I take your point trog but disagree.
The only way forward for me is with the big companies and good guarantees as these things as you say are pretty unreliable.
Only time will tell
the product costs a fortune so u only buy one.. when it goes wrong as its guaranteed to do u are cig less.. u send it back.. they send u another one.. the process repeats for ever in theory..
a good expensive company would give u a free e g cig with every twenty five carts u purchase.. they can afford to when they charge 22,000 dollars a gallon for e liquid..
i do know the problem thow.. too many people are buying things they know absolutely nothing about.. what can they do but trust the big boys and believe the "you get what you pay for principle"..
too many people also have the mistaken idea that a business has a duty to its customers.. in years gone past perhaps.. but now the duty is to the shareholders.. the customer is there simply to extract as much money from as they are daft enough to part with... there is no such thing as a fair price for anything.. simply what the market will bear..
but in a world where people really do buy things they know nothing about in large numbers what else can they do but put their trust in someone who's sole job is to milk them for everything they are worth..
some folks judge the value of things by how much they pay for it.. some like me judge the value of things by what they do.. one thing is clear.. both types will never agree.. he he he
its a funny old world and thats for sure..
trog