Wondering if what I just wondering What I ordered called "Quit Smoking" Listed under Ego EE2 catagory if it really is an eGo EE2 or an Apollo/Esco E2. I can't find the product on the Ego website. Are Esco E2's rebranded or are they a knock off?
Are you making a funny hunny bunny? Sarcasm is often lost on me if I haven't had enough coffee. In any case, for the viewers at home, there is no "eGo" website, unless you mean Alibaba. Just go to one of their thousands of e-cig pages, close your eyes and randomly touch the screen. There is a very good chance your finger will land on an eGo, possibly a pink
Health Set for ladies that
taste like real cigarette and comes with a clearo, they call an
atomizer. The Chinese seem to like the word atomizer and use it for almost everything except flashlights.
I'm unfamiliar with the Apollo/Esco E2, so there may be a website for it, but I know there isn't a specified manufacturer for the EE2, since I was looking at them last night. It's like the Vamo. There are almost as many companies making Vamos as there are making eGos (note: it's sometimes called a "Bamboo;" same mod). The problem with Vamos is that there doesn't appear to be a manufacturer claiming they made it first. Perhaps it sprung fully formed onto the pages of Alibaba like proof of market-driven Intelligent Design. Is it a clone? A knock-off? A fake? Hard to tell without an original to compare it to. Lots of people love Vamos, but at this point all they can really be sure of is the mod has a face that looks like a robot and variable wattage. Maybe. What if it really only has variable voltage and the numbers displayed on the LED screen have no meaning except to correspond to the voltage displayed on a different screen, divided by the resistance of the device screwed on top which might be wrong? Ha, ha! People so funny! But I digress...I doubt the Chinese have time for such attempts at humor, they are too busy accusing each other of knocking off the knock-offs another company knocked off first - and coming up with serious marketing campaigns they're puzzled we don't react to.
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Again I digress...
There is more vape gear being made in the US everyday, but most of our stuff still comes from China - supposedly. Parts could be outsourced to Thailand and we'd never know. I don't have a problem buying generic products, except for batteries. I've gotten picky lately about things that could start fires, but if eGos covered in glittering disco balls rock your world, go for it! Shooting sparks might add to the
Bling. My reason for going with name brands is that there are identifiable companies involved. While they may (likely) outsource the manufacturing to the same companies making the generics, if my trademarked eGo started smoking I could blame Joyetech. Once I proved to the forum it was an
authentic Joyetech that is, since if it wasn't I deserved my drapes catching fire for not buying the real thing. Proof might be hard to come by if it melted
Arpishly into a table lamp, but authentic or not, I'm certain to be reminded I should have bought a ProVari. Word travels fast in the vaping world and while I seriously doubt I would be compensated, Joyetech would lose face. The Chinese do that, right? Or is it just the Japanese? I apologize if I'm being culturally insensitive. Anyway, they have an incentive to produce products with some quality, since if word spread that real Joyetech eGos start fires they might lose customer confidence and FastTech would do an even more phenomenal amount of business.
Really kids, if a Vivi Nova works, it works; if it doesn't, it doesn't. Having
Vision on the box, with or without the correct logo, is no guarantee it's superior to the ones sold by FastTech or even that it's made by Vision. Generics are sometimes better too. I had some brilliant knock-off Stardusts (which
were real knock-offs since "Stardust" is the gotvapes brand name for a generic CE4), but the vendor got so much flack for selling "fake" clearos he now only carries Vision. Bummer. I really liked them, but how do you find a particular knock-off hidden amongst the generics and fakes?
It's nice we'll soon see mass-produced glass items on the market, something a lot of us have been waiting for, but I wish these companies would take just a little of the money they aren't spending on design and hire a native English speaker to write their product descriptions. Like me! I could write their whole catalog in an afternoon! I would even randomly call clearomizers
atomizers and
cartomizers if it made them happying. However, I draw the line at removing "tar" from the e-liquid descriptions. It's just too much fun watching new vapers freak out and they'll owe us some humor for losing the laughs from the product listings.
I don't want to leave out the DIY juice artisans, so have you considered where your flavorings come from? The Perfumer's Apprentice/Flavorer's Apprentice, for example, buy products wholesale from corporate giants, like Givaudan, Firmenich, and International Flavors & Fragrance. While technically headquartered in Europe, the companies have subsidiaries all over the world. It takes very little poking around to discover their chemists are whipping up yummy stuff in facilities located in places like, Karawang International Industrial City, near Jakarta, Indonesia; Nantong, China; and The Putuo district of Shanghai. Sadly, IFF plans to close it's production facility in Augusta, GA, in 2014. I didn't get around to trying to figure out where the esters, enzymes and other little beasties come from that go into making things like synthetic massoia lactone (coconut), but I doubt "Flavorist" chemists get magic wands for graduation gifts - oh wait! "Flavorists" may have had little or no formal education up to PhDs in Biochemistry and Chemistry; it's basically on the job training. I just thought I'd share.
Why do we call things fake? Generic? Knock-off? Whatever?
Simulacrum is way cooler.
