Hi Jimmy! I'm Lois Lane. No I'm not.
Sorry you got sucked in - I hope you extracted yourself totally from that!
There are plenty of reasonably priced models. We shop somewhere below that rip-off seedy upper crust of ecig sellers.
If you want slim and are willing to put up with swapping and recharging batteries more often, the two most popular model lines are:
Joye 510 (2-3 hours battery w/ light to moderate
vaping, 3-4 with the mega xl batteries and I recommend MANUAL batteries)
KR808D-1 (sold by Vapor4Life in colors, most prefilled cartos are there too) Standard length batteries 3-4 hours, and get MANUAL batteries
If you want 6-8+ hour battery life or more with longer batteries, skip the slim ecigs and see Ego and Riva 510 for the 510 line or if you want to be in the KR808D-1 line see leCig's Pigcig and CigEasy's Elegant Easy. the fat-battery models also let you use hard-hitting low resistance parts.
Any of those are a good start. They are the most supported threadings for adapters and cartomizers.
Whatever you get, you will be adding
eliquid. 510 comes as a 3-piece (with atomizer and cart) - carts need to topped off often with liquid. You can also drip on an atomizer if you have manual batteries (not recommend on autos). Many prefer cartomizers - combined disposable atty+cart - if you fill one well or by prefilled and keep it damp with juice, you could get 4-7 days use out of a carto and some people are even successful at reviving them with cleaning. The KR8 line has a good selection of prefilled cartos, 510 line does not but 510 may have a greater selection of blank carto styles. Either has adpaters to use the other's parts. Ego also has new tank atomizers and tanks that hold a lot of eliquid (and apparently use it up quickly too) - see peoples' review of Ego-T