QUMOX High Precision Digital Travel Scale for Suitcase Luggage Weight 110lb 50KG Capacity Silver

Why it's worth it

The plainest scale here, and the one with a metal hook instead of plastic. It handles up to 110 pounds and switches between pounds, kilograms, grams and ounces, which helps if you also weigh packages to ship.

The metal hook is the reason to consider this one. On cheap scales the hook and strap are the weak link, and they're often molded plastic or thin webbing. QUMOX pairs a metal hook with a carrying strap, and that's the part carrying all the load when a heavy bag swings on the way up. If you've broken a scale before, that's almost certainly where it broke.

Four unit options is more useful than it sounds. Pounds and kilograms cover flying, since international allowances are written in kilograms and U.S. carriers post limits in pounds. Grams and ounces cover the rest of the year: shipping a parcel, checking a box against a flat-rate limit, weighing a pack before a hike. Most scales here give you two units and stop.

From our review of 6 luggage scales

What we like

• +The metal hook is the reason to consider this one
• +Four unit options is more useful than it sounds
• +What you give up is polish

What to know

• –The listing is thin on exactly the details that separate a good hook scale from an annoying one
• –It's also the least-documented product here, with no published warranty term