I started vaping after seeing an e-cig ad on-line. It piqued my curiosity so I did a web search and found and ordered a disposable, the Gamucci Continental, online. I ordered a disposable so I wouldn’t have to invest a mint to try an e-cig, but I didn’t have the patience to wait for it so I went down to the mall and got ripped off at a Smoking Everywhere kiosk anyway. All in the same day I first saw that internet add I think – how’s that for poor impulse control?
At the mall, they tried hard to sell me an extra battery. I find it very funny in retrospect that they try to sell you an extra battery, but they didn’t even have or offer spare atties, which would be the first component to need replacing. Dorks. Anyway, they charged me an extra $5 to let me pay with a credit card, which gives a shady impression in the first place because it violates the agreement they have to have with the credit card company to be able to take a credit card (cash discounts are okay, credit up-charges are not allowed). And then, when I decided I better buy a few extra cartridges, they said they had to charge me another $5 to run my credit card again. I was annoyed so I said, “you know what, just take this crap back, I don’t want it.” I hadn’t even walked away from the kiosk yet, and the guy looked at me with a straight face and said, “Sorry, no returns.” If I could puke on demand I’d have thrown up in his face…I mean, how else can you assault someone and get away with it?
I went back to work, charged the thing up and tried it out. The experience was mediocre. Interesting, but mediocre. Of course they give you no advice whatever on how to prime the atty and use the thing so even if the product could be great, the experience was destined to be mediocre. Then, on my way home from work, I set the e-cig in my console for the drive. When I got home I looked down and the cartridge was shriveled and curled up – though I didn’t understand the mechanism yet, it had self-activated and melted the plastic cartridge. I determined that e-cigs were a BS scam.
I never would have looked back, but my “disposable” Gamucci Continental eventually showed up in the mail. It just plain worked, it did what it was supposed to do and performed quite well. I was impressed and went back to the Gamucci website to get the regular, not “disposable”, e-cig. But looking at the picture the “rechargeable” model looked just like the Smoking Everywhere I was hating on – it wasn’t the two-piece disposable that had impressed me. So I started to research and found ECF.
Enter the wonderful world. Literally, I entered Dondaboomvape’s “Wonderful World” thread that started my e-cig education.
At the mall, they tried hard to sell me an extra battery. I find it very funny in retrospect that they try to sell you an extra battery, but they didn’t even have or offer spare atties, which would be the first component to need replacing. Dorks. Anyway, they charged me an extra $5 to let me pay with a credit card, which gives a shady impression in the first place because it violates the agreement they have to have with the credit card company to be able to take a credit card (cash discounts are okay, credit up-charges are not allowed). And then, when I decided I better buy a few extra cartridges, they said they had to charge me another $5 to run my credit card again. I was annoyed so I said, “you know what, just take this crap back, I don’t want it.” I hadn’t even walked away from the kiosk yet, and the guy looked at me with a straight face and said, “Sorry, no returns.” If I could puke on demand I’d have thrown up in his face…I mean, how else can you assault someone and get away with it?
I went back to work, charged the thing up and tried it out. The experience was mediocre. Interesting, but mediocre. Of course they give you no advice whatever on how to prime the atty and use the thing so even if the product could be great, the experience was destined to be mediocre. Then, on my way home from work, I set the e-cig in my console for the drive. When I got home I looked down and the cartridge was shriveled and curled up – though I didn’t understand the mechanism yet, it had self-activated and melted the plastic cartridge. I determined that e-cigs were a BS scam.
I never would have looked back, but my “disposable” Gamucci Continental eventually showed up in the mail. It just plain worked, it did what it was supposed to do and performed quite well. I was impressed and went back to the Gamucci website to get the regular, not “disposable”, e-cig. But looking at the picture the “rechargeable” model looked just like the Smoking Everywhere I was hating on – it wasn’t the two-piece disposable that had impressed me. So I started to research and found ECF.
Enter the wonderful world. Literally, I entered Dondaboomvape’s “Wonderful World” thread that started my e-cig education.
