Oh no..not this subject again. I don't order AiV anymore, just because I have another favored vendor but I understand and respect their business model and after a few years of doing this they come in very high on the list of quality vendors I've had experience with. Search for a now archived thread about Ms Ts if you want an idea about small vendors who want to "maintain" quality and never close and where that can lead. A vendor who stays open 24/7, takes your money immediately and delivers your juice MONTHS later, or never..with ever diminishing quality as apparently being overloaded makes you cut corners. Way back when Alice took orders all the time and got backed up enough that people really had to wait long times and they decided to fix that in order *not* displease customers while keeping their juice made to their standards. Good on them! Several other vendors similarly backed up back when vaping was kind of exploding chose instead to mass-produce, limit their ratios, limit their flavors, or do a Ms T's. and just let people sit and wait while they spent their cash. There are plenty of factory style vendors available all the time but if you want custom, human-crafted artisan juices..it's no different than anything else; it has to be made by humans and they have limits. Not everyone is infinitely greedy, either. Alice, Ahlusion, some other vendors really care an awful lot about their product. Stupid? Maybe, if it's big bucks that would be the goal. Or maybe not. Satisfied, returning, devoted customers loving and regularly buying a product that you feel really good about making might be a reward for some people, crazy as that sounds. ;->