I got this because we travel and need to weigh our luggage to make sure its under 50 lbs for the airline checked baggage limit. Since most hotels don't have a scale in the room, I thought this would be perfect. Turns out, we couldn't get it to work because it its too heavy to lift and stay steady enough to calculate the weight. I tried standing on a bed or staircase but the suitcase is just too bulky to cooperate. This was a total fail... great idea but hard to execute correctly for it to actually work.