I have questions about this mini cig website

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bishybob

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I'm really not trying to bash any companies. Everyone has their right to sell anything they want... But a lot of the people on this forum know would think the same thing if they ran into it on their own.

I ran into this website the other night that sells a mini-cig.
The address is Welcome to ECigarettes.com - E-Cigarettes Welcome!. They sell an ultra mini cig. So I checked the price of it, and it was $199 US?? Why would it be so expensive. Minis are usually the cheaper of the e-cig forms.

On their info page they say that the battery lasts one week at normal usage.. Which they say is equivelant to a pack of cigarettes a day. I've never heard of a battery that could last that long. And it's a mini... Wow.

Okay so they say on their website they'll refund $100 of the purchase price if you quit smoking in three weeks or less. What if you don't want to quit smoking? What if you just want to replace part of your smoking with e-smoking. Then on their info page in the fine print it says the offer is only good for the first 100 customers, and is only valid until 05/31/08. Soo... nevermind.

They say they have a 1 year warranty on all parts. They'll ship you a replacement free of charge. Then you send them the broken one and they'll refund your shipping cost once they determine the part is broken. okay.... Then they say there's no warranty on broken, damaged, or misused parts.

He only sells zero nic carts, and your $200 cig only comes with 5 carts.

I could go on more but I'll stop there.

I think I remember a post way back where someone mentioned this website and the story about his wife dying of lung cancer, but I can't find the post.

I just want to know if anyone actually buys or has bought anything from this place. Do they get any business?
 

TheEmperorOfIceCream

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I remember that thread BB. He got trashed on the forum, I recall, because of the inflated claims for the device as a cessation product. I believe there was a reality-style TV show alongside it following a control group all using this method to give up smoking The zero-nic cart thing pretty much guaranteed everyone tanked. I thought at the time that the guy just wasn't addressing the elimination or reduction of burning tobacco, which is pretty much the point of these things.

Final consensus was nobody here would touch the guy with a bargepole. I suppose he might do OK with impulse buyers, but anyone who went a little farther into it would come across Meltrex or Smokester, and then he's sunk.

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TropicalBob

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It is, indeed. This man lives in Cape Coral not far from me and he convinced WINK-TV to "test" the miracle electronic cigarette he sells at great profit. Chosen subjects would use an e-cig with zero-nic cartridges and would wear a patch or use nicotine gum if they needed to. The test was a total waste of time. And the TV station kept repeating in broadcasts that electronic cigarettes have no nicotine in them. That "test" warped public perception of e-cigs as viable products. It's hard to "undo" that kind of damage. Several of us posted accurate information on the TV's blog site, but for every person that read it, another 10,000 only heard "no nicotine" over the airwaves.
 

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