I am looking at buying a Taj Mahal from somebody. Haven't seen the box in person yet but it's supposed to be unopened (but with some damage). I am hoping I could at least verify the weight is correct before buying it, since it's kind of a big investment.

I wouldn't be.

I've never weighed any set and don't feel the need to. Of course I've gotten my sets from stores and not from craigs or ebay but if the seals are not tampered with then I feel ok.

Thanks for the response, jaylay!! I'm not really concerned. Seals look good and both sets weigh the same.

There has been a lot of discussion on tampered with sets bought from B&M stores and on more rare occasion online.  

in comparing websites that list set weight vs each other vs actual weights there seems to be discrepancies. 

I would like to propose a thread that can list set weights (similar to seal codes) of multiple sets so we can get a range or exact weights (scale calibration may cause variation)

if users have multiple sets and have weighed a good amount of them might be the best people for providing input. 

we could put a format to it. open to any suggestion.

Set #     Weight    Variation up/dn

Hi all any recommendation for scale for Lego?