Hey, all - last week I posted a frustrated screed (is there any other kind?) against Blu here:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/447333-whatever-you-do-dont-go-blu.html
I thought I'd post a top thread here to reply, since I kind of like how things have worked out. I retract nothing. We're going on 9 days and they still haven't shipped my last order, but that's all right - because I was incentivized to look around a bit, as a result of which two things have happened:
1. I switched to eGo-style vaping (it's a Kanger Evod battery, if that matters); and
2. I located a great local source of juice and advice in the form of a smoke shop. That might not seem like much of an accomplishment, but this is a very small town. Their juice and battery selection is actually about as broad as is their selection of 'tobacco' water pipes. And they have a hell of a lot of 'tobacco' water pipes. Some real beauties, too - blown glass, multiple colors, just really lovely bits of work. Makes me wish I smoked 'tobacco'.
Currently I'm using a mix of two flavors: 'Desert Ship' (a Camel taste-alike) and 'Tiramisu' (which is exactly what it sounds like). The blend is very pleasant, at least to my palate, and at 18mg of nicotine, it gets me nicely up without making me feel god-awful.
At $30 for an eGo starter kit, I was probably a damned fool not to do more research before I went electronic, since of course the Blu kits cost the same and give you a fraction of the usability. But I've been off analog cigarettes for years, subsisting on nic lozenges and cigars - ha, no inhaling - and I really did miss the other aspects of smoking. Well, I've done learned a bit of a lesson.
The plastic clearomizer that came with the kit cracked after a day, though - hooray for QA in manufacturing - so I decided to stop being a cheep bastid and picked up something with a little more staying power, a tank like this one:
http://www.dhgate.com/product/kanger-pyrex-clearomizer-pro-tank-changeable/164761079.html
As you may imagine, it looks kinda goofy on a 650 mAh battery, but I've got a 1K pass-through on the way. It'll probably look just as goofy, but it'll be taller.
Most fun of all, my wife is now also vaping as of this weekend, though with a 0mg peach-flavored juice for now. She's never smoked; she just likes the puffs and the flavor. She'd tried some flavored hookah smoke a while back and liked it, and she's tickled by the way the vapor spreads in clouds around her.
After repeated calls to Blu they credited my order account for $25, which I guess I'll use on cartridges, since they screw into the big battery and work as well as you'd expect. I've also got a friend who uses them and seems to like them, so he might just end up inheriting the entire works from me. I'm done with them.
So I guess it all worked out, sorta kinda.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/447333-whatever-you-do-dont-go-blu.html
I thought I'd post a top thread here to reply, since I kind of like how things have worked out. I retract nothing. We're going on 9 days and they still haven't shipped my last order, but that's all right - because I was incentivized to look around a bit, as a result of which two things have happened:
1. I switched to eGo-style vaping (it's a Kanger Evod battery, if that matters); and
2. I located a great local source of juice and advice in the form of a smoke shop. That might not seem like much of an accomplishment, but this is a very small town. Their juice and battery selection is actually about as broad as is their selection of 'tobacco' water pipes. And they have a hell of a lot of 'tobacco' water pipes. Some real beauties, too - blown glass, multiple colors, just really lovely bits of work. Makes me wish I smoked 'tobacco'.
Currently I'm using a mix of two flavors: 'Desert Ship' (a Camel taste-alike) and 'Tiramisu' (which is exactly what it sounds like). The blend is very pleasant, at least to my palate, and at 18mg of nicotine, it gets me nicely up without making me feel god-awful.
At $30 for an eGo starter kit, I was probably a damned fool not to do more research before I went electronic, since of course the Blu kits cost the same and give you a fraction of the usability. But I've been off analog cigarettes for years, subsisting on nic lozenges and cigars - ha, no inhaling - and I really did miss the other aspects of smoking. Well, I've done learned a bit of a lesson.
The plastic clearomizer that came with the kit cracked after a day, though - hooray for QA in manufacturing - so I decided to stop being a cheep bastid and picked up something with a little more staying power, a tank like this one:
http://www.dhgate.com/product/kanger-pyrex-clearomizer-pro-tank-changeable/164761079.html
As you may imagine, it looks kinda goofy on a 650 mAh battery, but I've got a 1K pass-through on the way. It'll probably look just as goofy, but it'll be taller.
Most fun of all, my wife is now also vaping as of this weekend, though with a 0mg peach-flavored juice for now. She's never smoked; she just likes the puffs and the flavor. She'd tried some flavored hookah smoke a while back and liked it, and she's tickled by the way the vapor spreads in clouds around her.
After repeated calls to Blu they credited my order account for $25, which I guess I'll use on cartridges, since they screw into the big battery and work as well as you'd expect. I've also got a friend who uses them and seems to like them, so he might just end up inheriting the entire works from me. I'm done with them.
So I guess it all worked out, sorta kinda.
