diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h
index 2090a0e49..b5ed5ae8f 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h
@@ -149,15 +149,31 @@ class ScaledProduct;
 // define all overloads defined in MatrixBase. Furthermore, Using
 // "using Base::operator*" would not work with MSVC.
 // 
-// Also note that here we accept any type which can be converted to Derived::Scalar.
-template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs,typename Scalar>
-const ScaledProduct<Derived> operator*(const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod, Scalar x)
+// Also note that here we accept any compatible scalar types
+template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
+const ScaledProduct<Derived>
+operator*(const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod, typename Derived::Scalar x)
 { return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
 
-template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs,typename Scalar>
-const ScaledProduct<Derived> operator*(Scalar x,const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod)
+template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
+typename ei_enable_if<!ei_is_same_type<typename Derived::Scalar,typename Derived::RealScalar>::ret,
+                      const ScaledProduct<Derived> >::type
+operator*(const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod, typename Derived::RealScalar x)
 { return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
 
+
+template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
+const ScaledProduct<Derived>
+operator*(typename Derived::Scalar x,const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod)
+{ return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
+
+template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
+typename ei_enable_if<!ei_is_same_type<typename Derived::Scalar,typename Derived::RealScalar>::ret,
+                      const ScaledProduct<Derived> >::type
+operator*(typename Derived::RealScalar x,const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod)
+{ return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
+
+
 template<typename NestedProduct>
 struct ei_traits<ScaledProduct<NestedProduct> >
  : ei_traits<ProductBase<ScaledProduct<NestedProduct>,
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h
index 029d966fd..3a960bea6 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h
@@ -155,12 +155,7 @@ template<int Y, int InfX, int SupX>
 class ei_meta_sqrt<Y, InfX, SupX, true> { public:  enum { ret = (SupX*SupX <= Y) ? SupX : InfX }; };
 
 /** \internal determines whether the product of two numeric types is allowed and what the return type is */
-template<typename T, typename U> struct ei_scalar_product_traits
-{
-  // dummy general case where T and U aren't compatible -- not allowed anyway but we catch it elsewhere
-  //enum { Cost = NumTraits<T>::MulCost };
-  typedef T ReturnType;
-};
+template<typename T, typename U> struct ei_scalar_product_traits;
 
 template<typename T> struct ei_scalar_product_traits<T,T>
 {