I know this is an old adage, but today what I saw sicken me. I was at a flea market, and they had several booths set up for "e-smoking". Myself being a vaper, I had to stop at all of them and chat, possibly buy and get a deal on some stuff. Out of the 5 or so booths I stopped at, only 2 had any idea of what model of ecig they were selling, and what their "e liquid" had in it. I asked all of them if they had any 510 attys, and if their juice was pg, vg or a mix. 3 of them looked at me in confusion, told me they did not know. All but two where also charging outrageous prices for a kit. I am not talking a little hike up either to make a profit, Im talking a kit you can find online for 40 bucks selling for 150. Out of the other two that sounded like they knew what they were talking about, one straight up lied to me about his supplier's eliquid, telling me that it was one of the only liquids approved by the FDA, and made in a FDA approved lab, which, I thought no e liquid was approved by the FDA. Hopefully someone can prove me wrong though, and there is an FDA approved liquid, because I really hate being lied to. This same guy also wanted 20 bucks for 10ml of liquid, I kindly listened to him spew forth lies from his mouth, (he was saying is was more expensive because of the FDA thing) told him thank you but no thank you, and walked away. (I felt bad for the other people that were buying stuff from him, but I wasn't going to ruin his business) Then I get to the final guy of the day. He had all kind of kits, a few different models as well as reasonable prices. I chatted with him for about 10 min or so, and decided to drop a few bucks his way, figured that 5 bucks for an atty and 5 bucks for 10 ml of nic juice was not that bad. However I left my ecig in the car, so I couldn't test the atty or the liquid. The guy seemed legit and assured me that it was high quality, and after a visual inspection of the atty, I went with it. I finally get back to the the car and pop in the new atty, blow it out and drop a few drops of my go to liquid I had in the car. I get a loud hiss and a small pop/gurgle sound when I took a puff, along with no vapor. I take another, still nothing. At this point I am worried that it might be a bad atty and that its going to fry my battery, I stopped messing with it, and screwed in my old atty. Then I went to try the juice I got. You know that taste when you had a few to many beers, and ash your analogs into your last bit of beer and forget, and then take a drink of your warm beer and ashed cig? Well take that swill, concentrate it then mix it into eliquid and vape and you have a good idea of what this stuff tasted like. I would of returned both items, but my kid was melting down and did not have time. So Anyways, long story short, be wary of people trying to sale you e cigs. Do your research. Ask questions. In fact, just listen to ECF and the people here. Every time I do not, I regret it.
