Just received my order from an Ali Express vendor, Kingwise China Co Ltd. I was worried about customs, but it came through smoothly.
Ordered on 1/18/10, arrived today 1/31/10 (13 days) with the free Hong Kong Post option.
As for performance, I believe they say on the site that they are LR atties, but in chat with the vendor they stated they were 3.3ohm +-0.1. They do feel like standard atties. I would test them, but the multimeter I ordered off Amazon was DOA. Yay. On that note, if anyone can recommend a good multimeter that's in local chains like radioshack or walmart, please let me know.
I could not taste any primer. I think they shipped without any, which is weird. Only atties I've seen like that have been Ciscos.
I'm only on my first one, but after breaking it in a bit over the last hour, it's performing very well. At first, it was producing very little vapor. I thought I had gotten screwed, but after a puffing on it for a while, I'm quite pleased.
The pictures on the site to order from suck, as they show 4 different atties... I had to contact their rep to ask about that, and they said they offer black and white with or without the old band. I ordered all black with gold bands.
Last thing to note, they came in a rectangle box, well packed, with more clear packing tape than is necessary for 10 packages. I think they did this to make it a pain in the ... for customs, but that's just my guess. It did take me a good two minutes to hack through it with a knife.
Anyway, thought you guys might be interested. Total cost comes out to about 1.60 per atty shipped. I'll post up a follow up after further testing and when I get a new multimeter. (Any recommendations?)
Ordered on 1/18/10, arrived today 1/31/10 (13 days) with the free Hong Kong Post option.
As for performance, I believe they say on the site that they are LR atties, but in chat with the vendor they stated they were 3.3ohm +-0.1. They do feel like standard atties. I would test them, but the multimeter I ordered off Amazon was DOA. Yay. On that note, if anyone can recommend a good multimeter that's in local chains like radioshack or walmart, please let me know.
I could not taste any primer. I think they shipped without any, which is weird. Only atties I've seen like that have been Ciscos.
I'm only on my first one, but after breaking it in a bit over the last hour, it's performing very well. At first, it was producing very little vapor. I thought I had gotten screwed, but after a puffing on it for a while, I'm quite pleased.
The pictures on the site to order from suck, as they show 4 different atties... I had to contact their rep to ask about that, and they said they offer black and white with or without the old band. I ordered all black with gold bands.
Last thing to note, they came in a rectangle box, well packed, with more clear packing tape than is necessary for 10 packages. I think they did this to make it a pain in the ... for customs, but that's just my guess. It did take me a good two minutes to hack through it with a knife.
Anyway, thought you guys might be interested. Total cost comes out to about 1.60 per atty shipped. I'll post up a follow up after further testing and when I get a new multimeter. (Any recommendations?)
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