Are there, but subtle. There's nothing wrong in fine tuning something if it can be.
Disagree. Once the limited edition ships design is locked until next revision or you destroy the second hand market as well as limited edition credibility. Changing after releasing a super expensive "special version, within months and without a full revision change, is jobbing your most loyal customers. If tweaks were to be made they should have made it into the ti. Otherwise if something operational is occurring. Like say my ti is floodin a lot due to some flaw - and that HAS to be fixed - then you need to eat the cost of a mistake and upgrade limited edition purchasers.
What's the point of a limited edition that's worse than a half price mass produced version. Or mass produced in comparison. ?
Tweaking now is admitting mistakes in the limited edition for all Intents and purposes. The very expensive limited edition. Rendering increased value or covet factor back to nil
I'd trade a titanium for a functionally improved gem. I had faith they had done everything that needed doing. Whether I realized it or not. When I made that $245 purchase. Which by the way is a crapload for an atomizer.
I have a limited edition titanium gem!!!!!!
I have a gem that cost half as much and works better.
I'll take that one ^^
When you make a limited first run you don't then make the subsequent mass production better. It's just bad business in a limited edition marketplace. Very bad business. Buy a 1/50 print!!!
Two weeks later a 25,000 lithograph run is made that's more color accurate and wears better. What market exists for the the 1/50 standard print? Not much
That's why t typically goes
Original - lithograph - print decreased quality however Imperceptual
I may be drawing a bad analogy. It's all that came to mind. I can't claim to know much about art. Only in the pop sense. Not fine art.
Also regarding the price being lower. It's so v1 people don't feel the pinch? That also makes very little sense. That may be the line they're feeding but the very obvious truth is slow unit sales in the wake of many newer atomizers. A decreased cost of prototyping due to a functionally very similar design - mostly paid for by limited edition buyers a who just got jobbed , and a functional need to reduce prices to compete and attract new buyers.
This is happening all
Over the industry. All major boutiques are lowering prices unless they're only ever making 200 or something. The market for pricey authentics especially in a world of very good $35-50 Chinese tanks using 316 stainless and lung hitting cloud blowers is dwindling. Even while the overall Vaping market grows.
The original gem sold
Out Ina. Flash. But he titanium limited was around quite a while. And I believe is still available at resellers (good luck selling them if they are when the v2 with better design ships at half the price point)
Lowering the price do the stainless ruins the second hand market. Which again is necessary for authentic trading and sampling. Very few people on this market have fully disposible income to the level you do to sample all these tanks. Most have to buy and sell the few tanks they have to try others.
That's now functionally impossible with both the v1 and to gem
Case in point my lined up buyer for the stainless was the first guy posting in response and perhaps one of the most interested here. So much for that sale
These aren't museum pieces where we want to display unused ones as he evolution of Vaping in our houses. For most of us functionally better = better. Good luck selling the "worse" version of the gem for a reasonable percentage.
I'm repeating myself now. Sorry. Anyway. To each their own. I feel mark bugs is going to blow it based on what you've stated.
