Thanks for the advice and apologies if I'm being tedious, it's just a lot of info to get your head around especially for someone who only vaped for the first time a week ago. All the different types of mods, then parts and batteries and the like.
It's not tedious at all
@Samwise Gamgee
Look at it this way. The 'original' pioneers of vaping in the UK (people like Chrissie, especially) learned the hard way about what's good, what works, how products have moved forward. Those of us later to the party made our own mistakes. We try to help the best we can. I'm just sorry it all comes over a bit negative to new people.
I wasted too much money on rubbish products. Not having learned my £500+ lesson well enough, I then started trusting that all shops were fair, and honest and decent. Well, they are not. Some are purely in it for the money. They 'mess around' with the internet (fake reviews, you tube fabrications/commission selling), take your cash and then couldn't give two hoots what they send to you in the post. If it's rubbish, they ignore complaints. If you complain about them on the internet, you get threatened with legal action.
I have had 3 companies chase me for supposedly making up negative publicity about them. One even said I hadn't ever had an account with them, so comments about dreadful liquid and hardware were lies to discredit them. You can see why I'm peased off with some of these cowboys firms.
Some bloke (I shan't name him, but he and I know who he is) sits in his London flat making £40,000 a year through commission sales. He says products XYZ and great and then gets paid when people buy them. It is one of, if not the most, fake marketing businesses on the internet.