they are stifling innovation and supporting not the vaping industry but the illegal economy in the capital of counterfeit,
So please, do go on how say, Yiloong and their Foggers are straight up, cheap counterfits of another identical atty that ended up only costing a fraction of your standard authentic.
Have you ever worked in a machine shop? Have you ever cut threads? Have you ever gotten off your ivory tower and used your hands on a lathe to turn a mod? Use a CNC machine? CAD/CAM designware? Do you know what a thread mill is?
You do realize that, for essentially a little trinket/piece of functional art, the ONLY thing that matters is the end result and price, right? Your efficiency in creating the product is entirely your problem, that your customers really don't know nor care about.
I went through a similar problem with my photo business - I get paid only an X amount for a given shoot, and if I want to attract the general mass of customers, the time it takes me to process and develop all the photos is MY problem. No client will pay extra just because it took me extra effort or some hiccups. So designers of expensive authentics could well contract some efficient factory to create enough of their product to whatever spec desired, like what Eciggity did with Ehpro for the Billow.
Then lets look at some of the plain, exactly-the-same looking simple 18650 tube mech mods. Authentic is just a plain, smooth metal tube with a button; a clone is the same exact thing. No real innovation in either, but what's the point of spending upwards of $100 more for a minor QC difference if that? It's easier to argue say, Smok Magneto vs a clone, it's only $30 difference for a more premium feel and same exact function.
Support the USA, buy made in America products, and let Americans have jobs with dignity, and stop buying retrofitted crap that comes out a week after the original. If you can't afford it now, save your money and buy it wheen you can afford it, or don't buy it at all.
Thing is, if your product sits at a sky-high price while being aimed at the primary consumer mass, you'll have more stock than sales regardless of patriotism. Plus it's not like as an inventor of 1 piece of gear and access to the machinery you'd create enough new jobs for people, that some customers only buy once in a blue moon.
