I have been shopping around for such a scale since the last time I had to pay for a luggage that went over the allowable individual limit. The annoying thing is that I had 2 suitcases and the combined weight was within the sum of the individual limits! You would think that's acceptable but not by their rules. I intend to carry this scale with me on my next overseas trip and spread out the weight on my way back. No more weighing myself on a weighing machine, then carrying the luggage and re-weighing again and do mental math to subtract the two weights :-) This scale does it well.