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Digital scales have been sold in various forms for about twenty years. Initially, only a small handful of companies made them, but these days you can't swing a stick without hitting one. Mostly these newer scale manufacturers are smaller, lesser-known companies that are saturating the digital scale marketplace... to the detriment of the consumer.

That's not entirely true; there is an upside. Added competition for the digital scales market and lesser quality means cheap prices, and of course, consumers like lower priced scales. These bargain scales come about as a natural result of greater competition. And the older, manufacturers of high-quality digital scales such as Detecto are forced to consider lower prices in order to stay in business. As a result, their operating margins erode, and the high-quality digital scales that once dominated the market end up occupying a much smaller percentage of the digital scales market.

The downside for the great digital scales makers, as is so often the case with precision equipment markets facing a flood of low-cost low-quality competition, is the systematic lowering of expectations for consumers, as more and more of the inexpensive, or "cheap" digital scales end up raking in the dough.

Over time, of course, the higher quality digital scales regain momentum as word travels about the relative lack of quality people experience with the lower-cost digital scales alternatives. It is an uphill battle to educate consumers about exactly why high-quality, digital scales from a company like Detecto warrants spending a little more of their budget today in order to obtain a high-quality and longer-lasting product.

Doctors typically know all about the importance of having a high quality digital scale. The home user or fitness buff who may not realize the importance of buying high-quality digital scales.

A friend of mine recently bought a cheap weight scale and still shelled out spent roughly forty bucks. The scale seemed adequate enough for a few months. However, after several months it seemed to get "stuck" on a single number, never showing any fluctuation in his weight - not even a pound. When it finally it began to display lower numbers, and my friend was ecstatic.

Not so fast: he went to his doctor for his annual physicial, during which, of course, his physician had him step onto his tradtitional beam scale.

His cheap scale was revealed for what it really was; instead of having lost weight, as his cheapy-cheapy piece-of-junk scale had indicated, he had gained almost ten pounds! Sure enough, when he returned home and stepped onto his cheap scale, there was nearly a ten-pound discrepancy. Maybe the manufacturers of the cheap scale wanted to tell their customers what they want to hear by showing them a steady decline in weight!

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, you really do get what you pay for.

In any case, here's the GREAT NEWS. For a limited time, NewDetectoScales.com is offering the Detecto D1130 floor scale, perfect for home use, fitness centers, and health care facilities, at an HUGE DISCOUNT. The D1130 normally retails for $73, but right now, for a limited time, you can buy it here for just $59.99.

Digital weighing scales aren't something you should need to replace every year or two. Spare yourself the frustration that so many others people buying a digital weighing scales have endured and get yourself a truly high-quality digital weighing scales manufactured by a brand that is synonymous with quality scales: Detecto.

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