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You got some mad Mandarin skills we didnt know about @*RJ* ?
:laugh: No, but I impressed JC with my googling skills. Nowhere near as good as her though. The whole thing was fun. Reminded me of trying to find the starry night blade. :)
 

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So even though I've been through this a couple times I need some reassurance January 8th my fasttech shipment arrived
*Inbound into customs.* then...
*Processed thru facility.* then
*nothing*...
I had a date on it which was yesterday which I knew was unrealistic because it never said outbound out of customs. It's Miami ISC
Even though the 8th was Wednesday and it didn't move Thursday or Friday it's not Unusual right? It's just sitting somewhere after being scanned waiting for the rest of the procedure is what I imagined but my panicky side is telling me that there's a problem even though I imagine these things take time in the past this is always happened within two business days
 

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So even though I've been through this a couple times I need some reassurance January 8th my FastTech shipment arrived
*Inbound into customs.* then...
*Processed thru facility.* then
*nothing*...
I had a date on it which was yesterday which I knew was unrealistic because it never said outbound out of customs. It's Miami ISC
Even though the 8th was Wednesday and it didn't move Thursday or Friday it's not Unusual right? It's just sitting somewhere after being scanned waiting for the rest of the procedure is what I imagined but my panicky side is telling me that there's a problem even though I imagine these things take time in the past this is always happened within two business days
I am sure you are fine... I have like 5 shipments coming from them, 2 have been hung up since they arrived in the US for almost 2 weeks now. That has happened to me more than a few times... and sometimes the packages just miraculously showed up in my mailbox, even though the tracking said they were at customs. lol
 
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Yeah @JCinFLA and I put our heads together and looked everywhere for the exos without any luck. We all know how awesome JC is in finding things as she’s got major skills as witnessed on this thread. We had no luck. I even contacted ijoy in China and they said it was old and no longer available through them. It was fun looking with JC though. She’s a hoot! :wub:
There were these that I found, not sure if they are in stock, but nowhere near the price we were paying :( :
$12 each here, but $7 shipping:
iJoy Exo-S Single Coil RTA
EDIT: It looks like these are gone now... NM, sorry about that.
 
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There were these that I found, not sure if they are in stock, but nowhere near the price we were paying :( :

EDIT: It looks like these are gone now... NM, sorry about that.
I found those the other day before you posted about them but my payment wouldn’t go through and vapehappy and I were emailing back and forth and someone with no payment problems snatched them up in the meantime after you posted it. :lol: I only have those revenger tanks that use them so I bought dropins instead. My main tanks I’m well stocked up on. So I’m happy. Vapehappy folks are very nice people if you ever do business with them.
 
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I am sure you are fine... I have like 5 shipments coming from them, 2 have been hung up since they arrived in the US for almost 2 weeks now. That has happened to me more than a few times... and sometimes the packages just miraculously showed up in my mailbox, even though the tracking said they were at customs. lol
Yikes 2 weeks lol but hey two weeks is nothing so long as they come nobody orders things from China that they need that moment thanks for the reassurance.

I just hope that they come on through before the end of the 30-day grace. With flavored pods not because I have flavored pods in fact this order is just one RTA and a whole ton of wire and coils but I have no faith in the Customs and Border Patrol knowing the difference between a closed pod flavor filled product and an RTA.. especially since everything has to be labeled as having nicotine in it I'm sure they're going to be awfully confused by that and a lot of people are going to get messages saying that this must be a flavored violation because it says there's nicotine LOL heck batteries are considered nicotine nowadays
 

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The California nic tax proposal would turn a $50 liter of nic into a $5,000 bottle. This is why vaping is such a disruptive technology. 5 years ago a carton a week cost me $3,000 a year. Cost of ingredients for a year of DIY eliquid is about $25. I remember when long distance phone calls were expensive. The internet made them free. I think government officials can't comprehend what has happened to their Golden Goose.

I'm waiting for several Vandy Vape Pulse 80w squonk mods from flawless.com, couldn't resist the free shipping and $20 (coupon) price. Yes there have been issues with the temp control but apparently firmware has been upgraded. Youtube reviewers say it resolves the TC issue. I don't have the mods yet but I'll be looking into that fix and hoping for the best. I find FT has OEM bottles available.
I thought it was interesting on the New Jersey proposed flavor ban how they originally were going after menthol cigarettes as part of it but then they had the gall to actually call it like it is and put the menthol cigarettes on hold stating they don't know what it will do to their 213 million dollar discretionary fund.

Like they honestly openly said yeah well we would ban menthol cigarettes except you know money... we want the money so we've got to do some more research into whether or not smokers will quit smoking or simply switch to non-menthol cigarettes which implies that is obviously what they want them to do so that they still get that money.

Meanwhile they are implying that they don't need to worry about the e-cigarette side of things because they're not getting any money from that anyhow other than regular taxes.

They're blatantly implying that they want people to smoke cigarettes by not going after menthol cigarettes until they can figure out whether or not people will simply just switch to regular cigarettes and therefore keep their 213 million dollars a year.

Politics has always been corrupt but now they don't even try to hide it they're openly saying they have no real problem with flavors in nicotine their only real concern is money and yet people who don't Vape aren't concerned about that even though that can be applied to literally everything. Hat it already applies to many things including seizures of property without even charging a person with a crime let alone convicting
 

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Yikes 2 weeks lol but hey two weeks is nothing so long as they come nobody orders things from China that they need that moment thanks for the reassurance.

I just hope that they come on through before the end of the 30-day grace. With flavored pods not because I have flavored pods in fact this order is just one RTA and a whole ton of wire and coils but I have no faith in the Customs and Border Patrol knowing the difference between a closed pod flavor filled product and an RTA.. especially since everything has to be labeled as having nicotine in it I'm sure they're going to be awfully confused by that and a lot of people are going to get messages saying that this must be a flavored violation because it says there's nicotine LOL heck batteries are considered nicotine nowadays
Fasttech usually labels everything as "filters" or some other product, not anything vape related if that helps any. lol
 

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Single coil. I checked the RBA with NRG tank and it does not fit. Need to check the others.
Base too wide for the NRG, or does it just not screw in, or...?

Djlsb's review of it was pretty positive, including on the rba. He noted the rba has really good flavor.

I ordered 1, using honey10 to bring it in at $12.50 shipped. It'll have no problem with the gt coils, and the rba will likely at least fit the skrr-s.
 
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    I hope this does not p-ss anyone off too much, but my eightvape order placed on the 9th at 11:44am, shipped the next day on the 10th at 10:14pm.

    Mine not only shipped in two days but arrived in two more and I got it yesterday.
     

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    For anyone who got that really bad oxidized (or something) nic from Nic River, I’ve been vaping it for two days. I decided to use it first since I have no more room in my freezer and it’s just in the fridge. It’s fine and it tastes no different than my other nic. Although I’m at 2 mg and use very little nic in my mixes anyway. To be fair, Nic River was very kind and replaced that bad liter for me promptly. But it vapes fine. Thought I’d let ya know. I was going to chuck it but decided to keep it.
     

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    There's another vendor, with locations in Nevada and New Jersey...whose quantity of them on their website page shows in excess of 900 in Stock! Before even thinking about placing an order on that one though...I called them. I was told, as the guy was laughing..."Yeah, that page shouldn't even be up. We don't even have any of those." When I told him I'd run into problems with another vendor in Nevada (Eight Vape, though I didn't name them), about the same item and even others...he said, "Lots of Nevada vendors' websites aren't showing what they actually have in stock lately. We're all trying to sell off what we can, as fast as we can... before having to pay the new 35% floor tax on our inventories." ;)
    Many years ago, beached in Vegas and desperate for a job, I took a few shady sales positions at places that ripped off both their customers and their employees. I was so glad to escape that place! And it gave me a lasting impression of Vegas business.
     

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    Thanks. I've already got empty glass bottles and use them for my mixed eLiquids for consumption.
    No, I think you're confused. You asked about getting nic in glass bottles, but that's what we use to store our nic in... We buy it in plastic bottles as most will no longer ship nic in glass and then we transfer the 100mg nic to glass.
     

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    Base too wide for the NRG, or does it just not screw in, or...?

    Djlsb's review of it was pretty positive, including on the rba. He noted the rba has really good flavor.

    I ordered 1, using honey10 to bring it in at $12.50 shipped. It'll have no problem with the gt coils, and the rba will likely at least fit the skrr-s.
    The RBA seems too wide at bottom to catch the threads in the base. I need to check the other tanks.
     
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    NCC

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    No, I think you're confused. You asked about getting nic in glass bottles, but that's what we use to store our nic in... We buy it in plastic bottles as most will no longer ship nic in glass and then we transfer the 100mg nic to glass.
    No confusion on this end. I'll use the plastic housed liquid I have on hand first and buy in glass from this point, with several distributors offering glass. A communication with them before purchase is in order to confirm.
     

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