. The color is white and the size is pretty compact.
Overall, the scale gives you similar results after you zero it right before your first use. Yet the spring inside is a little bit loose - it takes pretty long time for it to return to zero after you've stepped out of the surface, increasing the risk of the change of the initial reading from 0 to a few pounds more or less than it. In average, you have to rezero the scale every 7 or 8 readings...
Luckily, the adjusting device is handy and easy to control: the control is at the right hand side of the scale. Once you rezero it, the scale will give you more or less the same reading you got. Nice and useful scale for only $8!

The scale is off by 18 pounds. I compared it twice to my weight when I went to my doctor. It's fine if you are willing to do a little math every time you weigh yourself.

I've only had this scale for a short time, but so far so good. I've found that in order to get a scale that is perfect or near perfect you have to spend a boat load of money. As someone before has mentioned the one drawback to this scale is that you have to set it back to zero every so often. I specifically wanted to get an analog scale for this reason, with an inexpensive digital scale, which is what I had last, you can't reset it like you can an analog. This scale is a great buy, for only $10 how can you go wrong!?

this scale looked like a good deal and had many good reviews so i bought it expecting the best. when it arrived i unpacked it and immediatly hopped on after makeing sure it was at 0. the scale told me i wighed 170 lbs. give or take a few from clothes... i was extremely shocked! how could i weigh THAT much!! turns out the scale was off approx. 20 pounds 20 POUNDS!!

I purchased this scale thinking that an analog scale would give me a more accurate reading. Well maybe it does and maybe it doesn't can't really tell as you have to be within 6" of the dial to be reasonably sure what the weight is as from any further away it is almost illegible. There aren't enough pound numbers and way too many little lines that mean little from 5' ++ away. Needless to say disappointed. Too expensive to return so gave it away to someone who did not seek the accuracy I did.

I wanted a mechanical scale, with reading both in pounds and in kilos. This one foot the bill. Works great so far, reasonably accurate after checking against other fancier models. Will need to reset the zero after several uses, but the adjustment is really easy. Slightly thicker than I expected.

i guess it's cheap, but the dial rocks like crazy when you stand on it and shift your weight, so it's pretty hard to get anything more than a ~2-3 pound estimate. which is fine if you're not obsessive, but most people care about that increment....

this scale is just a basic scale but the price was right. It's well made and accurate on the weight.

This scale's data is about 8 pounds more than that from other scales. Fortunately, it's stable. As I only use it to monitor the change of my weight and I don't need accurate number, this scale is not bad for it's price.

How complex does a scale have to be? This one does the job, and it's not ugly, either.