It's not tedious at all @Samwise Gamgee
Look at it this way. The 'original' pioneers of vaping in the UK (people like Chrissie, especially) learned the hard way about what's good, what works, how products have moved forward. Those of us later to the party made our own mistakes. We try to help the best we can. I'm just sorry it all comes over a bit negative to new people.
I wasted too much money on rubbish products. Not having learned my £500+ lesson well enough, I then started trusting that all shops were fair, and honest and decent. Well, they are not. Some are purely in it for the money. They 'mess around' with the internet (fake reviews, you tube fabrications/commission selling), take your cash and then couldn't give two hoots what they send to you in the post. If it's rubbish, they ignore complaints. If you complain about them on the internet, you get threatened with legal action.
I have had 3 companies chase me for supposedly making up negative publicity about them. One even said I hadn't ever had an account with them, so comments about dreadful liquid and hardware were lies to discredit them. You can see why I'm peased off with some of these cowboys firms.
Some bloke (I shan't name him, but he and I know who he is) sits in his London flat making £40,000 a year through commission sales. He says products XYZ and great and then gets paid when people buy them. It is one of, if not the most, fake marketing businesses on the internet.
Ta mate. A shame that some shops will treat customers like that but I guess that's to be expected when there's so much money to be made from e cigs.
I got my Sigelei today but waiting for the batteries to charge. I didn't get the tank and coils yet, still waiting for that delivery but I have a tank that will fit it from a friend's mod so I've got that for now. I'm a bit excited to have my first vape with this. The mod looks really good.