It's fine, I expected as much with the tone of my first message if people didn't stop to think and see whether what I brought up made
sense or not or just said this guy sounds like he's an ... based on his tone so I'll disregard everything else in it. I'm saying whoever made that rule made a bad one as far as I'm concerned. You don't attract users with signup restrictions from the get go. I totally understand restricting access to the classifieds thread to build a reputation, that's perfectly legitimate. But requiring this doesn't prove anything.
Case in point. Spammer averted? Really guys?
No, this technology isn't new, the application is, arguably. Again these are the same components found in a variable intensity flashlight from the reading I've done, and those flashlights are hundreds of times more durable. Why? As for the idea of value vs cigarettes yes you're right, but that isn't the only way to look at it. Just because you're saving money on cigarettes doesn't mean that (if what I've figured out so far is right) it's ok for ecig makers to charge absurd markups. For that matter, what the hell is this idea of stainless steel finishes? We're going to make a (fairly heavy) stainless steel tube that people carry around all the time, there's going to be no issues with grip, right?
Smaller production runs I've already taken into consideration, and even with that, the prices are still insanely high. It's nothing more than a cnc machine, and assembly. People like Dwood of overclock.net charge 10-50 bucks for custom aluminium brackets using a cnc cutter depending on how complicated what you want is. That covers the idea of the casing being worth over 100 bucks. Some being made in the US does justify a portion of it, but still not all.
Paying for quality doesn't mean paying a lot. Nokia 3310 is a case in point. It was cheap at it's time, and is still among the highest quality/most durable phones in the world.
Since most people have so many questions that they're just going to ask in the kiddie pool and have answered anyway, what is the point of this? You've already got spammers like jarhead earlier that just take advantage of it and get in anyway, and you're not limiting new members to only introduces themselves and getting the information you want, so what are you doing?
Seriously guys...and this is not an issue when you're trying to prevent spammers? lmao.
You pay more for a ferrari for about a billion reasons (you just brought this up to an auto guy lol). Horsepower, build quality, exclusiveness, prestige, and the joy of using it. Yes you could make the argument that that's why you
buy a provari, but unlike the provari or nice mech
mod, but there's a difference in pricing gap. Take for example the audi brand (not vw group), it's a luxury automaker (and does include lamborghini), yet there margins are only around 12% as at 2011 (
Volkswagen Group - Annual Report 2011 - Audi). My point is these vapes have seemingly got very high double digit margins, and you're saying you're paying for quality.
