Portable scales for in shop weighing

[lightfantastic]

Can someone suggest where i could find a .small portable scale ,preferably hanging type,metric,range a few grams to several kgs ,economical . The reason, most shops either dont know the weight of what they sell or often tell you the wrong weight .

[Puddle Duck]

I got one similar to this off flee bay :

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/20g-40Kg-Digital ... 3a5461b49f

Search for hanging or fishing scales and there are many choices shouldn't have to pay more than $10-$20 AUS including postage

For more accurate say 1gm to 3-5kg search for postage or jewelry scales

[lightfantastic]

Great ,thanks P D for the clues

[Franco]

Be careful with fish scales. A mate of mine bought me one , it never seems to give the same weight twice.
(not the same one as in the above link...)
Franco

To clarify my comment.
My fish scale is not accurate, neither was the one that my mate bought for himself.
The point is that because it is "digital" it may give the impression that is spot on, it isn't. So test yours...

[ninjapuppet]

Last year, I got the same one that puddle duck recommended, also from those sellers! haha.

i didnt expect much for a few bucks, but surprisingly, mine are spot on! I have confirmed 10 items on them with 3 other digital kitchen scales. items ranged from 400 grams to 30 kg and were pretty spot on. I bought it mainly for overseas trips to check if i'm getting cheated by those chinese sellers when i buy goods weighed by the grams. its also handy when i'm packing for the planes and travel budget airlines because to go just 1kg over means $$$

only problem is that display only goes to 2 decimal points, so its only really accurate to measure things in multiples of 10 grams. mine weighs 90 grams with batteries.

[Robatman]

was checking out DX ( as i often do!!) and came across this. No idea of the accuracy but for $10 might be worth it.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.35716

I have had heaps of transactions from these guys- mainly torches and batteries/ charger etc. No problem other than they often take 4 weeks to arrive.

Robert

[Lindsay]

Maybe shops could have their own scales for a prospective buyer to weigh stuff ? However could these be trusted, or is my paranoia showing?

[Wolfix]

I want to bump this back up because I am looking for a recommendation for brand of luggage scales. I want something that gives me accuracy to at least 5g, 1g if possible. I don't care how much they cost but they must be accurate and available to buy online.