itaste Clones Really?

[FringeChief68]

OMG they make innokin Clones Or am I wrong here but if I am right, Why?
I can understand making a clone of a $500 mod but iTaste clone..
I mean someone was sitting there and said hey lets take one of the cheapest costing mods and clone it...

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The iTaste 134 Styled Mechanical Mod $42
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10006659/1521203-itaste-134-styled-mechanical-mod

MVP Variable Voltage APV Starter Kit $45 BUT the iTaste MVP Variable Voltage APV Starter Kit also $45
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10004594/1390806-mvp-variable-voltage-apv-starter-kit
https://www.fasttech.com/products/1411/10004594/1390901

VTR Variable Voltage/Wattage E-Cigarette Starter Kit $71
https://www.fasttech.com/products/1411/10004594/1504902


Maybe I am wrong but why would they paint shop the name Innokin off the pictures?

 

[WillyZee]

not much of anything is safe from knocking off today ... dollar store shelves are bursting with clones of everything.

every year they celebrate ... year of the clone

 

[Ref Minor]

It's because they buy them through unofficial channels and Innokin have a minimum pricing policy so they can't sell them as Innokin.

 

[Maggiemw]

What Ref said.

There is a sticky on FT right now explaining the legal issue, with a discussion.
https://www.fasttech.com/forums/vapers/t/1088648/about-the-questions-regarding-the-authenticity-of

All the iTastes, MVPs and the SVD I have from Fast Tech are genuine. I am convinced the VTR will be, too.

That being said, yes, there are now 134-style clones out there...mech mods, though, not VWs. It's just me, but I think the design is pretty hideous Apparently people like the gatling gun look enough to want a mech copy...

 

[Pinggolfer]

It's because they buy them through unofficial channels and Innokin have a minimum pricing policy so they can't sell them as Innokin.

Really? I haven't seen a red Innokin 134 listed anywhere except FastTech. The MVP2 they have listed is sold for less in the USA. Plus FastTech ships it without serial numbers. Unofficial channels without serial numbers sound more like stolen property. If you want a real Innokin MVP-2 got to Vape 101 and for $39.95 you can have a real Innokin in two days. Someone forgot to mention waiting 2 months for a battery from FastTech.

 

[Maggiemw]

Really? I haven't seen a red Innokin 134 listed anywhere except FastTech. The MVP2 they have listed is sold for less in the USA. Plus FastTech ships it without serial numbers. Unofficial channels without serial numbers sound more like stolen property. If you want a real Innokin MVP-2 got to Vape 101 and for $39.95 you can have a real Innokin in two days. Someone forgot to mention waiting 2 months for a battery from FastTech.

Go to Alibaba, where you will find links to loads of 134-style red, green, yellow and purple clones. If you look at the FT title, it is
iTaste 134 Styled Mechanical Mod

The word 'styled' indicates that no one is trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes.


The genuine ones are entitled: iTaste 134 Variable Wattage APV Starter Kit . Plus, the reviews and discussions will give you lots of information. Nobody says you have to believe me, but the MVP 2 I am using at this very moment is not a fake or stolen property, and it arrived in 15 days, not 2 months. FT just isn't an officially 'authorized' Innokin dealer.

 

[Jayvaps]

Really? I haven't seen a red Innokin 134 listed anywhere except FastTech.

It is far from a clone. It is a mechanical mod. It may look somewhat like it, but a 'clone' it is not. zIt would be like having a vamo and removing all the guts and making it a straight mechanical and calling it a 'clone'

 

[Thrasher]

iTaste 134 Styled Mechanical Mod

+ 1 right here

as for why? why not? lol money is money in the clone empire. gotta keep them kiddy labor mills running now..........

 

[spartanstew]

OMG they make Innokin Clones Or am I wrong here but if I am right, Why?
I can understand making a clone of a $500 mod but iTaste clone..
I mean someone was sitting there and said hey lets take one of the cheapest costing mods and clone it...

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The iTaste 134 Styled Mechanical Mod $42
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10006659/1521203-itaste-134-styled-mechanical-mod

MVP Variable Voltage APV Starter Kit $45 BUT the iTaste MVP Variable Voltage APV Starter Kit also $45
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10004594/1390806-mvp-variable-voltage-apv-starter-kit
https://www.fasttech.com/products/1411/10004594/1390901

VTR Variable Voltage/Wattage E-Cigarette Starter Kit $71
https://www.fasttech.com/products/1411/10004594/1504902


Maybe I am wrong but why would they paint shop the name Innokin off the pictures?

I don't believe any of those are clones. The MVP and the VTR are genuine, and the 134 lookalike is a different device altogether (mechanical)

 

[FringeChief68]

Whew ok I am wrong then and I see the 134 is smaller then the Real iTaste 134

ITaste 134 vs 134 Styled

Depth is 34 mm vs 30 mm
Height is 220mm vs 121 mm
Width is 34 mm vs 30 mm
Product Weight 316 g vs 176 g

 

[Ref Minor]

I don't believe any of those are clones. The MVP and the VTR are genuine, and the 134 lookalike is a different device altogether (mechanical)

Actually FT do have an MVP without the iTaste markings and with different packaging to the Innokin for $5 less than their usual price. That is the only one I would categorise as a clone.

 

[Pinggolfer]

Go to Alibaba, where you will find links to loads of 134-style red, green, yellow and purple clones. If you look at the FT title, it is
iTaste 134 Styled Mechanical Mod

The word 'styled' indicates that no one is trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes.

The genuine ones are entitled: iTaste 134 Variable Wattage APV Starter Kit . Plus, the reviews and discussions will give you lots of information. Nobody says you have to believe me, but the MVP 2 I am using at this very moment is not a fake or stolen property, and it arrived in 15 days, not 2 months. FT just isn't an officially 'authorized' Innokin dealer.

I'm sorry I was geared to the MVP-2 which Innokin makes and since they show it without a name on it or say it's a Innokin and ship it without a serial number I have my reservations. Plus I was speaking about a USA vendor selling it for less the FastTech.

$45.16 MVP Variable Voltage APV Starter Kit - silver / 2.7

Innokin iTaste MVP V2.0 - 101 Vape

 

[SissySpike]

If egos were cloned why would this surprise you?

 

[crxess]

Class Dismissed!

 

[Pinggolfer]

If egos were cloned why would this surprise you?

Nothing surprises me at all these days. What I don't understand is the love of clones. Innovation drives every industry and the result are better products not copies. We are ecig smokers so why would we want someone who may have a great idea decide his efforts are useless because someone in China is going to copy it and sell it cheaper.

 

[SissySpike]

Nothing surprises me at all these days. What I don't understand is the love of clones. Innovation drives every industry and the result are better products not copies. We are ecig smokers so why would we want someone who may have a great idea decide his efforts are useless because someone in China is going to copy it and sell it cheaper.

Your preaching to the choir;-)

 

[Asbestos4004]

Your preaching to the quire;-)

quire...my favorite Buzzism yet. I'm going to clone it. Here goes...CHOIR. Not as good as the original, but it should still work.

 

[SissySpike]

quire...my favorite Buzzism yet. I'm going to clone it. Here goes...CHOIR. Not as good as the original, but it should still work.

HA darn it I even goggled that one and still got it wrong! ;-) Stinking English language why dont they spell things the way they sound!

 

[Asbestos4004]

HA darn it I even goggled that one and still got it wrong! ;-) Stinking English language why dont they spell things the way they sound!

I never kick a friend when they're down....so I won't clone "goggle"! Nice to see you're still adding to your signature....how long until you have that Aqua RBA on there? That thing looks pretty amazing!

 

[SissySpike]

I never kick a friend when they're down....so I won't clone "goggle"! Nice to see you're still adding to your signature....how long until you have that Aqua RBA on there? That thing looks pretty amazing!

I ordered one yesterday Prety cool kind of a cross between a Ithaka a kayfun but better. Its the first thing in a little while that's innovative that Ive seen.