Bought a kangertech subox mini 50W online and I checked the authenticity and sadly its fake. Bought it on Ebay from a Top Rated Seller and the product had 209 buys. Mostly good reviews. He only had 5 bad reviews and 2 of them said theirs was fake too. Should I try to vape on it? Is it safe? What should I do if I don't want to return it?
Bought a new vape, turns out it's fake... Keep it or not?
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Try it out, if you like the vape then keep it. It's a bit troublesome that it's being advertised as something it's not but if you like the vape then keep it. Personally I'd return it just based on the false advertising but that's up to you.
I was given a fake istick pico this past week and it works great. It's up to you if you wanna return it or not. How much did you pay for it??
Me, if it was sold as an authentic and isn't, Id be wanting my $ back.
Hopefully you didn't buy batteries from ebay.
Hopefully you didn't buy batteries from ebay.
No way lol, I've been through that before.
Eh. Personally I would just keep it. You never know could work fine for you.
I have some fake subtanks that I got for $13 each on ebay. I love 'em. Nothing wrong with them at all...
I've heard that the Authenticator for supplies isn't always accurate. Don't remember the details about it tho.
Worth an email to the ebay guy, he may not know he's selling fakes, if they are. Or perhaps exchanging it for something that you do like.
Worth an email to the ebay guy, he may not know he's selling fakes, if they are. Or perhaps exchanging it for something that you do like.
I bought 2 used iStick 30w from the Classifieds here and I think they may be clones. One is supposed to be blue but it's kinda purple-ish.
They both work exactly as I would expect and I only paid $24 for both so I don't care.
They both work exactly as I would expect and I only paid $24 for both so I don't care.
Shouldn't eBay help cover some protection if you were sent an item that was different than advertised?
Personally I'd never hold onto something that was definitely inauthentic unless I specifically purchased it that way, though as others have said there's always a chance it's a problem with the code itself.
Personally I'd never hold onto something that was definitely inauthentic unless I specifically purchased it that way, though as others have said there's always a chance it's a problem with the code itself.
I would take it up with the seller - fire them an email to let them know that it's failed authentication and see what they say.
It's also quite possible that your device *is* authentic, and that the authentication procedure went FUBAR as r77r7r mentioned above - I've seen this happen more than once with a few big vape manufacturers, with people wanting to check their devices that they've bought from Fasttech or whatever.
It's also quite possible that your device *is* authentic, and that the authentication procedure went FUBAR as r77r7r mentioned above - I've seen this happen more than once with a few big vape manufacturers, with people wanting to check their devices that they've bought from Fasttech or whatever.
Do yourself a favor and don't buy vape gear or juice off ebay. There are a million online vape shops with great prices that sell the real stuff.
Sometimes manufacturers have a minimum price vendors can sell a item for and if the vendor wants to sell it cheaper they have kibosh the authentication code so their supplier won't cut them off, Efun does this and I'm pretty sure fasttech does as well in some cases.
I can't believe there ARE fake Kangers and Picos.
I mean, why clone a device that's $30 in the first place?
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I mean, why clone a device that's $30 in the first place?
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Sometimes manufacturer sell items that don't pass quality inspection to other companies for cheaper, they just won't recognize or admit that it's their product.
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