I didn't realise you already had an OTM so I can certainly see the need being less.
Then again.. for me it just feels like such a bargain. I don't put value on authentic for the sake of authentic, so the low price doesn't devalue it for me. I think many authentic atomizers are over priced for what they are, then again those are the prices and if one wants that ultimate quality/reliability/design, one often has to pay that price. Not always - I consider my recent purchases of three Hotcigs, the Rose v2-s, the Taifun GT2 and Taifun GS2 to be practically perfect 1:1 save for packaging (which is fine, I prefer non-cloned packaging to reduce risk of fraud.) Ditto my Infinite Kayfun v4s, save for their screws which I was able to replace with better screws from eBay.
But in the case of the v2, I never managed to get an OTM, and while the clones were more than good enough to give me a great vape, they were always lacking just a little bit. And were not guaranteed to last the long haul - out of my six v2 clones, I only have three usable ones now: I've had two broken positive posts, including one where the brass pole literally snapped in half, and one munged negative post that won't take a screw any more.
So for me it was easy, I'll have two new authentics, which will have the right screws, and should last as long as I want to use them, and I'll probably retire two of the v2 clones. And then I have a bunch of clone spares if I do end up losing a chimney or something. (The third v2 clone that annoyingly I only got the other day, before I saw this deal, I have put back in the box and will probably give away.)
Personally I want a lot of tanks. I have a lot of mods - 14 and counting - and I like having a huge range of flavours on the go at once, so I never vape the same flavour for too long. If I do, it starts to very quickly lose intensity and pleasure. I don't get the best flavour to start with, and I've learned that the best way to maximise what I get is to be constantly vaping different flavours. And then I just hate cleaning, so I suppose my ideal number of good tanks would be 42
Three per mod: one active, one awaiting cleaning, the third having hopefully been cleaned by the time I want to swap out flavour.I'm half joking
I don't really plan to get a rotation of 42 good quality tanks. And half the time I change flavours just by dry burning the coil and wiping the tank/chimney/deck with some IPA. But for me it's the more the merrier, at least the way I'm vaping right now. For me an authentic worth about $100 delivered (the price I'd pay for a new Aqua SE in the UK) for $45 delivered is an excellent deal. If they were $16 each + a single postage fee, I might have got six
Then I'd always have a clean, good tank to pick up and build at any time in the next several months, even if I'd managed to let all the others get dirty.I admit I'm a little excessive..
