These scales are beginning to annoy me now

@Asylum (47893)

Manchester, England

March 6, 2016 6:04am CST

I have a fairly philosophical outlook to life and can usually accept problems easily, even seeing the humour in it most times. However, the problems that I am having with a set of scales are testing even my bizarre sense of humour. When I realised that weighing a potential mail item to send overseas would be very worthwhile, I dug out the kitchen scales that I have not used before. The can be set to weigh in grams, which is ideal. My first obstacle was a flat battery, so I had to wait until the following day to go and buy some lithium batteries. On arrival home I took out the 2 batteries from the pack and dropped one, which I cannot find despite looking repeatedly for hours. This morning I put the one remaining battery into the scales, but still have a problem. The display shows ounces, fluid ounces and grams, but the mode button changes the current one from ounces to fluid ounces and back to ounces. I could still weight in ounces and convert, but there seems no way that the gram display can be accessed.

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@LadyDuck (502573)

• Italy

6 Mar 16

What a pain, it's a shame you cannot bring back the scales to the store. About the fallen battery, be careful not to step on it, you could fall.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

@LadyDuck That may be a good way to find it.

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@marlina (154103)

• Canada

6 Mar 16

Wise advice. I would definitively look and find that battery.

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@LadyDuck (502573)

• Italy

6 Mar 16

@marlina I know how dangerous small things are, even a few grains of rice can make you fall.

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

6 Mar 16

No toggle switch on the back or in the battery compartment to switch from "oz" to "g"?

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

No, the units are changed via a Mode button on the front, but for some inexplicable reason it keeps skipping the grams setting and cycling through the other options.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

@pgntwo Even it voted in favour of Bre4xit, we would still end up using grams now because the unit has become established.

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

6 Mar 16

@Asylum Just make sure you keep it chained to the kitchen worktop on 23-June then, as it's clear which way it wants the BREXIT vote to go ... !

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@kaka135 (14994)

• Malaysia

6 Mar 16

It seems like the kitchen scale has given you a lot of troubles. Hope you will eventually get your mail item weighted, and find the missing battery as well.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

I can always weigh the mail in ounces and do a quick mental conversion, but it would be better if I could access the gram setting and get a more accurate result.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

7 Mar 16

@kaka135 I can see the grams at the moment the scales are first switched on because the screen illuminates and displayes all four units for a moment. Then they reset and display the last units used and pressing the Mode button cycles the display through 3 of the units only.

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@kaka135 (14994)

• Malaysia

7 Mar 16

@Asylum Yes, it seems quite annoying when there should be a gram display too.

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@allknowing (153529)

• India

6 Mar 16

Cool it. What cannot be cured has to be endured. Your situation is not hopeless. You can still use a converter.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

These scales are doing this to me deliberately and I shall find a way to get my own back on them.

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

6 Mar 16

@Asylum The scales of justice shall prevail...

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@allknowing (153529)

• India

6 Mar 16

@Asylum I know why. You dumped them!!

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@kevin1877uk (36987)

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7 Mar 16

It might be worth buying new scales by the sounds of it.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

7 Mar 16

That has definitely crossed my mind and I may call in Argos today just to see what they have available. I can cope with using virtually any unit and applying a quick mental conversion, but it is much better to have the scales do the job they were designed to.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

7 Mar 16

@kevin1877uk I shall check their stock and try to weigh up which are the best offer.

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@kevin1877uk (36987)

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7 Mar 16

@Asylum I totally agree, I'm sure Agros will have some good scales in and maybe on offer.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

6 Mar 16

Time to get out the manual and read the instructions

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

The gram setting should accessed by scrolling through the list using the Mode button, but it skips that setting altogether.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

@just4him It is far too old to be returnable so I will just have to accept the fact.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

6 Mar 16

@Asylum Can you take it back and get a new one, or have you had it for a while and are just starting to use it? Maybe there's a number you can call for help with it.

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@AmbiePam (120909)

• United States

9 Mar 16

Bless your heart. It does everything but the one thing you need!

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

9 Mar 16

Yes, it would have been less annoying if it simply did not work.

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@marguicha (230350)

• Chile

7 Mar 16

I was raised in the kolps and grams and for me it is quite difficukt to make convertions. Fortunatly, now I can do it easily online, asking the web to, say, put chilean ésos to dollars or kilos into pounds. What really escapes me is the "stone" measure that England has.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

7 Mar 16

We only used the stone for a few situations, although we always weighed our self in stones. A stone was 14 lb, which would be a little over 6 kilogram.

@SIMPLYD (90717)

• Philippines

7 Mar 16

It is annoying indeed , discovering the problems as you go along .

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

7 Mar 16

The silliest part is that I was born in the days of imperial measures and prefer them. Nevertheless the Post Office uses metric, so that is what I require.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

6 Mar 16

sounds like you need new scales - hope converting will help for now

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

A quick mental conversion will be more than adequate for the time being, although it would be more practical to measure in grams initially.

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@Marilynda1225 (91130)

• United States

6 Mar 16

Sounds like that scale is working against you and not for you

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

They certainly are. I have had no use for these scales in over 2 years and now that I have they are offering me every unit of measure except the one that I actually want.

@Scindhia (1906)

• India

7 Mar 16

Its like Murphy's law. The one simple thing we wish for will never happen. In fact the opposite will happen

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

7 Mar 16

I certainly know Murphy's Law because it appears to have designed my life.

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@Daljinder (23193)

• Bangalore, India

6 Mar 16

Are you annoyed that something really beat your sense of humor??

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

I was probably more impressed that something could annoy me so much, which is quite an achievement.

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@Daljinder (23193)

• Bangalore, India

6 Mar 16

Then the scales need to rewarded with "hammer"

@Jeanniemaries (8237)

• United States

6 Mar 16

I had some very expensive scales that were always accurate when I was doing eBay and mailing all over the world but I left them behind when I moved to Florida, never really expecting to do much as far as packages or international. Now that I'm doing pocket letters, I'm taking each one to the post office (about 6 miles away) to put accurate postage on them. I'm making every effort to combine my trips with other errands. Fortunately the grocery is nearby as well as the the hairdresser, the beach, the gas station, Burger King.....

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

Oh yes, the weight would be critical on those due to the international nature. The mistake that I am trying to avoid is sending a foolish weight. For example, letters are charged at a certain amount up to 100 gram, after which the next price bracket covers letters from 100 gram up to 250 gram. Naturally it would be a waste to send a letter weighing 110 gram because I could post double that weight for the same price.

@celticeagle (189915)

• Boise, Idaho

6 Mar 16

First off, it sounds like you have a elf or demon of some type. Secondly if that has been laying around awhile it may not be working properly. Has it been stored near or in extreme heat or cold?

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Mar 16

It has not been used for a couple of years, which is most likely the problem.