I was thinking of picking up this one: https://cgi.ebay.com/40KG-Digital-Fis...item3a61bda150
$4.89 shipped is a damn good price, anyone know if this is complete junk or should I pull the trigger?

i use a Park tools bike scale.

I have this one and it's great! I recently weighed a bike box to ship, and it weighed in at 15.8 lb. Then at the FedEx counter, their calibrated (supposedly) scale confirmed it!

Thanks!

I bought one as well, but it only worked for about 3 weeks then died. But it was cheap.

I have a luggage scale that works well enough for me.

Scale? If I can pick it up with one hand it's light enough for me. Weight doesn't matter. Strength and conditioning matter.

If I'm shipping, I've got the setup at work.

It should be good enough and better than most springed fish scales.
I also bought a digital luggage scale and it was also confirmed this year by many airport digital scales to the tenth of a pound. coincidentally, I just bought (last night!) a flat, square digital kitchen scale yesterday made by "Polder" from Costco. Weighed all sorts of component stash last night and it confirmed most weights I previously got using the luggage scale but it's so much easier to use.

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I have some from Harbor Freight. My wife does a lot of ebay-ing (kids clothes) so we needed a scale for shipping. The fish hook one has lasted ~5 years, and the flat one needed to be replaced after almost 5 years. Pretty good and cheap.

For small things weighing more then a pound I use an old fish scale. For bikes I use an old market scale.
In keeping with the C&V thing.

For bikes, if I can lift it and carry it up the escalator at Downsview, Station it's light enough to ride. If shipping something, I take it to the carrier and get them to weigh it.

Bought the Park scale but don't like the lack of a significant digits of .0. Would like one more and have grams instead of kg. I will likely buy another one for lighter parts to get the higher significant digits.

I have the exact model. Mine is within an oz from my local post office scale. I use it to weight luggage too when I travel. For a 50 lbs luggage the different is off by a few oz from the ticket counter scale. The battery last forever too.

If I am weighing a bike I go low tech. First I jump on my digital readout bathroom scale and note that weight, then again holding the bike. The difference is the bike's weight.

I always liked G major......

+4 I have that exact scale and it works well.

I've got a Park DS1 and a Toledo Digital table top scale that goes to 150lbs.

I did that before I got my hanging scale. Very inaccurate, and inconsistent.