- Heavy-duty, portable digital scale weighs items up to 100 lbs (45 kg)
- Built-in wrap-around handle allows you to carry the scale to heavy packages, not vice-versa
- Detachable LCD screen for convenient hand-held or wall-mounted viewing
- Convenient hold, tare and automatic shut-off functions
- Powered by USB cable (included), AC adapter (included) or 3 AAA batteries (not included)
If you are looking for a new scale, grab this one, you will not be let down. I would have paid 200 for this. If they ever come out with a bigger platform version for over 100 lbs I will buy it in a heart beat.
This scale, My DYMO 450 turbo label printer and my MacBook Pro, I can post new item to eBay, weigh and print postage and get my items on the way while not being tied to my desk.Before you read the one "Perfect" review, please read mine. I was very happy to find this scale to work with my Endicia Account and my Dymo LabelWriter 4XL. Upon arrival I shipped my first package. When we took the package to the U.S. Post Office, they weighed the package and declared that it was 5.6 more ounces and would cost more money to ship. This defeated the purpose of purchasing and printing postage. So I called Dymo and their customer service was very nice and after over an hour on the phone they told me that the scale must be defective and will be replaced. So I received a new one today, and the new scale is exactly the same. I was told by Dymo to use weights from a gym as a constant to weigh on the scale. When I put 40 lbs on the old scale and the new scale and they both displayed 39 lbs. This is totally unacceptable to be 1lb off from the actual weight. So when I use this scale it will always print the wrong postage. The manual says the fluctuation is +-.4lb but it is more in some cases. Dymo should really produce a more accurate scale, especially if you are using it connected to a computer through USB and using the Endicia software. For our company, this scale is totally unusable. I am quite surprised that Dymo would put out a product that does not display the proper weight. Save yourself the trouble and get another scale.Despite what the description says about the scale, it will not work for First Class mail parcels. According to DYMO's phone support team, the scale will not weigh anything under 1 pound. The first class weight limit is 13 ounces. Other than that, the scale works OK. We're using it for heavier packages, but was very disappointed that it didn't perform as advertised.Dymo says this scale is accurate to +/0.4 lbs OK. They are honest and I trust them on that I own a lot of Dymo equipment and it works the designed purpose, nothing else.
That means if I weight an object that is actually 1.5 lbs the scale may read 1.1 or 1.9 lbs a 0.8 lb range (+/0.4 lbs). They aren't lying here that's what the scale does.
So, if you are planning on squeezing UPS for 0.5 lb of freight you are out of luck with this scale it does not have the accuracy.
If I were using it to weight UPS packages I would add 0.4 lbs to each package chump change in UPS costs, but if that's your profit margin then spend more money on a scale like $300 for a +/0.1 scale but it would probably eat up your year's profit....
Resolution is not the same as accuracy. If a yardstick is graduated in 1/64 inch over 36 inches and is made of wood, would you trust it to measure to 1/64 inch? Not likely. That's resolution 1/64" but the accuracy is probably 1/8".
Same goes for a scale except Dymo tells you what the accuracy is: +/0.4 lbs.
Most measurement devices display more resolution than the absolute accuracy of the instrument. If you are planning on working within the resolution of the device you need to spend more on the device in most cases a lot more so eat your cake or buy bread you can't have both at the same time.
wb/sixscrewsThe scale is not accurate and nothing else matters.
After a few weeks in our shipping station, we got enough weird readouts that we started testing it and sure enough, it's not precise, particularly at the low end. Anything under 5 pounds is highly suspect, with fluctuations of more than 2 pounds in about 25% of our tests. I don't think the scale is broken, per se. It's working as intended. Just not very well.
In other words, not appropriate for shipping.
EDIT: Dymo is sending a replacement at their expense. I'll update if that works out.


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