China Suppliers - My experience...so far

[brewster3006]

Being relatively new to the vaping world, I wanted to catch up fast..so I spent much of my Thanksgiving holidays searching for the best priced supplies on the net and increasing my knowledge as much as I could. I ordered a bunch of stuff from general vaping equipment to DIY supplies. I ordered several hundred bucks worth of supplies.

I already posted here that the cheapest supplies in US supplies were from VaporLeaf, VaporStation, Perfumer's Apprentice, and MyVaporStore. I had all good expeiences with all my orders. However, I also spun the wheel on Chinese suppliers for mostly e liquids and DIY liquids. I braced myself for trouble with them, but was amazed to find very little!

I ordered from three Chinese suppliers: Eastmall - (the best and slickest Chinese site) - three orders all came in accurate and timely from EMS (shipper). I took FULL advantage of their black Friday free shipping deals. A few labeling issues on some liquid, but awesome on all 3 orders overall. Not a glitch.
: e-cig.c-o-m - I ordered some Nic. VG base. I was amazed! This order landed on my doorstep from EMS 5 days after I placed it! The base was great, already mixed some nice tobacco flavors up...vaping them as we speak, as a matter of fact.
: e-liquid.cn - ok, read some not so nice reviews, but also some good ones. No one said they didn't get their order, just bad communication and delay. Placed a nice sized order for some kits but mostly some large quantities of Dekang liquid. By 7 days after the order, I noticed it was still in "processing". It was supposed to be out in 5 days. So, I sent an email. Within 24 hours I had a reply and an EMS tracking number. Assuming it will come in accurate, great, not a perfect experience, but certainly not bad either!

Overall, I have had a pretty darn good experience with these Chinese suppliers both in their products and the order experience. I will ABSOLUTELY be ordering more from theses three. The shipping is high, but for some equipment and e liquids and nic. base in quantity, hell yeah man, I am saving some serious money over domestic supplier prices.

 

[mynameisrob]

The only thing that I dont like about Chinese suppliers is that they sometimes dont have the same QC standards. For PVs and stuff it doesnt really matter too much, but for nic juice, that makes me alittle weary. Nic juice that is off could not only be dangerous, but deadly, so be careful. Ive tried a few juices from Chinese suppliers and wasnt a fan of some of them. I hate not knowing what is in them. Good to hear though that all your orders went smoothly though!

 

[silenthunder]

I was wondering about PV quality - whether it might be fake etc. Have you actually purchased any PV from a chinese supplier - and what was it? Now that you've mentioned not too much issue with it I might start looking around again.

 

[Retriever]

I am looking for a new pv, and plan on getting a US made one if I can.

 

[brewster3006]

The e liquid from e-liquid.cn is genuine Dekang, as verified by several other forum members who ordered from them, so no worries there. The nic. base I got from e-liq.c-o-m was off a bit. I ordered pure VG with 60mg of nic.. I figured I'd cut it by 2/3 (2 parts VG and one part their nic. VG base), that would leave me with a 20mg and I puff 24mg normally (Marlboro red smoker here). Took a very, very tiny puff and figured it had to be about a 30mg end result, so I reduced the nic base by another third and kept the other base quantities the same and...BLISS! I know, I need to get a nic. test kit and ABSOLUTELY will, but not an error here that would have damaged me...this time. lol

 

[brewster3006]

I am a KR808 cartomizer user with an adapter on a 501 ego 900mAh battery or a KR808 bypass. Got the batteries from Eastmall and I will only use Kanger made cartomizers and I got those from MyVaporStore and will be ordering more from VaporStation.