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How much juice do you vape per month at 3mg? I usually vape 18mg through an rda or a RTA and use like 500ml per month. I've been playing around with pods and that seems to be 100ml per month. I tried lower mg, but I just vape more. And I hate to think how much juice I would vape through in a month at 3mg.
 

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Enjoy the new ride, dw!

I don't know why they're called lot lizards, other than the alliteration. More like lot cockroaches the way they swarm.
In the TruckStop world, "Lot Lizards" have a whole different meaning.
 

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In the TruckStop world, "Lot Lizards" have a whole different meaning.

Yeah, that's why one of the guys in the shop started calling the sales staff lot lizards, there wasn't much they wouldn't do to make a sale LoL. After that day that's what they were called and it stuck for many years, the entire time I was there anyways.
 

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There was a real distain for most of the sales staff, I think mostly because they would come and go so often so you never got to know them, there were a few they I got to be friends with. Secondly, for some reason they thought they could walk in the shop and bark orders to us, we would have to educate them. One new guy walked up to me one day and handed me plates, said to me "Put these plates on the car in the wash bay and drive it around front, the customer is waiting." I took them from him and didn't say a word, I set the plates on my bench and continued working, about 15 minuets went by and he came out madder then hell, I handed him the plates, again without saying a word and went back to work, he figured it out. And every once in a while one would come out and attempt to help themselves to ours tools, that never went over well, you don't touch a mechanics tool box. It was common to see them last a month or two, not make any sales then on Friday after lunch they would come out looking for a empty cardboard box, they always got fired on a Friday afternoon.
 

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When I was doing bumper repair, I spent most of my time at one, Toyota, dealership, specifically, the used car building. The sales staff there was actually pretty decent, at least from my viewpoint, and very stable. Younger guys would come and go, one at a time, after a month or two, but the core sales staff was there for years. The new car area was almost the same although they did have a higher turnover rate for the younger ones. The biggest turnover was in the management area. Used car managers came and went with the wind. Heck, new car managers changed about every six months or so. That made my job a little harder because some of them definitely had their head firmly planted where they sat.
 

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For Me car sales people are redundant. When I'm buying a Car, I'v done my home work!
I come in knowing what I want & what it should cost. I come in & make an offer, First thing they do is tell me they need to pass it by the "Manager". So why isn't the manager sitting there waiting for me to show up? :D
 

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How much juice do you vape per month at 3mg? I usually vape 18mg through an RDA or a RTA and use like 500ml per month. I've been playing around with pods and that seems to be 100ml per month. I tried lower mg, but I just vape more. And I hate to think how much juice I would vape through in a month at 3mg.
I usually do 15ml's a day on the average, sometimes more sometimes less. The highest level was 12mg when I started vaping on Evod's then switched down to 6mg when I picked up my first Kayfun and then down to 3mg on the rest. It would be great to go back to the Kayfun days where 30mls would last a week. ;)
 

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For Me car sales people are redundant. When I'm buying a Car, I'v done my home work!
I come in knowing what I want & what it should cost. I come in & make an offer, First thing they do is tell me they need to pass it by the "Manager". So why isn't the manager sitting there waiting for me to show up? :D

Because the manager knows how much they have in every vehicle, even the new cars so they have to approve every deal. Banks finance the new cars and some of the used cars on the lot, every month they have to pay a finance fee and the bottom line on the car goes up every month. That's why the banks send people out to the dealer every month to check all the VIN numbers on list of the cars they are financing, to make sure the dealer isn't selling cars, pocking the money and not paying the bank once one is sold.

Sometimes the manager does sell cars, that's called a "house deal", usually, depending on the dealer, a manager doesn't get a commission on it because they are usually paid a salary so all profit goes to the "house". Sometimes a shifty manager will pass a house deal to one of the sales staff for a back room cut, once word gets around that happens all hell will break loose, sales staff complains and the dealer principle will likely fire them if it happens more then once.

I saw a lot of shifty stuff over the years, we had one service manager that would get a car in for say a ticking rocker arm, he would tell the owner it needed an new engine and buy the car from them. Then have the rocker arm replaced by one of the mechanics on a "shop ticket" meaning the dealership paid for the repair, then he'd turn around and sell the car to another customer, the car would never leave the lot. He was selling more used cars from the back lot then the use car dept was, everyone knew it, well except the dealer principle.

That same manager, one college kid left his new Nissan pickup at the shop after an oil change and never came to pick it up, we couldn't get ahold of the kid. Finally we found out he was from another country, had graduated an went home leaving the truck and the bank looking for it. The bank called us asking if we had any other phone numbers for the kid, said they weren't being paid and were looking to repo the truck, we told them it's here in the lot, they said they would had a flat bed there the next day to pick it up. Later in the day I saw the service manager having an duplicate key cut at the part dept for that truck, made me wonder why. The next morning the tow truck showed up with the paperwork to take it, we gave him the keys and told him where it was, he came back in and said he couldn't find it, well it had disappeared overnight... Imagine that...
 

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There was a real distain for most of the sales staff, I think mostly because they would come and go so often so you never got to know them,
Interesting. I dealt with the same sales guy at a one dealership for around 25 years before he retired.
 

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before he retired.

I to had a "Guy" He was old school & very good at his job!
I could just call Him, tell him what I wanted & Know He would get me the best deal I could get!
He would even deliver the Car/Truck to my house! Sadly He to Retired :( Now I have to do all the leg work my self :( It's really to Bad these old Pro's didn't teach the profession to some younger people before they left!
 

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Another Canadian designed Atty, gets "Styled"
Buy B2K RSA V5 Style RDA Silver Rebuildable Squonking Atomizer
This atty would sell for around $100! Now it's $9.99 from China!

I'm not sure if the original was made in China? Probably was, I wonder if they have some agreement with the designer? It seems that any Atty designed by a third party & made in China, becomes a "Styled" atty in X # of days.
 

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Another Canadian designed Atty, gets "Styled"
Buy B2K RSA V5 Style RDA Silver Rebuildable Squonking Atomizer
This atty would sell for around $100! Now it's $9.99 from China!

I'm not sure if the original was made in China? Probably was, I wonder if they have some agreement with the designer? It seems that any Atty designed by a third party & made in China, becomes a "Styled" atty in X # of days.
I have two authentic B2K's so I'll have to bring one of the clones in to see how it compares.

The authentic comes with a crazy amount of accessories . ;)
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I haven't seen it listed any were yet! But apparently the full B2K version will be offered also, for around $20 :)
Ya know ya made it famous when the cloners are copying your stuff. :D

Albert Lee (B2K deisgner) should pull a Footoon Aqua V3 on them.
 

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Ya know ya made it famous when the cloners are copying your stuff. :D

Albert Lee (B2K deisgner) should pull a Footoon Aqua V3 on them.


I don't know it for a fact? But they may have agreed to this? When they singed the Contact to have their atty made.
This is common, look at AM General. the designed the Hummer for the American Military, with a clause they could produce the Hummer them selves after a pre determined time frame.
When "Joe Average" tries to get China to make a product for them, they would need to bring some thing to the table? Or why would China Bite?
 

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