Thank you
@KKen That helps a lot! I haven't been around long enough to "know the right people" lol.
Don't really need to know anyone if you just want a good authentic. Once you figure out what is important to you, yeah, you can take it one step further like Franciscan and source the uber-rare stuff. Sometimes though, you get lucky. I've found nice things on various forum classifieds, local B&M or just online.
Like I mentioned earlier, if you spend some time watching Todds Ecig reviews, you'll find something that fits your criteria soon enough. From there, just google search the item. Sometimes you'll find it, sometimes not.
Depending on what you like, you may gravitate to a particular reviewer or reviewers. For me, I gravitate towards European and Philippine made mods and atties, so I tend to often watch:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ABloodyGoodVaping
https://www.youtube.com/user/igetcha69
https://www.youtube.com/user/viennavaper (lots of Philippine product reviews, some English, some German)
Not to say they don't review US products, they often do as well, but I notice that they tend to get their hands on more of the items that you don't hear so much about, at least that's what it seems like to me