Products and suppliers reported as unreliable

[eSmokinRocks]

Also, I don't know where you've gathered your info about ePuffer or more importantly, when, but I've gotten free products by the boatload from them and been quite pleased at the amount of vapor and smooth feeling of the "smoke"!

Their web support team is always responsive, often taking my word that they sent me something of the incorrect strength and not asking me to send them back, they simply replaced them. I see you're also against smoke 51 who uses the same atomizer/cartridge combo which could easily be considered generation 2 of e-cig smoking. Even Janty is selling a 2 piece e-cig that's disposable.

I guess anything you don't sell raises a big warning flag to all the forum readers!

Back to ePuffer, in addition to the Magnum (which is by far my favorite and has been working non-stop for about 10 months now), the Micro truly is the tiniest e-cig on the market that doesn't squirt liquid in your mouth and produces amazing amounts of vapor, especially considering the size of the thing!

[SilkyVapor]

I'm new to vaping just ordered a starter kit from Vaporstix and this is my experience. The responded quickly to an email I sent. I received a shipping notice quickly from paypal but when I tried to track it the msg I received was this...The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper on April 12, 2009 to expect your package for mailing. This does not indicate receipt by the USPS or the actual mailing date. Delivery status information will be provided if / when available. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later. I later found out that the company is out of stock and waiting for a shipment. The website gave not indication that the product was not available....I find that shady....I thought I had done adequate research by reading reviews in this forum but just found out that sub forums are owned by the suppliers which means they control what is posted there. Lesson learned.

Torrie,

I saw that you received your order on the thread you posted in the supplier forum.

WOW I'm Impressed!!

I know you were anxious to get it, and maybe reading about the speed of my order made you even more anxious, but I really think that they handled everything very professionally for you in the thread linked above.

I have no vested interest in Vaporstix, I've just gotten excellent service from them and I would hate to see a good seller's name being tarnished due to a misunderstanding.

We need all the good sellers we can get right now

[Flames]

Also, I don't know where you've gathered your info about ePuffer or more importantly, when, but I've gotten free products by the boatload from them and been quite pleased at the amount of vapor and smooth feeling of the "smoke"!

Their web support team is always responsive, often taking my word that they sent me something of the incorrect strength and not asking me to send them back, they simply replaced them. I see you're also against smoke 51 who uses the same atomizer/cartridge combo which could easily be considered generation 2 of e-cig smoking. Even Janty is selling a 2 piece e-cig that's disposable.

I guess anything you don't sell raises a big warning flag to all the forum readers!

Back to ePuffer, in addition to the Magnum (which is by far my favorite and has been working non-stop for about 10 months now), the Micro truly is the tiniest e-cig on the market that doesn't squirt liquid in your mouth and produces amazing amounts of vapor, especially considering the size of the thing!

I was not going to post anything further regarding e-puffer but feel I have to respond to this post.
1) my experience is VERY current. Over the last several weeks, say a month or two for how long everything was dragged out.
2) I am not assi=ociated with ANY maker or distributor, just a guy trying to give up the fire sticks
3) To show that I was understanding and flexible, I actually bought TWO kits from them. When the first kit did not work they told me I had bought the 'wrong' kit. It was the micro by the way, the one you speak so highly of. They said it was not meant for normal smokers use.
4) So I bought the Magnum at their direction. It was faulty from the get as well.
5) They were VERY slow at responding to the website
6) They seemed to care ZERO amount for selling me two products that sis not work.
7) Refunds took a long time to process.
8) It was out the cost of shipping these faulty kits BOTH ways.. so 4 shipping charges
9) They had the stones to deduct the amount for the two cartridges that I had used trying to make the damn thing work
10) the way they are processing the federal sales tax and not refunding is actually illegal.

I have found a product that I like, along with their service, but I am not going to mention them so there is nothing I can be accused of.

[LuckyCharm]

These guys need to know that word gets out, people talk, and nowadays folks bother to do a little research before shelling out a lot of dough for something that's fairly new on the market. The smart ones are the ones working their asses off right now to deliver superior customer satisfaction -- they'll be the ones that outlast the competition and eventually become the industry standard. You know who you are -- and THANK you, all of you suppliers who are working so hard to make this a success!

Cheers,

~~Cheryl (*virtual fist bump to all of you*)

[Kidrio1957]

Bought a Smoking Everywhere kit yesterday at the Barton Creek Mall in Austin, Texas for $150 (boy, do I feel like an idiot). The e-cig, in a word is "dreadful". Compared to the $48 pen style I got from puresmoker one month ago, it's downright pitiful. Naturally, I did not find out about their no-refund policy until I tried to get my dough back (less than 24hrs. after I bought it). The clown who owns the kiosk lied to me and told me to go online and get my refund that way but the other clowns at the end of the SE online website told me to take a hike, they have nothing to do with their franchise shills. They make a buck by passing the buck. Terrible product, terrible refund policy, these shysters are cashing in a most shameless and despicable way. BUYER BEWARE, don't get taken by Smoking Everywhere, AVOID, AVOID, AVOID!!!!

[strayling]

Bought a Smoking Everywhere kit yesterday at the Barton Creek Mall in Austin, Texas for $150 (boy, do I feel like an idiot).

Don't. You might not have bought the cheapest or the best, but at least you didn't spend the money on analogs. Everyone has to start somewhere

[LuckyCharm]

Bought a Smoking Everywhere kit yesterday...

That's the company I first heard of when I heard of PV's -- our local paper carried a story about them. I never even knew till recently that there even WAS more than one company! So I looked them up right away and gave them a call. The woman who answered the phone didn't give me a real positive first impression. Among other things, when I asked if they were FDA approved, she immediately put me on hold for a LONG time. When she finally came back on the line, she said they were approved by an "international FDA." Huh? Right then, she lost all credibility with me, and I gave up on the whole idea until I ran into a couple of independent local distributors who let me try theirs.

~~Cheryl

[smiley7]

Ditto, I also got great service from Vaporstix. Couldn't have been better. Travis(hope that's right-that name was on the back of the card I got with my order) keep up the excellent work!!!!

[torrielw]

I am rebutting my earlier post on Vaporstix....Travis and Jessica you both ROCK....Thanks again for all the support and advice you have provided. I'm officially a vaporstix "fangirl". UPS was not updating the tracking system to track the package. It arrive on Wed.

[Kate]

Thanks for putting that right Torrielw

Let me just put a reminder here for folk to be aware that one or two individual opinions do not represent a trend. The traders and products on the first post have been discussed at length and are thought to be worth noting by a lot of members.

I tried to put links to relevant discussions on the first post but the links didn't translate with the edit. If you do a tag search for traders or products you're interested in you should find the threads.

Here's a couple of current traders who are very much out of favour with many -

www.intellicigS.com

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/for...g-protest.html