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Etekcity EL11 digital luggage scale

The cheapest scale in the American half of this hub, and one of two here that publish nothing at all about how accurately it weighs — seven bullets of marketing and one capacity figure.

Etekcity EL11 digital luggage scale hanging from a suitcase handle

Etekcity EL11 digital luggage scale

The cheapest scale in the American half of this hub, and one of two here that publish nothing at all about how accurately it weighs — seven bullets of marketing and one capacity figure.

Amazon reference
B082LYC2TN
EAN
0817915029701
  • A 110 lb / 50 kg capacity, which covers any airline checked allowance
  • Auto-off to preserve the battery
  • No graduation, no accuracy figure and no tolerance published anywhere — the first thing this hub compares

Best for: Knowing roughly whether a bag is over, at the lowest American price on this shelf

≈ $11
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Specifications

Amazon reference
B082LYC2TN
EAN
0817915029701

This hub’s introduction is about trust: a luggage scale is worth having only if its reading holds up against the scale at the check-in desk, and small hook scales drift over months without any outward sign. The way to judge that before buying is the graduation and the stated tolerance. This listing publishes neither.

What it publishes is a capacity — 110 lb, 50 kg, which is more than any airline allowance — an auto-off function, and seven bullets of copy. The scale is “as durable as your travel spirit”. It is “Trusted by 30,000,000+ of users”. The display gives “accurate results in seconds”, which is an adjective rather than a figure. The bullet headings are set in mathematical bold italic Unicode characters, which look like emphasis on a screen and read as noise through a screen reader.

None of that makes it a bad scale. At this price it is the cheapest way to find out whether a bag is obviously over, and for most trips that is the question. What it cannot do is tell you in advance how close to 23.0 kg (50.7 lb) you can safely pack — and the hub’s buying tip, to check it periodically against a known weight, applies to this one more than to any other on the shelf. The same model is listed twice on Amazon at two prices with identical text; this is the cheaper of the two.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $10 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.

What travelers ask

How accurate is it?

The listing does not say, and that is this hub’s first comparison. A luggage scale is useful only if its reading can be trusted near an airline’s own scale, and the figures that describe that are the graduation — the smallest step it displays — and a stated tolerance. Three scales on this shelf publish one or both: 0.1 lb and 50 g (1.8 oz), a 10 g (0.4 oz) deviation, and a selectable 10, 12, 25 or 50 g (1.8 oz) step. This one publishes a capacity and an auto-off function.

Does it lock the reading?

Nothing on the page says so. This hub names display lock as a comparison because a bag swinging on a hook makes an unlocked reading hard to catch — you get a number that is still moving as you lower the bag. At least four of the eight scales on this shelf state a data lock or hold function. This listing says the display is "easy-to-read" and that results come "in seconds".

Why does it appear twice?

Two Amazon references carry the same EL11 model with the same seven bullets, word for word, at 9.86 and 10.99 dollars. There is no published difference between them. This page covers the cheaper; the other is recorded as a duplicate rather than written up twice.

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