Recent content by KitP

The question becomes who will regulate it and who will pull the strings of the regulators? If the industry can't self-regulate, an oversight agency will step in to do so and as was pointed out, pharm fingers will likely be in the pie. The ease with which internet sites can be started up and...

Erk... Notably, also, I can't edit my messages and I hit the wrong button going from quick reply. As I was going to continue... A BBB rating is a metric of official complaints or lack thereof, and how they are handled. A BBB membership means that unique numbers of customers and other...

Erp... A few multi-replies... First off, I am not salaried or on the clock as a reporter. Those days are long gone. Even getting the old $500 for a story is gone. These days we're suffering through minimal pay for stories and then only if the stories "perform well" (Yay for internet...

I'm hoping to get enough data for a proper followup. When I've got retailers claiming to be suppliers, so little luck contacting the actual manufacturers, and situations of apparent righteous indignation and attacks from retailers whose numbers don't match up with the common numbers seen, it's...

Please understand also that I personally support e-Cigs, keeping in mind that I don't smoke even. At the same time, I can't just be fully supportive in an article lest it display an unwarranted bias. The community is there. The product is strong. The opposition will be intense. Right now...

Yup. Notice the "Buy" part of your page title. That identified you to me as a retailer. Since this was intended to be a product review, I was not looking for retailers. I just looked at that site again. It's labeled directly as a blog at the very top, which generally holds that it is the...

I think one of the things that I should have clarified just above: Suppliers != Retailers A retailer sells to end users. A supplier sells to retailers. A distributor or a wholesaler sells to suppliers. A manufacturer sells to distributors and wholesalers. When I say supplier, I'm not...

So, now that we have a problem, let's try to fix it. Hi, I'm Kit, the writer at the center of all the controversy in this thread. This was originally supposed to be a product review. The first problem that I run into on that is the fact that product reviews are intended to review either a...