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Have a read of this: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13917310/incontext/?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reply_to_comment

Those ones I've got seem pretty great but they've not had a massive amount of use. I'd say they were worth the <£20. You can get cheaper ones but it's a on gamble as to the accuracy and design. Aldi/Lidl have them occasionally which might be your best bet for cheapo ones.

I have to measure stuff for a living. Generally, those cheap ones aren't reliable. If you wang them about they can jump about and then you don't know where you are. Like @mdcc_tester mentioned, you can pick up a manual vernier caliper for not a lot and it'll always read correctly. I got my Mitutoyo ones second hand on eBay for about £15 delivered and they looked like they'd never been used. They'll always have resale value as well.

Rather pedantic of me, but it might avoid confusion later: "Vernier" and "digital" refers to the scale and not the type of caliper, so they are either Vernier or digital.

They're usually both an internal and external type: eg they can measure both the outside of a seatpost and the inside of the seat tube.

I've used the cheap digital ones and they're pretty shit. Even the Park one isn't great. Similar to @Jonny69 I have second hand Mitutoyo (non-digital). Solid.