Customer Reviews

Taylor 7532 Ultra Thin Glass Digital Scale (400lb capacity)

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Unreliable. Eats expensive batteries. Instructions not particularly informative. Website useless. I'm not spending my life troubleshooting a scale just because it looks cool. Back to the old trusted but rusted analog.

The styling of this scale is nice but most buy a scale for its functionality not its form. This scale would never read the same twice. It was overly sensitive to the point of not reading a steady weight unless you were absolutely still while it took a reading. I apparently could not stand still long enough for it to "lock in". My wife had the same difficultly. I would avoid this scale.

I purchased this Taylor 7532 electronic scale 5 months ago in August 08. Our family has attempted to use it daily, but we soon learned to keep the old (pretty variable) scales nearby and weigh on them, too, since the Taylor was unreliable. I suppose I was taken in by the pleasant design -- I kept thinking that a product this nice-looking must be backed by engineers and designers who know what they are doing.

The fact of the matter is that we read the sparse instructions many times, replaced the batteries, played with their position numerous times, tried using all kinds of flat surfaces including (a) a hardwood floor (b) a very flat board (c) different rooms (d) various combinations of other flat surfaces placed under the scale hoping to find a way to reduce the problems of (1) no reading at all (2) a reading of 8.8888 (that remains for hours) and other codes, none explained in the accompanying instructions (3) a weight of 00 (4) various weights that are more than 10 percent off and therefore obviously wrong. Even taking into consideration the instructions to step onto the scale twice to obtain a correct weight, the scale yields weights of approximately 3 pounds difference on successive tries (e.g. five minutes apart). We replaced the batteries with Radio Shack batteries.

However, on occasion for periods as long as a week, the scale has seemed to work properly, or nearly so. Otherwise I would have thrown it way months ago. That became the most annoying part, since due to that intermittent character of the problem, I have ended up devoting an inordinate amount of time to this basically worse-than-worthless
appliance.

Bottom line: if you love to tinker hopelessly with appliances which simply do not provide any kind of reliable or consistent performance, buy a Taylor Glass Lithium Electronic Scale 7532.

This scale is well designed for the most part. Its easy to clean, and works well. There's been some comments about the battery life in this unit. I've owned Taylor scales before which use the same batteries. I agree that they do seem to go through batteries fairly quickly, but 1 to 3 weeks seems to quickly. I've had mine for a month and have not had to change them yet. I weigh myself about once to twice a day, every day. Overall, I would probably buy this scale again if I could find it anywhere.

I have had this scale for about 5 months. It is incredibly easy to use, readable and helpful. With it, I KNOW when I have overinduged. If it were 30 intead of 40 dollars it would be a no brainer.

I got this scale with no reviews and I am very pleased..... I actually decided on this scale because Taylor overall has a good reputation. Also I am a believer in you get what you pay for. This scale has No extra bells and whistles and it is still decently expensive. And worth it! The only thing I might add is that I don't have anywhere to just leave it sitting flat out so when I stand it up against the wall and then take it out, my first weight is over by about 4 pounds (prob the weight of the scale) but I get on it for a second make it turn on then get off and it 0's out and works beautifully. I can stand on it in different positions and it only varies by .2-.4 of a pound which is way better than any other scale I have had. My last scale depending on the way you stand it could be a 3 pound difference in either direction. I would defiantly recommend this scale to anyone!

Update - I went to the Doctor yesterday and just out of curiosity, I weighed myself right before I left and it was dead on what I weighed at the Doctor's office. Personally I have never had a scale that would weigh the same as the doctor's office. This scale is truly impressive.

I purchased this scale in November and have had to replace the batteries twice already. The packaging claims an extra long battery life. I've found that weighing myself once a day, the batteries only lasted about 3 weeks. I'm hoping I just got a lemon.