HI
First, for $3 you can send those back to myfeedomsmoke and get new ones that work...hopefully. I now believe those are not Vision.
Second, reading your last post about your battery, you can short-out the battery by doing what you describe. I really would not mess with the center pin with a paperclip or anything. That advice is bad.
We can recommend vendors all night long, but you are not guaranteed anything! This is the joy of dealing with China products, some are great, some are junk, and it will vary batch to batch, such is the life of e-cigs right now! The vendor's can't open and test every product they get in before they ship it. Watch any of the vendor forums, the bigger they are the more complaints they get about how this or that is junk and they want it taken care of now! How they resolve these is all we can go off of.
You buy a camera for your friend for Christmas, it doesn't work, is this your fault? Nope! Is it the stores fault? Nope, the manufacture dropped the ball and let it slip through the cracks, then the store is left holding the bag. I'm not saying it's right, but it is what it is and all the vendors can do is try and make it right with you as best then can!
I've dealt with My Freedom Smokes and had great luck. I've dealt with Vapor 4 Life and had great luck! Ikkenvape, Altsmoke also great luck with them. When I have had problems they always tried to take care of it as quickly and fairly as they could.
As for pulling up the center pin, this is a pretty common fix for problems with these batteries. As long as you don't hit the fire button while you are prying on it there's not much risk involved.
Well, thank you for mentioning that ...''DON'T HIT THE FIRE BUTTON".....problem is, everybody is giving this "advice" , videos put on youtube, and nobody even mentions ....."DON'T HIT THE FIRE BUTTON".
But, that said, how can that be anything but a temporary "fix".
''NOT MUCH RISK''.....Well, someone posted losing 4 batteries by this "fix".
Batteries cost 20-30 dollars, devices cost 5, wouldn't it be better to look at the possibility of adjusting the center post of .....in this case, the 1.6ml clearomizer.
Again, this is, and has been, a common fix, for a long time, for these batteries. As this was recommended by the CSR from the vendor it was purchased from, it seems they are taking ownership of any problems that may happen from this action. If it fails to work, send it back to them and it's their baby. Easy enough.
I don't see any reason to be nasty about it.
we recently had 1 of our ego-c twist start blinking randomly and won't work anymore