You mean VaporTek, not Vaperstek. Two different vendors. "Box only" means that the package contains only the iStick itself, but does not include a 510-to-eGo adapter, nor a micro usb cable for recharging. Some of us have lots of those, but if you don't, you'll have to buy them separately.
OK, I bit. Popped for a blue iStick from VapeNW via eBay for $33.39 shipped, in stock, estimated delivery by Thursday. Price has already dropped another buck forty to $31.99 since I jumped in a couple hours ago. LOL.
I bought one for the small size and extra power. For RDAs, Kayfuns, and my stable of bottom-feeders (REOs, Vapages, and Phids), I build single microcoils from 1-1.5 ohms, usually 28-29 gauge, with an occasional 26 gauge just for fun, using KGD cotton or rayon wicks. For EVOD-style clearos, I use the prefab 32ga 1.5 ohm NR-R-NR coils with silica wicks that are about 6¢ each in packs of 50 from fasttech. The only heads I don't rebuild are the BVC/BDC coils for Aspire Nautilus fulls and minis (too much trouble). I vape a lot of natural tobacco juices (home extracted from macerations), so I change coils/wicks often. No sub-ohming, though. I leave that to the cloud-chasers. Mostly, I just want to play with the extra wattage beyond what my VAMOs and Kicked Mechs provide at the moderate resistances I vape. I'd prefer replaceable batteries, but I can live with a soldered-in usb-recharged battery. The absence of buck circuitry doesn't matter to me, since I don't do any low-wattage vaping, but an upper end of 20 watts will be quite sufficient.
In Candi's YouTube review, she used a 1.4 ohm single-coil Octopus dripper set to 20 watts and got a warm vape with big clouds (at least the vapor appeared dense and copious on video). Admittedly, Candi was merely looking at the display rather than using test equipment to verify those numbers. If the iStick was actually delivering 20 watts to the atomizer at 1.4 ohms, then it's pumping out 3.78 amps. If true, that would be impressive, and ample for my needs. Even if the amp limit is only 3.5, however, I'll be happy. (If it turns out to be as low as 3.0 amps, though, I might feel a bit scammed... Time will tell on that.) I don't know how long the 2200mAh battery will last at those power consumption levels, nor whether it might affect the recharge cycle life. Even my three-year old 18650 IMRs are still going, and for 33 bucks I'm not worried about it anyway.
Oh well, give it six months, and FastTech will be selling 30-watt clones of the iStick for $22. For now, it's just one more roll of the dice in the Wonderful Wacky World 'o Vaping.
Vaping was so much fiddeling and work. You REALLY had to want to vape 
