Do the goofy names bother anyone?

[Sekasi]

They bother me a bit.

Ducks breath, derp sauce, hobbit blood, and other not only non-descriptive but also pretty goofy and borderline immature names of e juice?

Might just be too old to appreciate the humour (get off my lawn!) but it comes across as pretty amateur.

Just me?

 

[Dampmaskin]

Hourses for courses. There are some oddly named beers out there, too.

There are also lots of plainly named e-liquids to choose from.

 

[Phone Guy]

I find it ridiculous. I hate having to read the detailed descriptions to find out what the flavor profile is, or worse the reviews because the descriptions wont tell you.... we are reading online folks, we cant taste it first....you want our money, tell us what the juice taste like!

 

[AaronY]

Or Milk and Unicorn blood. I think strange names make it easier to remember juice. My

 

[Dampmaskin]

And it sets them apart in the market. There are many juices named "E-liquid - Strawberry flavor". There is just one (afaik) named "Unicorn Blood".

Hmmmm. Suddenly I feel the urge to buy a bottle to try it out.

 

[Rickajho]

Goofy and pointless names don't bother me. But tasteless/tacky and pointless names do. You won't ever see me buying Agent Orange or H1N1.

 

[Phone Guy]

I get the unique name thing, I dont agree with it, but I get it..... Castle long is one of my fav juices (maybe the fav), read the description...detailed and poetic.

Here's one I saw today on a podcast thing...never heard of this brand, they got 30% off right now, so the juice is like $12/30ml....

Toxic - Toxic Angels E-Juice

Toxic, ok...cool name, I get it...its green, ok cool... read the description.....................

Toxic is our lime green signature flavor. This complex flavor profile will keep you guessing, and definitely have you coming back for more! It is one of our Top Selling e-juices. It is not a menthol flavor, nor a dessert flavor, this is all we will tell you about this awesome flavor, and why? Shhhhh because it's a secret!

Seriously!? How am I supposed to order that? I had to read a review to guess what it is....

 

[TraceyS]

Im going for taste and what keeps me vaping. Could care less if I vape doodle....it is awesome. The H1N1 is catchy.....once the virus hits you, it hits you

Tracey

 

[Verb]

The market is flooded and they need to stand out. So, I get the funky names. Poor descriptions that include the words "can't be described" or "trust us" without any hint of the flavor annoy me because they wasted my time.

I'm still waiting for the completely over-the-top vulgar line of sauce names.

 

[SchmidtyKy]

I think some of the names are kind of annoying. You specifically mentioned Derp Sauce. I LOVE that stuff. I guess I love it so much they could call it anything they wanted and I would still buy it.

 

[GPC2012]

It's just marketing strategy. A strange or catchy name will come to mind more easily when you start shopping around for something new.

 

[GPC2012]

I get the unique name thing, I dont agree with it, but I get it..... Castle long is one of my fav juices (maybe the fav), read the description...detailed and poetic.

Here's one I saw today on a podcast thing...never heard of this brand, they got 30% off right now, so the juice is like $12/30ml....

Toxic - Toxic Angels E-Juice

Toxic, ok...cool name, I get it...its green, ok cool... read the description.....................

Toxic is our lime green signature flavor. This complex flavor profile will keep you guessing, and definitely have you coming back for more! It is one of our Top Selling e-juices. It is not a menthol flavor, nor a dessert flavor, this is all we will tell you about this awesome flavor, and why? Shhhhh because it's a secret!

Seriously!? How am I supposed to order that? I had to read a review to guess what it is....

Adventurous curiosity

 

[patkin]

I get it but don't particularly care for those I consider over the top or out of the popularized mainstream. Meaning, I may deduced that "Morning Sunrise" may have something to do with coffee but that same juice called some variant of "Mud"... nah... besides I would worry about my atties then. Mentioned the other day that my favorite ice cream is "Bunny Tracks" and without a picture on the carton I wouldn't have picked it up the first time. If you've never tried it can you tell me what's in it? But "so and so's #1, #2" and so on or "so and so's premium or deluxe? doesn't tell me much about a juice either so there you have it but at least I'm not uncomfortable telling someone offline what I'm vaping... "blood, mud or tears?"... really? But what I really dislike and, in fact, will pass on is a juice without a good... and I mean really good... description. If the juice was made by a true mixologist then they know exactly what went into making it and, thus, have an excellent jumping off point to describe it. If, however, they're just throwing a pre-mixed flavoring from a flavoring house into a base, they probably don't and can't describe it well. Calling the resulting juice something like the flavoring house calls it is going to divulge what they're doing. Even tobacco flavored juice names give me a problem when they DO use mainstream names. I know what Pall Mall, Winston, Salem, etc taste like but Dunhill? I know these tobacco flavors CAN be described because they do a very good job on pipe tobacco and cigar sites. Okay, rant over. Why a rant? Cause I've wasted too much money on juices with "catchy" names and no descriptions.... they won't be catching me anymore.

 

[v1k1ng1001]

I'm really not feeling the trend, by several vendors, of employing misogynistic sexual innuendos like "Panty Dropper" or "Juicy Melons" (with a picture of a woman holding watermelons up to her chest.) Even if you're fine with the whole objectifying-women-and-promoting-rape-culture-to-make-a-buck thing, from a marketing standpoint, it is stupid to potentially alienate half of your market. As an analogy, would you consider buying an ejuice titled "banana stiffy" or "coconut surprise" (with a picture of a guy holding up coconuts to his crotch?)

 

[daleron]

I guess vendor's can name their juice anything they want to but I won't buy anything named after a sex act

 

[classwife]

Careful please...that gutter is just right over there...

 

[zoiDman]

Some of the Crazy Names I have seen for e-Liquids Doesn't me. In Fact, I think Many of them are Hilarious.

But what it Does Do is Keep Me from trying Many of these Flavors. Because I have No Clue what Hobbit's Blood or Duck Breath e-Liquid is Supposed to Taste like.

And I Don't have the Time, or Desire, to do a search to find out what the Base Flavor of the e-Liquid is.

 

[WillyZee]

I've always wondered about venders who use the words toxic and killer in their names ... sounds like an accident waiting to happen.

Even if it was user related ... those names could come back to haunt them.

 

[Buggainok]

Okay, I'm going to show off and quote Shakespeare here:

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a commonly quoted part of a dialogue in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet argues that the names of things do not matter, only what things "are"

So, if they include a reasonable description of the flavors in the juice, the name they choose to call it is not terribly important to me.

 

[CloudZ]

I, like most vapers, couldn't care less about what a vendor chooses to call their e-liquid flavors. I do understand that the name of a product can cause certain customers to be more or less likely to buy it, but I tend to just let this work on a subconscious level instead of believing outright "this has a stupid name and I will not buy it". If I am enticed enough by the description or reviews, I will probably buy the product if I am in the market for it.

The lack of flavor description can be very annoying, and I am much less likely to buy unless everyone is raving about it and mentioning flavors that sound good to me. Vendors should at least state what it tastes like to them. While I do not like supporting vendors so arrogant that they feel they don't need to tell you what you are buying, I'm not going to pass up something that I might really like. The caveat is that if I end up being disappointed, they probably won't ever get my business again. This is especially true if they are charging more than $0.50/mL, which I consider my personal "overpriced cutoff" for online purchases. Above that I'll pay if I think it is really really good, otherwise I'm looking for a better deal next time. So I guess what really bothers me is the massive profit margins vendors expect for their e-liquid. However, I don't mind steering clear if the price is too high.