Evidently, these have had fewer and fewer attendees since my last review. Yesterday there were maybe 30 people in attendance. I know of one vape shop that won't even go due to low attendance. Also, last weekend the weather was bad so it got canceled. I think perhaps a lack of interest or on the part of organizers that these last 2 or 3 had been less than thrilling. I went to a scenic city vape meet that was quite good. About 600 people, and they had P. Busardo in attendance which was one of the reason I drove down there.
Reflecting on the matter, I can't quite pinpoint exactly why the Nashville Vape meets aren't quite a hit. I think that part of it could be the people organizing it don't have the connections to big name people or place to interest people into coming. Secondly, a thought that I had was that maybe meeting every month isn't such a great idea. I mean every meet has the same vendor who I could just go visit if I wanted.
Perhaps a meet once every 2-3 months could work but really working hard to promote those and make them a big deal rather than meeting in a dive bar. Lastly, you got to have a number of people who know about the group on Facebook, and who care enough to even show up. I only found out about it from a guy works at Saffire Vapor, Rick, probably the only one there who knows much of anything about the product that company sells.
Nonetheless, I enjoyed going to the meet yesterday, and on some level I actually liked the smaller more personal atmosphere. A comment was made on the group's page saying without the vendors we have no meet. IMO that's ... backwards. Without people, there is no meet. Vendors come to make money, vapers come to have fun and talk vape. Personally, I rarely if ever buy anything at vape meets because vendors rarely have juices that I can't make (plus I don't care to pay out the ... for juice), and they rarely sells quality products. Granted I have almost everything I could want.
Final note : While I don't intend to hate on people trying to organize these events, I have sent a message to them volunteering to help with no reply, I feel some constructive criticism is always valid and useful,
Reflecting on the matter, I can't quite pinpoint exactly why the Nashville Vape meets aren't quite a hit. I think that part of it could be the people organizing it don't have the connections to big name people or place to interest people into coming. Secondly, a thought that I had was that maybe meeting every month isn't such a great idea. I mean every meet has the same vendor who I could just go visit if I wanted.
Perhaps a meet once every 2-3 months could work but really working hard to promote those and make them a big deal rather than meeting in a dive bar. Lastly, you got to have a number of people who know about the group on Facebook, and who care enough to even show up. I only found out about it from a guy works at Saffire Vapor, Rick, probably the only one there who knows much of anything about the product that company sells.
Nonetheless, I enjoyed going to the meet yesterday, and on some level I actually liked the smaller more personal atmosphere. A comment was made on the group's page saying without the vendors we have no meet. IMO that's ... backwards. Without people, there is no meet. Vendors come to make money, vapers come to have fun and talk vape. Personally, I rarely if ever buy anything at vape meets because vendors rarely have juices that I can't make (plus I don't care to pay out the ... for juice), and they rarely sells quality products. Granted I have almost everything I could want.
Final note : While I don't intend to hate on people trying to organize these events, I have sent a message to them volunteering to help with no reply, I feel some constructive criticism is always valid and useful,
