When I started vaping it was about 3 weeks before I ended up with a mech. I will use nothing else, ever. I'd grown frustrated with the ego battery/clearo/Protank thing that I started out with, and one day I was in a vape store, and there... there in the case was a beautiful little mech, elegant, beautifully machined and simple. It called out to me, the way mechs will do when they like you and want to go home with you. "Buy me! Buy me! You know you want me! I know you love me!"
After being transfixed for a few minutes, and finding myself quite seduced I yanked out the plastic, bought it, and took it home. I did my homework thoroughly, did the learning curve, got a genny, some mesh and kanthal, and never looked back. Several mechs and gennies down the road I'm a very happy vaper.