Warning: Thread jacking in progress...
My comment is not so much about the bottle, but about how it relates to the cost. A local B&M around here charges $15 for a 15ml bottle of one of the premium lines they carry. It's also a glass bottle with a dripper - part of the allure that's supposed to justify the cost I suppose. $1 per ml is where I imagine NT juice will be priced too. I would pay this and more, but it probably means NT won't be my one stop shop. Another local place that makes their own juice charges $20 for a 30ml, so will probably end up having to balance between these options to keep my costs at a level I can live with. That's kind of a bummer, but I am at least lucky to have a place that makes really good juice close by.
I hate to think about state taxes over and above normal sales tax being imposed in addition to this. For my neck of the woods a pack of cigs costs about $6 for premium brands. Let's say the average vaper uses about 5ml per day - this is about where I am at. So even without additional state taxes being piled on, $15 per bottle lasting three days is close to the cost of smoking for the same three days if you're a 1 PAD smoker. I tend to think this is a threshold that's going to be difficult for juice to cross. Once vaping becomes more expensive than cigs I think slower adoption rates would naturally slow further price increases.
While am I railing on about all this? Aside from the obvious that I don't want to pay more for things I am concerned about the costs of vaping getting out of control and mitigating all the good it's doing to get people off smoking. With smoking you don't have to buy accessories (you just pay for the medical bills on the way out). Batteries, mods, etc are costly even if done on the cheap with clones. With lower juice prices we can at least hope to break even with our old smoking habits, and afford vapresents like a new mod, a new atty, and so forth.
Anyway - I have ranted enough here. I understand this is normal growth. I get that businesses must grow and that this growth plan is also coupled with a strategy to preserve the business in the face of pending regs. I also know that Clark won't put his name on anything that reduces the quality the family is used to and the brand he's worked hard to build. I get all this, but I am still left feeling worried about the whole industry. Costs are piling on in all directions and in a best case scenario I think we will be afforded the opportunity to break even. Worse case scenario is it costs a bit more to vape enjoyably with good brands, and worst case the regs are so hard and the costs so high that a lot of people lose out on the best way to get cigs out of your life.
</RANT> Thanks for "listening". And thanks to Newport for throwing out some of his own concerns and opening the door for me to do the same. And sorry for hijacking the thread. It was sort of about the bottles.
guess i could just order multiple lol
