When seeing the ads for Blu as well as first checking out various brands of ecigs listed in an ecig review I found that brand was simply too pricey! After first trying out a vanilla menthol disposable by Logic which two friends also tried we agreed those also were not what we were looking for! Then I bought Bloog starter kits for the holiday gifts to hand out
When price shopping later finding that their refillable Aurora blank cartimizers were the better buy while their prefilled carts wimped out! I tried their other blank carts and tossed. Then they just came out with their 650mah manual battery and clearomizers which also work out well on their 808 manual batteries. Unfortunately their 78mm automatics fail with one wearing out, one flashing when attaching a cart from a shorted battery apparentaly, and one came in DOA! The dozen 65mm automatics as well as their manual batteries 65mm, 78mm, and 102mm sizes have all been reliable however!
Before their 650 and clearomizers I took a leap at the Ego Vamo with the seaparate 18650 2250mah battery and tried out a few 5ml tanks. The first actully pulled apart seeing the cart and bottom separate from the clear plastic and then had to slap the cart out in order to fill that first. Surprisingly once I pushed the cart back in half way to fill it the first and later slapping that out again for a second fill the tank hasn't leaked. By then however a second tank with a locking DCT was ordered as well as several 510 type clearomizers only to find a few flavors that wouldn't bite!
During this time I also started price shopping some more as well as trying out different brands of eliquids! For the 808D size 180-250mah cigarette size batteries as well as refillable cartimizers the two other brands being considered almost equal to Bloog would be Vapor King and Halo as far as pricing on things which includes starter kits, spare battery, chargers, blank cartimizers, and even each brand's own liquids for sale. Blu, V2, and some others on the other hand did not offer refillable blank cartimizers or clearomizers at times depending on which brand. One brand's carts were good for 1 1/2 packs rather then the usual two packs ss far as seeing 400 puffs.
Besides those high priced brands others sell only prefilled cartimizers some being refillable note while some others charge several times as much to get the same things! ecigs brand is high priced! They offer a trial or one time buy options where the one time for 10 prefilled cartimizers equal to two 5 packs runs 4 times higher then what Bloog sells! The automatic batteries so far have been reliable and the brand gives a slight improvement in vapor while they only offer a sweeter Minty menthol or what they call regular tobacco that seems to only be a burnt taste in your mouth! The menthol isn't too bad while the prices are!