False Advertising

[Semiretired]

The False advertising is everywhere.

Do you think that you get 180 cups of coffee from a can of Folgers or Maxwell House. If you make it like strong tea and only drink in 6 ounce cups you do?

Do you think that there are 160 loads or 12 servings or 10 applications or 300 charges in anything you buy?

Don't point at just the e-cig companies - it is rampant in almost all advertising and we let them get away with it...

Okay, I am going to get off my bandwagon now - so sorry...

 

[calico21]

I bought my first 808 at the mall $80 for 1 batt, 5 carto's, usb and wall charger. All of it still works(cept cartos which I tossed), it was convenient and I didn't know any better. It took some time to figure out what I even had since no where was it listed as such. I did not even after weeks of research to replace my carto's find this forum. As much as I was bummed to find out I may have paid a bit too much I wouldn't trade the experience or my (several) 808's for anything. It's what got me started and continuing on today.

I would hope had I stumbled in here first I would have found this thread, but as most people do the look and read for some time before actually joining, they can't "search" the forum proper to find certain specifics on models anyway so I say when you find a company that's way over priced, point it out it may help someone else.

 

[atom48]

I paid @ $80 for my first e-cig...a mini. It was a start. The good thing, though, was that it was bad enough to cause me to search the net, where I found this forum. Probably around 75% of the members of this forum have had a similar experience. All's well that ends well.

 

[John Phoenix]

I guess I don't really undertstand threads like this .. and they come up constantly ..

With each person that buys and sticks with an e-cig, it furthers the cause for all of us .. and creates a larger base of folks that will help prevent any ban / regulation / taxation .. who cares what they paid .. I paid $120.00 for some junk e-cig a few years ago .. but it worked and pushed me farther into the hobby ..

A pack of analogs used to run me $6.00 ... oh, the outrage ..

It's not about price to me. It's about giving the rest of us a bad name when that's the ONE thing an e-cig company should NEVER do by using false claims. Yes, these threads will always pop up unless WE do something about it. This isn't a hobby. It's a way of life. This is what people need to keep from killing themselves. That's way more important than doing this for a hobby and if companies make false claims they are only going to hurt E-cigs in the long run. We don't need anything else against these beautiful life saving tools.

We have a defunct E-cig association that was supposed to help self regulate the manufacturers and sellers. They are dead and little good came of it. We need a new e-cig association with Teeth. We need to have a group of vendors join that agree to proper advertising practices and BLACKLIST those vendors who do not agree and continue to make false claims IMO.

I would not mind seeing a few bad companies get shut down for these practices to save the integrity of the overall community. It's a trade off. A few smokers like yourself will miss out on e-cigs early on because they would not be exposed to the bad ones like you were. I think in the long run however if we could get truthful advertising to be more consistent it will help our cause to grow and help many more people. At that time people like yourself will be exposed to the right info. We can't save everybody but we can lessen the damage and make e-cigs more appealing to a larger costumer base in the long term by forcing the right issues.

 

[Renrav]

...I guess I don't really undertstand threads like this .. and they come up constantly ..

With each person that buys and sticks with an e-cig, it furthers the cause for all of us...

I see your point, but sometimes the exaggerated advertising can have a negative effect and turn people away from vaping. I was just talking with my little brother who recently tried his first e-cig, a gas station analog look-alike. He said he liked it for a couple of days, until he accidentally sucked some of the juice into his mouth. His lips got numb and he figured that he had a pack's worth of nicotine in his mouth all at once, based on outrageous claims of how many packs are in one cartridge. He spit it out, brushed his teeth, and threw all of his e-cig stuff in the trash. I'm trying to convince him to try it again, but it's a harder battle now than it was before.

 

[ricks]

I started with a KR808 and still use them. The vendor I use has a lifetime warranty on the batteries so as long as I buy some carts here and there I have free batteries for life. Some are great ecigs.

 

[searcher]

Thanks for starting this thread. A lot of people (including myself a couple of years ago) google ecigs and find this. I really have a problem with sellers claiming that 1 cart or carto equals 1 pack of analogs. I see this claim from several retailers. The problem with it is that we are very close to the point that ejuice will be taxed, just like any other tobacco product, and I can assure you that the govt. will use that claim in order to set the rate. I don't have the link but I read a post on this board the other day that there is a bill currently in the congress that would do just that. It taxes tobacco replacements (gum, patches, etc) on an analog equivalence rate. As written, it could apply to ecigs.