And to me it seems still to spend $200-$300 on a battery tube.
Sure it's silly to spend $200-$300 on a battery tube, no more so than $300 + for a hat. But the hat pleases me and as such it is worth what I paid for it. The same goes for any device really, they are worth what you are willing to pay.
If you aren't willing or able to pay the $200-$300 on a battery tube then whatever design in that price range is not for you. It should be obvious that there are alternatives.
Different strokes. Again, how is there ZERO culpability on the creators to A) protect their own product and B) make more of them.
Would you be upset if someone walked into your home and stole everything you ever worked for? Or maybe your car gets keyed in the parking lot, because you failed to put it in a car cover? If someone pops you in the mouth is it your fault for not moving fast enough? It is exactly the same concept, you shouldn't have to put up walls and locks and guards to preserve what you have worked for, leaving your stuff alone should be a common courtesy world wide. Your blaming the victims, and laughing about the injury you know your causing.
Are you blaming the mod designer for not making enough? They make as many as they like. But for giggles I'd like to take that idea a step farther. Passing the blame onto others is really all this is, failing to accept responsibility for ones own actions is a huge issue. You can say the mods were on the market already, and that's where the wrong happened but that doesn't make your purchase a good act, it is a supporting wrong in and of itself. Even if you go all the way back to the mod maker himself, the clone is still wrong, and buying a clone is still wrong.
Not everyone can get their hands on something if they only make a couple hundred or 999 of them. The other thing you aren't taking in to consideration are people that are just getting in to it. They go to a vape shop, it's for sale, they like it, they buy it. And? Are they the scum of the Earth for not assuming that that is "wrong?"
Correct, but really now; is everyone in the world so entitled these days that they thing they should be able to have what everyone else has, there aren't enough Bugatti Veyron's to go around either, or plots of land on beaches, or whatever it is that is for some reason universally desired? Those things, those desires, they are the stuff that motivates us to work hard and move ahead. It will be a sad day indeed when you see a Bugatti Veyron change hands for $500 like my first car did back in the day. If you have no goals that are even just slightly out of reach you have no reason to push yourself to be better. That is sad.
I think somewhere earlier I indicated that knowingly buying a clone is an ethical issue, there is certainly no way ethics can come into play if you have no idea that you are buying a clone. One would assume upon learning that something is a clone the situation changes somewhat.
The little Donkey mod posted earlier in this thread is interesting in that it has a profiled exterior, and it only costs around $50, is but one example. There are more than enough vaping devices to go around that aren't clones.
Life's short. Is this really worth being upset over? A battery tube. It's a frickin' tube, man.
Absolutely it is worth it! When folks are proudly walking around spouting HaHa stupid idiot didn't patent his design so now there are a million clones out there and I'm going to save $150. Stupid idiots that bought originals, they payed $200-$300 on a battery tube that looks just like this clone I payed $50 for, idiots.
Maurice
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