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TrollDragon, a buddy of mine just sent over some tube porn he owns. I don't know anything about them, so I'll go have a listen when this madness is over. And what's life like in NS? Bans and taxes started yet?
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WOW! All I can say is WOW!
The Pathos Classic One is awesome but that Don Garber X/Y setup is quite the collectors piece, there are not many of them in the wild. It would been a pleasure to hear them both especially the X/Y.
The NS Vape tax (20%) is in full effect along with the regular HST (%15). I don't have any problem with that added tax it's no big deal. The thing I do have issue with is the $0.50 per ml juice tax, that's just ludicrous. The 130ml bottles of Exotics juice (70-30 PG/VG) that we sell to Nautilus/Evod (they are still out there) users has jumped from $46 after taxes to $120.75. Still cheaper than smoking but still...
Nova Scotia is starting to drop off of western Canada online retailers as a shipping option. Sites such as 180 Smoke remove all juice listings if you select NS as your initial location. You can put a different province in there and actually use your NS mailing address for shipping but that loop hole will eventually close. The NS government has set into effect that wholesalers have to meet a bond to ship to NS and collect the vape taxes, a lot of them will just not bother as it's too many PiTA hoops to jump through for our market.
They limited our max nicotine level to 20mg and the pod products we sell like Vuse (Imperial Tobacco), don't offer any lower level nicotine options (other than zero) to help people taper off.
There is a retailer in Dartmouth that is taking the government to court over the new legislation and we will see how that works out, Patterson Law is handling the case and the projected cost will probably be a 1/4 million when all said and done. They have a fair bit of funding so we'll see how that all turns out but it will be a long time to get legislation overturned and people will just go back to smoking which is what the government wants. If the court case fails here then I can see this legislation going across Canada, we've had customers say that this would NEVER happen in Ontario or Alberta, (some of them have a little of that western Canada arrogance...

) but i wouldn't count on it PEI is already putting a flavor ban in place.
Speaking of Imperial Tobacco, they dropped off this lovely 800lb display case a while back, all mirrored with perimeter/backlighting, iPad connection etc. It's been repurposed to a store stereo stand, the little Qinpu on the bottom shelf and Alexa dishing up the Spotify on the right.
They didn't fill that case with product and it won't have any in it down the road. Their consignment program is quite unique, it allows them to fill stock as they see fit and automatically dip into your bank account for payment.
Much Fun!