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How are you gonna effectively ban an oring or an insulator or replacement glass? Chinese retailers never list the exact items that are in the envelope/box anyway. + no customs scanner is going to know what a Kayfun or Taifun or Subtank or whatever insulator looks like. It's just a piece of plastic.
The problem comes when they refuse to ship it to the US like ALi Express/Alibaba just did a couple months ago.

As long as we can find someone willing to ship it we are fine. I refuse to put all my eggs in the basket of that continuing to be possible.
 

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Surprised at how many people on this thread use Eightvape. They have a really bad rep on other forums I am a member of. Never used them myself bu tthey have always come across as scammy to me. Too many hoops to jump through just to get a deal. lol
I've had seven painless orders with them in the last 2-1/2 months. Maybe they upped their game recently.
 

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How are you gonna effectively ban an oring or an insulator or replacement glass? Chinese retailers never list the exact items that are in the envelope/box anyway. + no customs scanner is going to know what a Kayfun or Taifun or Subtank or whatever insulator looks like. It's just a piece of plastic.
All it would take is for a vendor to get flagged and they are done.
 

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Wont matter long run for me as I will rebuild them if they are duds. Reviews indicate they are the BDC.

The wick holes are also small which tells me they may not be cotton, in case that matter to someone. The original nautilus heads had those small holes before they started using cotton.
 

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Surprised at how many people on this thread use Eightvape. They have a really bad rep on other forums I am a member of. Never used them myself bu tthey have always come across as scammy to me. Too many hoops to jump through just to get a deal. lol
I have always said that they are not known for their customer service. Their prices are the only thing keeping them in business.
 

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Wont matter long run for me as I will rebuild them if they are duds. Reviews indicate they are the BDC.
I won’t lie. I tried to rebuild one of those coils very early into my vaping life. Watched a Rip Trippers tutorial. I could not do it, lol. How y’all are able to rebuild dropins just amazes me. Kudos.
 

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I won’t lie. I tried to rebuild one of those coils very early into my vaping life. Watched a Rip Trippers tutorial. I could not do it, lol. How y’all are able to rebuild dropins just amazes me. Kudos.

It's not for everyone. I hate doing it myself. But when times get tough, you'll do it, if you saved your coil heads that is.

These things help...
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It's not for everyone. I hate doing it myself. But when times get tough, you'll do it, if you saved your coil heads that is.

These things help...

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I only have one tank with anything resembling a stockpile of prebuilt...my beloved FireLuke Mesh, which is now put away in exchange for the Serpent Elevate (also the Topside/Profile combo, and an MVP3 with KF2019). I have enough coils for the FireLuke to last a little more than a year, but those are being treated like a part of my other stash now. I bought a pack of coils for it whenever there was a sale, or whenever I visited a B&M. Sadly, some boxes were bought from B&M Going Out of Business sales, so I got them for a good deal, with only a little mind to “stock up for later.”

I’m sure there will be a day or a need for use of them, if I just don’t feel like building, or am traveling and don’t want to worry about bringing along a build kit.

As for me, it would take a very dire circumstance to try to rebuild a dropin again, but I love it that it can be done. :)
 

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I won’t lie. I tried to rebuild one of those coils very early into my vaping life. Watched a Rip Trippers tutorial. I could not do it, lol. How y’all are able to rebuild dropins just amazes me. Kudos.
That is where I started with building coils. Rebuilding drop ins. At the time I was too broke to keep buying new coils.
 

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Maybe they upped their game recently.

Nope, IMO...same old crappy customer service. I ordered a Zenith tank in Purple. It came, I opened it, lifted it out of the box by the drip tip (never even touched the bottom of the tank). According to the underside of the tank...it looked to be already used! Notice the dried, beige and brown, "yuck" in numerous places, which appears to be old eliquid to me, and the plainly visible fingerprint in the hazy stuff on the left.

I opened a ticket, and 12 days went by with no response. They then emailed me about 8PM one night and asked for a picture of it. I sent the 1 below, early the next morning. That was on November 13th. Absolutely NO response from them since then...even though I've emailed them again.

Here's what the underside of the tank looks like, just as it was received!
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