Hello and I hope after reading my story/rant someone can advise!
I had my last cigarette Dec. 9 at 3:45 pm. Since then, according to my installed apps, I have not smoked 900 cigarettes that would amount to $261.00!
Great right? Except I've spent $362 since I started vaping! I won't even break even for another 14 days.
Vaping is a tank, juice, a battery and coil +replacements, right? Wrong. When my ego (twist) quit holding a charge for more than an hour I hit a local vape shop for a replacement. Here's the newest and greatest thing, the Kanger Subvod! Best flavor around for a pen style ecig. $49.99. Ok, I'll bite, give me a small bottle of apple ejuice and an extra coil also. Vape along for a week (this uses a LOT of juice) until coil quits. Good thing I got an extra. That one lasted exactly 1 day.
Shop that extra coil came from isn't open. Find another one. Can you help with this? This is all burnt and it uses SO MUCH JUICE! Shop owner to his employee...*snicker* can you believe someone sold her this? *snicker/laugh* I'd never sell you junk like this. Sells me the exact same coil for $5. Come back and see us!
Quickly finds out Subvod has a crap battery life and drinks juice like crazy (60+ mls so far). Go back to my most trusted vape shop in another state while visiting. I buy an eLeaf istick as a primary source because the eGo is dead, and the Kanger won't last until lunch ( did I mention that it's thirsty?) Shop owner says it's the .5 coil.....why are you sub ohming? Huh?? What's that? I just want to do this instead of smoke cigarettes? He doesn't have a coil that he thinks will work but offers the idea as a solution.
Fast forward to Sunday.....must find a different coil for Subvod. Go to ANOTHER vape shop. Make my way through the clouds to the counter. Do you have a different coil for this? It won't work with another coil says surfer sounding dude. This is what you need, this is what we use for alllllllllll of our testers here.....see? $26.50 tank with an extra coil. Good news! The replacement coil that I had to use tonight isn't the 1.8 that came installed.....it's a 0.2!! Woohoo, another juice drinker!
Moral of long story......do not be gullible and fall for anything these people try to sell you. It's extremely hard to educate yourself in this because unless you know what GRB, XYZ, QDY, etc means then you won't know coil resistance from volts & wattage. Throw in the juices, coils, another tank and I'm just disheartened.
If you own one of these shops, please be practical and sell your customers what will suit them best! I promise they will return. I have yet to find more than one that I will ever step foot in again. Everyone that walks through your door isn't chasing some cloud or dragon, some just simply want to quit smoking and do it without all the crap. Ditch the "sub-ohm" gear until someone asks for it. I feel ripped off by a minimum of three shops, openly laughed at in one of those.
Looking forward to comments from anyone who's experienced anything similar.
I had my last cigarette Dec. 9 at 3:45 pm. Since then, according to my installed apps, I have not smoked 900 cigarettes that would amount to $261.00!
Great right? Except I've spent $362 since I started vaping! I won't even break even for another 14 days.
Vaping is a tank, juice, a battery and coil +replacements, right? Wrong. When my ego (twist) quit holding a charge for more than an hour I hit a local vape shop for a replacement. Here's the newest and greatest thing, the Kanger Subvod! Best flavor around for a pen style ecig. $49.99. Ok, I'll bite, give me a small bottle of apple ejuice and an extra coil also. Vape along for a week (this uses a LOT of juice) until coil quits. Good thing I got an extra. That one lasted exactly 1 day.
Shop that extra coil came from isn't open. Find another one. Can you help with this? This is all burnt and it uses SO MUCH JUICE! Shop owner to his employee...*snicker* can you believe someone sold her this? *snicker/laugh* I'd never sell you junk like this. Sells me the exact same coil for $5. Come back and see us!
Quickly finds out Subvod has a crap battery life and drinks juice like crazy (60+ mls so far). Go back to my most trusted vape shop in another state while visiting. I buy an eLeaf istick as a primary source because the eGo is dead, and the Kanger won't last until lunch ( did I mention that it's thirsty?) Shop owner says it's the .5 coil.....why are you sub ohming? Huh?? What's that? I just want to do this instead of smoke cigarettes? He doesn't have a coil that he thinks will work but offers the idea as a solution.
Fast forward to Sunday.....must find a different coil for Subvod. Go to ANOTHER vape shop. Make my way through the clouds to the counter. Do you have a different coil for this? It won't work with another coil says surfer sounding dude. This is what you need, this is what we use for alllllllllll of our testers here.....see? $26.50 tank with an extra coil. Good news! The replacement coil that I had to use tonight isn't the 1.8 that came installed.....it's a 0.2!! Woohoo, another juice drinker!
Moral of long story......do not be gullible and fall for anything these people try to sell you. It's extremely hard to educate yourself in this because unless you know what GRB, XYZ, QDY, etc means then you won't know coil resistance from volts & wattage. Throw in the juices, coils, another tank and I'm just disheartened.
If you own one of these shops, please be practical and sell your customers what will suit them best! I promise they will return. I have yet to find more than one that I will ever step foot in again. Everyone that walks through your door isn't chasing some cloud or dragon, some just simply want to quit smoking and do it without all the crap. Ditch the "sub-ohm" gear until someone asks for it. I feel ripped off by a minimum of three shops, openly laughed at in one of those.
Looking forward to comments from anyone who's experienced anything similar.
