I Met A Representative From Big Tobacco Today.

[Cacique]

That encounter would have made me laugh. No experience with their product other than seeing it at gas stations, but thanks for sharing.

I'm pretty sure the $450 is the display price and the 250w device comment was the shop owner's response to the V2 being advanced, as in "How could that be more advanced than this?"

 

[dionysuskiss]

That must be the V2 pro series 9. My very first vaporizer was a V2 pro series 3. It was a pen type with three different types of tanks. A liquid tank, a loose leaf tank, and a wax tank. All where interchangeable with the vaporizer.They clicked in with magnets. The charger also had a magnet. At the time, I got mine for $50. They since then, have had a series 7, that has vv as well. V2 also carries there own juice as well. I never tried any. I don't want one but, I wonder what the hell makes them think their device is worth that much?

 

[EBates]

A couple of years ago I decided that I needed to get off the cigarette treadmill. So I looked at V2, Blu, and several other cig-a-likes as a possible replacement for the cigs. About $70 was about as low an entry point as I could find. Since I had no knowledge of e-cigs I was about to give one a try and mentioned it to my daughter. She had an e-cig (ego bat with a carto tank) she had bought and used for a while. I had her pick one up for me and the rest is history.
Finally about a month ago I got to try a cig-a-like her BF was using, I was so glad I did not throw the money I was about to spend on a cig-a-like kit.

 

[Bad Ninja]

National Tobacco isn't "big tobacco".
More like mini tobacco.
I've dealt with them in the past. They sell rolling papers (zig zag) and horrible loose rolling tobacco.
They stock headshops and mini marts.
They have their own gig, they own the zig zag brand of papers, blunt wraps and crappy e cigs.
They are very very small potatoes compared to companies like RJR.
They are not financially able to lobby congress or affect lawmaking.

That was just an outside sales rep trying to make a sale.
He probably wrote down as much info as possible so he can slam the store with junk mail.

 

[Rizzyking]

Just a roaming salesman trying to get their products in as many locations as possible nothing overly sinister or interesting about that. Most interesting aspect of tobacco company's and vaping in the US to an outsider is why the two haven't worked more closely as big tobacco regards the western world as a dead zone for future tobacco sales and most of them are now concentrating on the developing world and the whole Asian area for future tobacco revenue. Can't help feeling a trick has been missed to be honest and that vaping may have been in a much better state in the US if vaping had got together with big tobacco earlier.

In the UK with the tpd and national specific legislation in the pipelines the tobacco company's see no advantage in trying to alter anything now we also missed the boat over here.