CASAA Suggestion Box

[Territoo]

Webby is right in that we need to and will be establishing GAP. We cannot at this stage necessarily promise you that we will include a discount on zero nic juice though, at least without researching the matter.

I suspect that it might be that the biggest cost of the juice is the labor to measure, mix, bottle, label, and store the juice. This would be similar to fast food restaurants, which is why they can supersize the meals so cheaply. The food cost is much smaller than the labor.

We will look into the matter though.

[68stang]

Well getting to something simpler, but really representing of what a serious
consumer rights group should do.

How about a CASAA-level demand for a fixed discount on all suppliers 0 mg e-juice, this will :
1. be fair since the most expensive part of e-juice is nicotine
2. advocate an image of less harm possible, giving an extra reason for ppl
to wean off nicotine.
3. give ppl a simple goal to 'fight' for or to join CASAA, aka 'advertise' CASAA
as something fundamentally different to ECA ... we are the consumers
afterall

slow down! Casaa or any body meddling in the free market is for Russia not the USA. If a supplier is able to discount there 0 nic juice andm ake money and earn new customers then they will soon enough. Remember the free market is the best and only way to go.

[thanas1s]

well tbh i don't see why and how a consumer group demand for a cheaper product or industry-wide adopted practices is something that goes against free market concept*.

Quite the contrary actually, free market prices are not just defined by competition between suppliers and the various costs involved but it is affected by the pricing point that consumers generally accept as fair.
The overall pricing of most things related to e-cigs is too high imo and that is because consumers are more willing to pay that much due to the hugely tax-inflated prices of the analog alternatives. You need a simple PG per galon, VG per galon, flavours per ml, other food additives cost calculation to see just how much overpriced this product is.

That being said, i am not the one to say that juice suppliers are scamming us out of our money or something, but from the point of CASAA view i thing that we have to demand smaller prices and never settle down on quality - prices issues.

Anyways, back to the issue at hand, since non-nic juice has a smaller mixing labour cost, one has not to worry that he will ship 24mg juice instead of the ordered 6mg (!) the overall supplier cost should be lower. Just guessing ...

*unless your hero is called Adam Smith and Microsoft is a company that adheres to the free market competition .. !