I'm avoiding coil building purposely because it WILL frustrate the hell out of someone with ADHD! Plus, the replaceable coils are the best route for my friends, I feel. They were homeless for a while so a desk with coil building supplies and, expecting them to learn how to do it is out of the question.
I don't want to discourage them.
I think I need to respond to this, particularly the first sentence: if you aren't prepared to build your own coils, I'd venture to guess that you're also not ready for TC vaping. Yes, I know some attys come with pre-made coils that claim to be stainless or whatever, but my experience with factory-made coils is that they're almost all total crap. TC is very finicky -- go .1 ohm too high, and it drops to wattage mode; stainless is prone to hot-spots... and other little quirks that someone who doesn't build their own coils really isn't prepared to deal with.
I can understand being annoyed with the industry; I'm quite annoyed with how they cater to cloud chasers, since they wanna sell everyone enough ejuice to fill a good-sized lake, since ejuice is where the profit lies. But it doesn't do anyone any good to be annoyed with those trying to fill in the gaps of information for you. Granted, a few of them were asshats from the get-go, but you've managed to annoy even those who, at first, were trying to be helpful. TC is absolutely NOT for beginning vapers -- as you correctly noted, they really need replacement coils... and with TC, that's an even bigger problem than with regular kanthal coils.
I got to know you a bit in our PM discussions, and I like you, and I completely get why you're so frustrated with the vaping industry, and for my own reasons, I share that frustration. But taking it out on those trying to help you out with info really isn't the way to learn about vaping. I might invite you to try out ECF, but I have a feeling you might run afoul of the idiot asshat moderators over there, if you can't handle the heat in this particular kitchen. It does take a thick skin to deal with VU, no lie about that... but it would be crazy to totally ditch such a helpful forum just because you aren't getting what you want from this thread. Maybe just take a step back, consider all the actual info you've gotten here, rather than focusing so completely on your frustration.
You're right: TC is mostly crap, unless you're prepared to throw a huge chunk of money at it... and build your own coils. Getting your friends all-in-one starter kits is a MUCH better idea. I won't buy vape stuff for any newbie (other than a bit for my own son), because people only value what they themselves pay for -- stuff that comes for free, they will value accordingly, and probably not succeed as a vaper. They have to WANT IT, for themselves.
Andria