best eliquid that is under 35cents per ml

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*disclaimer* please no mt baker vapor recommendations. i have tried them, and thought the quality of the liquid was poor*

i'm looking to find more gourmet quality, but inexpensive liquids. i am going to be transitioning into dripping/rebuilding soon, and i need cheaper juice. i know that when i drip, i will be going through much more juice, so i want something less costly.

the only vendor i have come across so far that is super cheap, and super good, is vapor jam

i have been wanting to try itcvapes and vapeshack808. i hear they are outstanding, and at a low price. true?

*edit* thx for some of the replys, but i wanted to add that i am not interested in DIY
 
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*disclaimer* please no mt baker vapor recommendations. i have tried them, and thought the quality of the liquid was poor*

i'm looking to find more gourmet quality, but inexpensive liquids. i am going to be transitioning into dripping/rebuilding soon, and i need cheaper juice. i know that when i drip, i will be going through much more juice, so i want something less costly.

the only vendor i have come across so far that is super cheap, and super good, is vapor jam

i have been wanting to try itcvapes and vapeshack808. i hear they are outstanding, and at a low price. true?

I've been pleased with EC Blend, they're quite inexpensive. They do seem to require a bit of steep time, especially the tobacco flavors, because they mix to order. But they're dirt cheap -- 5ml for $2.50; 15ml for $5.95 even when I got an extra flavor shot and cool hit added.

MyFreedomSmokes, but they mainly seem to excel at tobacco flavors, and you have to get the bigger size bottles (30ml and up) to see much savings. I haven't been totally pleased with sweet flavors from them; the apricot wasn't bad, but their french vanilla wasn't too good. Snickerdoodle isn't bad at all. For a good tobacco flavor, their PG-blend Virginia is great, my all day/every day constant, no matter what else I may be vaping.

Andria

EDIT: also -- keep an eye on the weekend blitz sales at killer-juice.com -- they put a different variety of juices on sale for 99 cents for 15ml every weekend -- the past weekend I got 4 flavors and even with shipping it was under $8 -- and K-J's juices are really good.
 
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Honestly, as others have suggested, I would highly recommend getting into making your own juices if you want to save the most money. It's so simple that I wish I had looked into it a long time ago. Once I started dripping I have been burning through 5-10ml a day pretty easily and the price of buying juice from vendors was getting a bit high. It usually runs around 10-15 cents per ml when you DIY so you can save a lot of money and have fun creating and following different recipes available online. There is a site with a large database of recipes you can find by googling "ejuice recipes" (It should be the top result).

The process is so simple. There are calculators available online where you input the pg/vg ratio you want, the nicotine level, the amount of flavor you wish to use (usually between 10-20% but depends on the recipe), and the amount of ejuice you wish to make. The calculator will then tell you the exact amount in ml of each ingredient to mix in the bottle.

Since I started making my own juice, I have found and created quite a few recipes that taste very good. Some of my favorites are vanilla custard, cake batter, watermelon & apple, pear & melon, and many many more.

Prices vary depending on where you get your ingredients from but you can buy very high quality pg/vg right on amazon for around $12 a quart. 1 quart = 946ml. That's a lot of juice. The concentrated water soluble food flavors cost around $3 for a 10ml bottle (you usually use around 1-2ml of total flavoring per 10ml bottle you make).

If this is something you are interested in but you feel a bit worried with finding the ingredients and knowing what/where to buy just PM me and I'll give you a more detailed list with links to what you would want to buy to get started and break everything down for you(I don't know if this forum would allow me to post the links here so I'll send them to you in a pm if you want them). I'd also suggest checking youtube for an instructional video about making your own juices and you will see exactly how easy it is.
 

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It may be easy to mix stuff together. What is NOT easy at all is 1) figuring out what flavors to buy; what manufacturer of which flavor is good, and which is horrible (it's really a crap shoot!); and 2) waiting around for DIY to steep. If you need it NOW (or sometime before 3-6 wks from now), then EC Blend, or the weekend blitz sales at killer-juice.com are your best bets. EC Blend has a 25% off e-liquid sale going on right now, for their 3rd anniversary -- coupon code ANNIVERSARY25.

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I haven't DIY'ed in a while because I learned that a lot of inexpensive suppliers can do it a much better than I. Even some of the cheaper ones like ECBlends. Plenty of choices there for under 25 cents/ml. (But like Andria says, they need some steeping especially the tobaccos).

EC Blend has a 25% off e-liquid sale going on right now, for their 3rd anniversary -- coupon code ANNIVERSARY25.
When the 25% discount ends, this coupon will still get you 20% off: 10020
 

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Dekang juices from Welcome to Hoosier E-Cig - The Best E-cigs, Juices, and accesories is $10.99 for 50ml. That's 22 cents per milliliter and they carry 19 flavors in various nic levels.

I buy it a lot and find it to be good juice for the money
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I'd love to try the Dekang VA Blend to see if it's true what I read here, that MyFreedomSmokes' ejuice is just rebranded Dekang, but the lowest mg that Hoosier seems to carry is 11mg -- much too high for me. :( I don't get these places that don't carry 6mg or 8mg for those who don't need whopping doses of nicotine.

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Dekang juices from Welcome to Hoosier E-Cig - The Best E-cigs, Juices, and accesories is $10.99 for 50ml. That's 22 cents per milliliter and they carry 19 flavors in various nic levels.

I buy it a lot and find it to be good juice for the money
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I just dropped $50 on some assorted Dekang. All Tobaccos. Been meaning to try it. I hope the "Desert Ship" is close enough to the Camel juice I vaped from a now defunct supplier.

My expectations are always low these days so no big deal if it doesn't work out. It's certainly cheap enough not to worry about it and I love when a really "cheap" juice gets a position in my rotation.
 

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if it's true what I read here, that MyFreedomSmokes' ejuice is just rebranded Dekang,
I did not know that. Interesting.


but the lowest mg that Hoosier seems to carry is 11mg -- much too high for me. :( I don't get these places that don't carry 6mg or 8mg for those who don't need whopping doses of nicotine.
I agree. Especially for the all day "drippers" out there.
 

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Walmart sells 177ml bottles of cloud juice for around $0.04 a ml or less.

I'm not sure if your expecting $1.00 a ml quality out of a juice priced at 1/3 the price, but there is generally a lot less going on in those lower priced juices than in the better ones.

You can sometimes mix flavors together and dilute with VG to come up with something nice, but as everyone has suggested DIY is the way to go for cost effectiveness. Premium quality in your DIY really depends on how dedicated you are to making a flavor pop. It can take months or more, or you might nail it on day one, nobody can predict.

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I just dropped $50 on some assorted Dekang. All Tobaccos. Been meaning to try it. I hope the "Desert Ship" is close enough to the Camel juice I vaped from a now defunct supplier.

My expectations are always low these days so no big deal if it doesn't work out. It's certainly cheap enough not to worry about it and I love when a really "cheap" juice gets a position in my rotation.

Yeah I think my own expectations have suffered that lowering, too. I just got my vapemail from killer juice, 4 flavors that sound fantastic, but I'm procrastinating trying them... well those coils and all that hardware needed cleaning anyway, right? ;) You can't try new juices with dirty coils and hardware and old wicks! :D

I've got some of the "Turkish" from Halo, one of my very early and misguided purchases. If I taste it now, I remember oh yeah, I never liked Camels! :D

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It may be easy to mix stuff together. What is NOT easy at all is 1) figuring out what flavors to buy; what manufacturer of which flavor is good, and which is horrible (it's really a crap shoot!); and 2) waiting around for DIY to steep. If you need it NOW (or sometime before 3-6 wks from now), then EC Blend, or the weekend blitz sales at killer-juice.com are your best bets. EC Blend has a 25% off e-liquid sale going on right now, for their 3rd anniversary -- coupon code ANNIVERSARY25.

Andria

I am confused about a few things in your post.
1) How is figuring out which concentrated flavors to buy when making your own juice any different than having to figure out which flavors to buy from ejuice vendors online? Some of them taste horrible, some taste good (It's really a crap shoot!). The only difference is that it's much cheaper to buy concentrated flavors and test them out than buying a vendor ejuice and throwing the whole thing down the drain when it sucks. At least with the concentrated flavors you may find a use for it with a different recipe in the future.

2) EC Blend does not pre-steep their house blend juice. What you buy from them is made to order and the only steeping it goes through is the 3-5 day shipping time it takes to get to you. I don't know where you came up with 3-6 weeks of steep time for DIY juice, it's made the exact same way as ejuice from most all of the online vendors (pg+vg+nic+flavor). I have been making my own juice for a while now and rarely do I ever steep for more than a few days. With most of the fruit flavors I find that I can mix, shake, and vape right away and they taste great.

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EC Blend and other vendors don't make their juice with magic. They likely buy PG+VG by the barrel at extremely low costs and just whip together the exact same recipe you can find and make yourself and sell it to you for 5x the cost. It doesn't require any less or any more steeping than DIY juice because it's made with the exact same stuff.
 
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I am confused about a few things in your post.
1) How is figuring out which concentrated flavors to buy when making your own juice any different than having to figure out which flavors to buy from ejuice vendors online? Some of them taste horrible, some taste good (It's really a crap shoot!). The only difference is that it's much cheaper to buy concentrated flavors and test them out than buying a vendor ejuice and throwing the whole thing down the drain when it sucks. At least with the concentrated flavors you may find a use for it with a different recipe in the future.

2) EC Blend does not pre-steep their house blend juice. What you buy from them is made to order and the only steeping it goes through is the 3-5 day shipping time it takes to get to you. I don't know where you came up with 3-6 weeks of steep time for DIY juice, it's made the exact same way as ejuice from most all of the online vendors (pg+vg+nic+flavor). I have been making my own juice for a while now and rarely do I ever steep for more than a few days. With most of the fruit flavors I find that I can mix, shake, and vape right away and they taste great.

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EC Blend and other vendors don't make their juice with magic. They likely buy PG+VG by the barrel at extremely low costs and just whip together the exact same recipe you can find and make yourself and sell it to you for 5x the cost. It doesn't require any less or any more steeping than DIY juice because it's made with the exact same stuff.

What they have, that I don't, is experience and knowledge. It takes time to acquire both of those. If you want/need ejuice within a short time, it's better to buy it pre-made. If it's awful, sure, you have to let it steep more and see if it turns out ok later, and you have to buy something else -- but buying something else is much quicker than trying to learn what you need to know to make GOOD ejuice.

DIY ejuice is a great idea, I'm starting to learn it myself. But it's not something that can be learned quickly. Some folks may get lucky with good flavor choices right off the bat -- unfortunately I'm not one of them. I've tried some ejuices that weren't very good, but improved with time; some were so awful I'll probably never try them again, but I havne't thrown any of them away. Unlike my DIY experiments -- down the drain with those.

The magic is the experience and knowledge, and that's really what you're paying for, when you buy pre-made juice. Learning to make your own takes a good bit more time than learning to build and wick coils -- you can learn to build coils in a few hours; you can learn to wick them well within a few weeks of trying different things. Learning DIY is more of a months/years kind of learning curve. Most of us don't want to put vaping on hold for the length of time it takes to learn DIY.

Andria
 
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