Mech Mod price difference.

[Kent Tan]

I'm new to mech mod and just wandering why are they so huge of a difference in pricing?
The only difference i see is, Battery sizes and finishing. Am i missing something vital here? some can range from less then 10 bucks and varies up to 50 bucks. I'm just referring to mechanical mods not those vv/vw.

Lastly what would all of you consider to be a really good mechanical mod?

 

[bullet08]

there are authentic mods which will range in hundreds. then there are clones. if you order clones from china, they are usually really cheap. if you order clones from US, they are usually 3-4 times higher in price.

 

[Norrin]

10-50???? Not seen any under 10, maybe on Fasttech or another really cheap site....avoid!!! (the mod not the site) and you can pay $100 or much more for a mech mod. The more you pay the better it should be built and the materials should be better, BUT it doesn't always work that way. Find something you like the look of and then check reviews for it, there are too many around to say which ones are good.

 

[Warpigs]

I did alot of research on mods before I bought my Silver Bullet. Make sure to shop around before making a final descision. Read reviews also.

 

[vapero]

10-50???? Not seen any under 10, maybe on Fasttech or another really cheap site....avoid!!! (the mod not the site) and you can pay $100 or much more for a mech mod. The more you pay the better it should be built and the materials should be better, BUT it doesn't always work that way. Find something you like the look of and then check reviews for it, there are too many around to say which ones are good.

sorry but this is all wrong.

I have ordered 7 mech mods from fasttech and all of them are perfect, never had an issue with any of those, the best one I have is a brass gp paps that was $13 dollars and the switch is miles better than the authentics (not paps) that I've tried.

of course you can find bad clones as well as bad originals but a mechanical mod is a simple tube with some threading on it, I think that the chinese can handle that difficult task.

fasttech sells a huge volume at little margin that's their business model, and a lot of local or online vendors buy at fasttech and sell for 4 times the price here so that accounts for the price diference.

even if the vendors buy directly from the supplier they get say 20 mods, but fasttech gets 200 so their price is much better.

remember fasttech is the biggest store in the world regarding vaping (it's our walmart) so they have bad clones as well as top notch ones, just make your research


now regarding authentic the price is much much more as they make much smaller runs and hire a shop (usually local) to manufacture them, so their price isn't really competitive with the huge factories in china making 100 mods an hour

 

[Norrin]

sorry but this is all wrong.

I have ordered 7 mech mods from fasttech and all of them are perfect, never had an issue with any of those, the best one I have is a brass gp paps that was $13 dollars and the switch is miles better than the authentics (not paps) that I've tried.

of course you can find bad clones as well as bad originals but a mechanical mod is a simple tube with some threading on it, I think that the chinese can handle that difficult task.

fasttech sells a huge volume at little margin that's their business model, and a lot of local or online vendors buy at fasttech and sell for 4 times the price here so that accounts for the price diference.

even if the vendors buy directly from the supplier they get say 20 mods, but fasttech gets 200 so their price is much better.

remember fasttech is the biggest store in the world regarding vaping (it's our walmart) so they have bad clones as well as top notch ones, just make your research


now regarding authentic the price is much much more as they make much smaller runs and hire a shop (usually local) to manufacture them, so their price isn't really competitive with the huge factories in china making 100 mods an hour

How am I wrong? If you got a good one at $13 that's great but the tolerances that will be made to will be poor (has to be or they couldn't make it cheap enough even in China) so there will be good ones and bad ones of the same clone. Bad threading will give big loses which in a mech make them very poor. Also without testing a mod it can't be considered good because taste is too subjective.

 

[Kent Tan]

I'm checking on those under USD30 bucks with good reviews on fasttech. My aim is to get my office mate to quit cigs. But the original mods are way too expensive for them. The e-cig pens are lacking of firing power for heavy smokers like us. Correct me if i'm wrong, as long as the body of mech mod fires up perfectly and the material used are of good quality, we then can classify it as a good mod?

 

[deach]

Yes, read and study. Remember, the "mod" holds the battery and that's where the malfunction can occur. While I cannot comment on clones I suspect they'd be the same as the originals. Some are simply different in materials, and such than others. Just as I found out years ago with flashlights, (again battery holders with a light on the end) there can be differences in how things work, how they're machined, and how they're put together. Good luck to you.

 

[Susan~S]

A couple of things to keep in mind regarding mech mods.

With a mech mod the only way to "fine tune" your vape is to change your coil (or get into rebuildables which I don't recommend for a beginner). With a high vv/vw regulated mod (and its buck/boost circuitry) you can "fine tune" with a push of a button. On a mechanical mod your voltage drops as you vape, with a regulated mod this does not happen. Your first hit is just as good as your last hit.

With a mechanical mod you also need to purchase batteries and a charger. Count on at least $40-$50 for this. And count on spending time learning battery safety, Ohm's Law, amp draw, etc).

 

[deach]

Only other thing I'm going to say is unless you guys have a vast background in electronics, I'd never recommend a mod with a rebuildable atomizer to a newcomer. That's asking for trouble (in my humble opinion)

 

[tj99959]

There are lots of ways to make a mod more expensive to make. Hand turning a tube from a piece of bar stock is not the same as just cutting threads in a piece of tubular stock. Volume produced makes a huge difference in price. Titanium costs a lot more than brass. You can add to this list ad-infinitum.

Now:
Why do I use mechanical mods? This little guy is almost 4 years old. It even fell out of a duck blind, and spent a week on the bottom of Ogden Bay (my dog found it for me). I still works as well as the day I bought it. Try doing that with a regulated PV!

 

[vapero]

How am I wrong? If you got a good one at $13 that's great but the tolerances that will be made to will be poor (has to be or they couldn't make it cheap enough even in China) so there will be good ones and bad ones of the same clone. Bad threading will give big loses which in a mech make them very poor. Also without testing a mod it can't be considered good because taste is too subjective.

I think a manufacturer that produces thousands a week have better machines than a shop hired by a mod maker, remember china is the manufacturing capital of the world, original mod makers usually check their merchandise so have better quality control (quality control doesn't mean quality, just that some one is checking for defects) but I can bet that china on average produces less defects than the rest of the world (the problem is that they still ship those defects as opposed to the OG) but looking at reviews you almost always know what you are going to get, and if you get a bad one fasttech will always respond and exchange.

look around your house I bet you that almost everything, even much more advanced stuff comes from china
most smartphones
some tvs
computers etc

a mech mod is a simple battery holder and the tolerances, though they feel really precise, you refer to don't require the same precision to make them perfect as some hi tech stuff you take for granted that comes from them also

 

[Kent Tan]

Thanks for all the concern. Before i started mech mod myself,(Just a month worth) i did alot of studies on safe vaping. Emphasizing on battery types, chargers, safer ohm build, and etc. I'm no electronic engineer but i do place safety first, especially seeing that people do tend to get blow up whether is clone or original mods. I somehow find that the usual issue lies on very low sub ohm build with bad batteries.

 

[vapero]

Thanks for all the concern. Before i started mech mod myself,(Just a month worth) i did alot of studies on safe vaping. Emphasizing on battery types, chargers, safer ohm build, and etc. I'm no electronic engineer but i do place safety first, especially seeing that people do tend to get blow up whether is clone or original mods. I somehow find that the usual issue lies on very low sub ohm build with bad batteries.

I know "safety first, sub-ohms=dangerous, good batteries..." I'm always on the safe side but every accident that I've seen involves charging or auto-firing, never vaping...