Does it really pay to go expensive?
So imagine you bought two of those $10 e-shishas off ebay and they both together last at least a year or two (if not more). CE4 clearomizers are $1 and let's say they last about a month. The cost of that would be $22 to $32 per year.
And this stuff just works. What do you want more? More and faster vapor, or what? There is already enough, it just works. If it some day doesn't work you just replace it.
You keep one of the two charging and one for vaping. Then you never run out of battery either, you can vape 24/7 without sleeping. Even more battery life maybe would be a bonus if you can't charge, but that's not my or most people's situation at all.
Now I have heard all sorts of rather curious reasons that people often mention why you should not use cheap equipment or why it is bad/boring/obsolete/dangerous/etc. One concern e.g. is that plastic is migrating into the liquid in CE4 clearomizers. Being somewhat educated about biochemistry and the behavior of the materials involved, I find that those reasons are rather pretty inflated and largely not happening, or irrelevant, or based on personal/emotional preferences.
The remaining reason to switch to expensive stuff is then only comfort: E.g. you have no auto-battery, you have to press the button all the time. Some people find refilling annoying but I find it useful (as a solid reminder how much I have vaped per day). Recharging two batteries daily maybe is one movement too much for some, I don't know. It seems rather ridiculous, considering it takes only 5-10 seconds to switch the batteries in the charger. To me those are really really minor aspects that don't warrant paying much extra for them at all.
I checked prices a bit and it seems that better quality tanks are sold for $30 or $6. Generally often recommended starter equipment is priced at $100. Quite a leap I think, that needs some consideration. Does it really pay off, given that there hardly is anything at all that could create additional benefit to product usage (at least viewed from a a pragmatic perspective) thus warrant much of a price increase.
Has someone actually done the math on this? I.e. a clearomizer that is 6 times more expensive has to last 6 times at long, or at least 4 or 5 times as long. But is this true? Has anyone calculated this through, and only then made the choice to switch to more expensive? What are the experiences here?
Or are most people switching to more expensive, only to have a more premium experience? Or to just try out new things, to fool around so to speak?
It looks like this to me, and I don't think it is wrong. But I mostly only care about price and health, so very pragmatic aspects. I feel somewhat lost with this perspective in the vaping communities.
So imagine you bought two of those $10 e-shishas off ebay and they both together last at least a year or two (if not more). CE4 clearomizers are $1 and let's say they last about a month. The cost of that would be $22 to $32 per year.
And this stuff just works. What do you want more? More and faster vapor, or what? There is already enough, it just works. If it some day doesn't work you just replace it.
You keep one of the two charging and one for vaping. Then you never run out of battery either, you can vape 24/7 without sleeping. Even more battery life maybe would be a bonus if you can't charge, but that's not my or most people's situation at all.
Now I have heard all sorts of rather curious reasons that people often mention why you should not use cheap equipment or why it is bad/boring/obsolete/dangerous/etc. One concern e.g. is that plastic is migrating into the liquid in CE4 clearomizers. Being somewhat educated about biochemistry and the behavior of the materials involved, I find that those reasons are rather pretty inflated and largely not happening, or irrelevant, or based on personal/emotional preferences.
The remaining reason to switch to expensive stuff is then only comfort: E.g. you have no auto-battery, you have to press the button all the time. Some people find refilling annoying but I find it useful (as a solid reminder how much I have vaped per day). Recharging two batteries daily maybe is one movement too much for some, I don't know. It seems rather ridiculous, considering it takes only 5-10 seconds to switch the batteries in the charger. To me those are really really minor aspects that don't warrant paying much extra for them at all.
I checked prices a bit and it seems that better quality tanks are sold for $30 or $6. Generally often recommended starter equipment is priced at $100. Quite a leap I think, that needs some consideration. Does it really pay off, given that there hardly is anything at all that could create additional benefit to product usage (at least viewed from a a pragmatic perspective) thus warrant much of a price increase.
Has someone actually done the math on this? I.e. a clearomizer that is 6 times more expensive has to last 6 times at long, or at least 4 or 5 times as long. But is this true? Has anyone calculated this through, and only then made the choice to switch to more expensive? What are the experiences here?
Or are most people switching to more expensive, only to have a more premium experience? Or to just try out new things, to fool around so to speak?
It looks like this to me, and I don't think it is wrong. But I mostly only care about price and health, so very pragmatic aspects. I feel somewhat lost with this perspective in the vaping communities.
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