I gotta stay away from...

[Wolffy]

PSA: Warning to those people who may be contemplating buying a Provari. There is a new knock off coming out of Canada called the ProvarEH? While very hard to tell apart from the original pay close attention to the branding marks and especially spelling.


While the production facility is in an undisclosed remote location we did manage to find an image of it on a camera phone after hours of intense interrogation and we even had to resort to a couple of minutes of tickling! (don't let everyone know how cruel we can be)

 

[dedi]

Glad to hear u made it thru the surgery Steph!!!! Rest well and you'll be in tiptop shape soon,good luck with the new to you Kitty

 

[The Ocelot]

Glad all is well in the House of Pancake! {{hugs}} And, of course {{hugs}} to everyone else as well.

I also wonder about Ferrel and hope he is okay. I wonder about our other MIAs too, but alas 'tis the nature of the 'net to stay on an island for awhile and then sail off...

 

[mediocre toker]

'Tis always nice to re visit some exceptional scenery though
()

 

[fabricator4]

Aaaargh! Hong Kong post have finally cleared an entire weeks worth of scan backlog by the simple expedient of sending all of our FT orders back to fasttech. I guess they finally figured out that there's no way they can actually scan *all* of the packages. Some people are saying FT had it coming for sending batteries and juice wrapped in foil to try to get it past the scanners. We all know the foil won't actually work anyway, but it probably takes more time to evaluated the scans.

Meanwhile, if you have an FT order that shipped in the last week of October that was sent HK post and hasn't turned up yet, FT are busily processing a mountain of refunds. I believe the Paypal refund comes through as "duplicate order" or something similar. I guess there's no radio button to click for "We are all screwed".

 

[Shadav]

they are being ... wipes and not giving me a refund...

Due to restrictions imposed by PayPal, FastTech is unable to issue refunds 60 days after payments. In such cases, store credits of equivalent value are issued in place of refunds. Would you like to take store credit? We can arrange right away.

Thank you for your patience and udnerstanding.

no I don't want store credit as I explaned to them, resending or store credit won't help as I won't be able to get the products that I want

 

[fabricator4]

they are being ... wipes and not giving me a refund...

no I don't want store credit as I explaned to them, resending or store credit won't help as I won't be able to get the products that I want

Send them a Paypal invoice for the outstanding amount. You will lose a minor percentage to the Paypal transaction but at least you will be able to buy from somewhere else that does Paypal.

 

[SirSteve]

Hello all, good to be back, although It'll be awhile before I am able to resume my normal posting. Sorry to hear about the trouble people are having with Fasttech, hopefully they can get the shipping thing straightened out, be nice to get back to the week to two week schedule.

I also hope Ferrel is doing well.

Steph, glad you got that gallbladder taken care.

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, although I have full intentions of being back before long, I'll go ahead and wish you wonderful people a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May the sun smile on you.

 

[Shadav]

I got some catching up to do but just wanted to say hi
been working 70+ hrs (at one job.....I'm used to hours but when they all come from the same job just makes it feel like more) so I've had little to no sleep

and then we were robbed yet again...twice now in a months time, exactly one month to date....I still don't have a store manager, last week had "Image day" where we are nit-picked and graded on the look of our store and now today I have a store audit.....I've been given the date of Dec 2nd we will have a store manager....we shall see...

Steph glad you are healing well....
stupid fasttech....guess I could take store credit and maybe get one of their pipe mods even though not really the design I wanted

well back to work I go...at least I finally got sleep last night. my mom got my kids for the holiday weekend...slept for 3 solid hours, woke watched tv slept another solid 3 hrs....feeling more coherent at least instead of a brain dead mess....

will read and catch up later today....

 

[Shadav]

Congrats on Lord Pancakes newish (return to) Job...here's to better days

Steph take it easy, you might be feeling well but give it time to heal...although it wasn't "major" surgery it's still surgery and it being in the stomach can easily stretch/tear the stitches without trying....pesky stomach muscles being attached to just about every other muscle...
also take it easy on what you eat for a while...no leafy,spicy stuff...no coffee....give your body time to heal.

Waves to MT and SirSteve glad to see you two

Hugs to everyone else

WOHO VICTORY!!! So yesterday was my store audit with all the chaos that's been going on since they took my manager away and I've been working like a dog, these past 2 weeks I've just reach my physical and worst my mental limits....I've really just been so tired I'm quite oblivious to most everything lmfao

The store audit was -$9!!!! BWAHAHAHA BEST AUDIT EVER OF ALL TIME ANYWHERE, SO SCREW YOU CORP!!! Now tell me why 8 yrs with the company I'm not good enough to be a store manager! Aced our mystery shop, image day we looked good, 1st audit after my boss left we looked awesome but not good audit (doesn't count on me) this audit the sales floor was spotless and organized but the stock room was a cluster.... lmfao (what you expect we're all overworked) but the base line you might as well said we were perfect cuz really $9 short in inventory heck yeah!!! They consider $500 short to be great!

Anyways...

HAPPY TURKEY DAY YA'LL
I'll be stuck at work all day today with my ast (6a to 6p for me and noon to 10p for him) so I'm taking in my arsenal of vape gear now lmfao if you can call it that and we gonna be chillin'.....he's interested in vaping....pretty much everyone at work now owns a cig-a-like cuz they see how well I've been doing! So since it's a holiday, I really don't see us being busy so I'm gonna be teaching today about vaping!
Taking in my cig-a-likes (blu, clayton, markten and greensmoke) and mods (finally got a battery and charger) the mech mod (seigel I think it is?) with the protank 2 and a clove/coffee juice in it, the TECs with the Hypertank clone and a blend of unicorn blood, vanilla and watermelon in it and my baby orange 650 vv spinner with a orange metal vivi nova on with my own fruity/nutty juice blend in it
now if only we were allowed to drink while at work, today would be all kinds of fun

too bad can't bring my laptop in either lmfao...I think he's bring his nintendo DS in

 

[mediocre toker]

Waves back to everybody on here.
Great news about the audit there shadav, especially since the tw0 robberies in as many months. You should ask for a promotion.

 

[Susaz]

I got some catching up to do but just wanted to say hi
been working 70+ hrs (at one job.....I'm used to hours but when they all come from the same job just makes it feel like more) so I've had little to no sleep

and then we were robbed yet again...twice now in a months time, exactly one month to date....I still don't have a store manager, last week had "Image day" where we are nit-picked and graded on the look of our store and now today I have a store audit.....I've been given the date of Dec 2nd we will have a store manager....we shall see...

Steph glad you are healing well....
stupid fasttech....guess I could take store credit and maybe get one of their pipe mods even though not really the design I wanted

well back to work I go...at least I finally got sleep last night. my mom got my kids for the holiday weekend...slept for 3 solid hours, woke watched tv slept another solid 3 hrs....feeling more coherent at least instead of a brain dead mess....

will read and catch up later today....

All of my liquids (two batches of 6 bottles each) cleared nicely through HK customs through Singapore mail, but they're still lost here in the Argentine mail pandemonium... Sorry they didn't clear for you, no batteries though...

 

[Shadav]

[edit]nevermind it's back now lol.....

 

[mediocre toker]

Thanks everyone for all the memories on here. It's been a blast but due to matrimonial difficulties I have to shut down all of my forums accounts. So long everybody and vape away. This has been Mediocre Toker. Over and out. (I hope she's happy now!)

 

[fabricator4]

Thanks everyone for all the memories on here. It's been a blast but due to matrimonial difficulties I have to shut down all of my forums accounts. So long everybody and vape away. This has been Mediocre Toker. Over and out. (I hope she's happy now!)

Bugger. Keep vaping.

 

[Stephuhnator]

I think my "Like" button may be broken??! Anyways, hola amigos and amigas!! Happy Holidays!! ((((((((Hugs)))))) back at cha Ocelot and ((((((Hugs)))))) for the rest of ya

Pancake and I have been couch potatoes since my surgery, has been snowing off and on, but we do miss y'all and think of ya often. We got ourselves a Wii U and some games as one of our Christmas presents to ourselves, so that has had us quite busy and entertained lately. One of my 4 incisions doesn't want to close and heal up, the rest are looking pretty good, good for a scar anyways lol! I cancelled my post surgery appointment yesterday due to snow and not feeling so hot. I don't think it is infected. In a lot of ways I do feel better already. Still some more healing to go.


In other news......

We feel very strongly "called" to seek brand new ProVari's for ourselves tonight....
What a mysterious and powerful call it is, I must say. Awaiting M'Lord Pancake's arrival to do the deed.

Any guidance in this matter will be greatly appreciated my friends

 

[Susaz]

Bad about @mediocre toker... Haven't had those issues since I got myself a notebook and in the forum while making family life...

Strange Steph about the Provari calling... I've never felt that need. Today I got my K100 from FT and finally got that 1.2 ohm double coil on the Trident... Been vaping almost all day. All of my orders from late October are finally here except for the FT Kaifun. Unknown is the state of the next months, restrictions are being put on all credit card spending abroad, so I don't know if I'll be able to go on vaping. We'll see...

 

[SirSteve]

Wow, I feel bad Shadav for the long hours and the robberies, sincerely hope that things improve in your working life. Please stay safe and hopefully get some sleep.

I am going to miss mediocre toker, hope that you can somehow manage to get back, one of the nice things about this forum and thread are the insights and online friendships of people around the world.

Steph, hope that the surgery finally gave you some much needed relief. The call of the ProVari is hard to ignore, if you can swing the price, go for it, mine was a blem and with 5% off came to just under $150.00 with the 18650 extension, very much worth it. While I still use my other devices, the ProVari is certainly the best built one I own. I'll give thumbs up to the Sigelei Zmax for build quality at its price point, and Vamo is still a leader in value. Say hello to Lord Pancake.

Susaz, sorry to hear about the clamp down on foreign use of credit cards, that just seems wrong.

A fond hello to all, had to cancel internet as I am looking for a more affordable place. Trying to find a part time job so I can afford something decent and pay off the rest of my medical bills for my triple bypass and shoulder surgery, no luck yet, maybe you people can do a collective wish for luck. Truth is if I can finish paying off my medical bills, I wouldn't need the part time job, oh well.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and may the New Year be good to us all. I'll be back in full force once things get more settled.

 

[fabricator4]

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and may the New Year be good to us all. I'll be back in full force once things get more settled.

Hey Sir Steve, sounds like you've had a few trials of your own. I hope things start looking up for you and that you are healing up well.

 

[SirSteve]

Hey Sir Steve, sounds like you've had a few trials of your own. I hope things start looking up for you and that you are healing up well.

Thanks Fab, the surgeries have been awhile, triple bypass June 21, 2012, shoulder Dec 6 2012, so I have healed from the physical wounds. The deductible for the insurance and the six months off work in such a short time have taken a big financial toll that I have yet to recover from though.

Hope you enjoy summer in the down under, winter just slapped us with seven inches of snow, and it has been way too cold for December here. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.