SalterMax Digital Bathroom Scale – Supersize LCD Display, 250 kg Capacity, Large Platform, Easy Read LCD Display, Carpet Feet & Batteries Included, Kg/lbs, Instant Readings, Weight Measurements

Seems to be giving accurate readings, well at least I hadn’t gained any weight since my old scales packed up so I assume it’s right! Clear display and easy to see the reading without my glasses on. Looks nice and easy to wipe clean. Does everything I need without the extortionate price tag of some of the other brands.

For years I've been wanting to get some digital scales, but hesitated as my bathroom is pretty damp and cold, so thought anything electronic wouldn't survive long in there. I spotted that these Salter scales come with "carpet feet" and was intrigued, since it sounded like I could put them in the bedroom instead - any mechanical scales I've had have been terribly inaccurate on carpet (and not that good on hard floors either!). I thought it would be great to have a legible display (these have a very tall, large font) and that backlighting would help a lot - and it does! The carpet feet are four hard plastic, hollow round feet (larger than the round rubber ones built into the scales) and their thin edges are supported by moulded-in wheel type "spokes" so the idea is that they sink into the carpet pile and make contact with the floor beneath, without pressing on the bouncy carpet pile. To attach they just press on, over the smaller rubber feet, and work well as long as the carpet's not too thick/bouncy and doesn't have too long a pile.A tiny button under the scales needed just one press to switch it to stones and pounds (I'm THAT old!) and it even reads in quarters of pounds too, so nice and accurate. The readings are pretty consistent too. You simply step onto the scales and they automatically weigh, always using a blueish white backlight for the dark grey on pale grey LCD display. The figures flash a couple of times after a two seconds or less, which shows when the display locks in a weight (it waits and varies first, to iron out any fluctuations) and it maintains the final fixed weight display for a few seconds after you get off, before automatically turning off. If you want to recalibrate it, you just put one foot on the centre of the scales, wait for the display to come on and then take your weight off it, so that it reads zero, and let it turn itself off again after a few seconds - that's it, recalibrated.The main body of the scales is a slightly green-tinted sheet of glass with slightly bevelled edges, painted from the underside in white, with a slightly-less-discreet-than-ideal black stripe across it near the edge nearest to you, with the Salter logo in the middle of that. At less than 25 GBP these were great value, and even included the required three AAA batteries.These are purely scales - no body-fat analysis or anything like that. I knew this and didn't need those facilities. One thing I learned during my research was that many of those fancier scales with extra functions use a small electric charge to do their analysis of body fat etc., passing it through the body, and that people with pacemakers (for example) need to ensure that the ones they buy are compatible with those. Probably most are (and as I say, scales-only units like this one don't do this at all anyway) but as it's something that I would never even have thought of, I thought it may help someone to know that.I've been weighing myself loads of times a day since I got these - they're so good that it has given me the motivation to actually do something about my weight at long last, and seeing how my efforts are going helps no end! Still on the first set of batteries too, two months after purchase, despite have used the scales literally hundreds of times.

Handy size, feels secure when standing on scales with bare feet, excellent display, which was one of our main reasons for buying new scales, and easy to switch from imperial to metric. That said, they seem to be weighing about 300 grams heavier than our other scales, and now we're not sure which set is correct!

Excellent. Slim scales big display easy to use

Best scales we’ve had. They don’t wobble and large view of weight helps as well!

So pleased & surprised, so sleek, stylish, large numbers very visible, exceptional black Salter Scales, used regularly with no problems at all.Very easy to use, a little heavy but so solid to stand upon, large numbers shown are very easy to see and very precise weight shown.Great purchase, excellent quality at a great price, guaranteed for a few years, Salter Scales have an extremely good reputation!My order arrived quickly, scales packaged really well, unpacked scales, really impressed!Thank you Amazon, another great purchase!

On time every time so far!Scales work fine with large clear numbers that read the weight and display the weight within a couple of seconds, look smart as well.Recommend

I had to return this product as it did not weigh correctly on carpet - I bought this scale as it was supposed to work on carpet and hard floors. I calibrated as suggested on instuctions, this gave diffrent weight on carpet and hard floor, flashing in and out of weight and did not lock out to a fixed weight- which proved to be the same with human weight, flucturating up to 1 stone less difference on carpet, which is no good when you are watching your body weight prior to surgery . I have always used Salter scales in my home as I have found they are the most acurate on the market - I read the reviews - mostly good and some bad and that influenced my purchase, so I have no idea why these wouldn't work. It was easier to send them back for a full refund in the returns period and get my old Salter scales out (that I use on carpet). So dissapointed, as they looked great.