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Isticks have been known to lower the price point. Their sales motto is volume sales with moderate quality. When Eleaf came out with the Istick 20, it shook the market, forcing all others to lower their prices. Then they improved and made the 30 for practically the same price. The thing is, those were very reliable items. When they came out with the 50w, they did have those problems, but most ecig companies have had one sort of problem or another. It's just the nature of the business. I don't distrust a company based on one failure... usually, those are the companies that learn from their mistakes, and I am sure Eleaf will.
Case in point.. the Cloupor mini. They did have a problem with one of their IC's... It's easy to criticize a company based on their failure. Sure, all Ecigs should work as intended with no problems, but this isn't a perfect world. Their failure rate was less than %.5, yet the stigma was gotten through pictures from a few cases.. I think I've seen only 5-6 cases, and they said under 20 were reported last time I checked.. that is out of THOUSANDS, possibly over 100,000. That was their failure rate, and other failures were reported while charging. Since the cloupor mini comes with a USB charge port, most people assume that you can plug in just any ole' USB charger and everything will be fine... but USB is not a set amperage. If you plugged the device into a 2A charger, you would be fast charging the device. They listed the specs in the manual, so it wouldn't surprise me that something was blown. Anyway, Back to the point.. when they came out with their upgrade, they added a battery, increased the wattage, and added temperature control, added spring loaded center contact and lightened the box by using aluminum.. it's known as the Cloupor GT. Same setup, same overall design, but with improvements. Guess what's NOT on their new box.... a USB charging port. Let's just hope they can continue after suffering through this problem.
Istick has had their problems with the Istick 50w..but again, it's not a common occurrence. Sigeli 100 learned from it's reverse threaded center pin (which I love, but others didn't), and now they're all spring loaded. Vamo had the problem with their center pin and contacts being brass.. the latest versions fixed that problem as well as the poor bottom spring contacts. I can go on.
So, I wouldn't let one bad seed destroy the bunch. There WILL be problems with mods, there WILL be some defective mods. But don't blacklist a company for one problem on a past device when they've produced many other products. Companies learn from their mistakes, and with an industry that's evolving so much in a short amount of time, don't expect a %100 trouble free ride.
