Ive made a couple orders from Gearbest now, still waiting for them to come, but it wasnt til last night I got a little worried about something.
Aside from their terrible ship times (fully aware I could be waiting upwards of a month), is the vape stuff they sell legit? Legit as in authentic or non counterfeit?
I ask because I put in an order for a Smok Treebox 75w, a Herakles Plus tank, and a couple VTC4s, and last night I was just looking at the Treebox on there because its pretty and I cant wait to get it, and I noticed somewhere on the page it said something like "Chinese Version, please be aware of this". So immediately this shouted to me "counterfeit!". Is that likely? What the hell is the chinese version? I couldnt find anything related to that on google, and my inquiry to Gearbest itself was answered with some generic "please read the description" crap.
I know a lot of the vaping stuff nowadays, especially mods, are coming out of China, but in my eyes, when something says "Chinese Version" it means a fake. Apart from my vaping hobby, I also play guitar and like buying guitars. In the guitar industry now a days, and especially in the high end guitar market, there is a very very large presence of fake chinese counterfeits. Just for an example, a real, made in USA Gibson True Historic R9 will set you back around $7000-$10000. The Chinese fake? $300 shipping from China included. You can see how fakes get to be a pretty big issue pretty fast.
Aside from their terrible ship times (fully aware I could be waiting upwards of a month), is the vape stuff they sell legit? Legit as in authentic or non counterfeit?
I ask because I put in an order for a Smok Treebox 75w, a Herakles Plus tank, and a couple VTC4s, and last night I was just looking at the Treebox on there because its pretty and I cant wait to get it, and I noticed somewhere on the page it said something like "Chinese Version, please be aware of this". So immediately this shouted to me "counterfeit!". Is that likely? What the hell is the chinese version? I couldnt find anything related to that on google, and my inquiry to Gearbest itself was answered with some generic "please read the description" crap.
I know a lot of the vaping stuff nowadays, especially mods, are coming out of China, but in my eyes, when something says "Chinese Version" it means a fake. Apart from my vaping hobby, I also play guitar and like buying guitars. In the guitar industry now a days, and especially in the high end guitar market, there is a very very large presence of fake chinese counterfeits. Just for an example, a real, made in USA Gibson True Historic R9 will set you back around $7000-$10000. The Chinese fake? $300 shipping from China included. You can see how fakes get to be a pretty big issue pretty fast.