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kelli

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I agree there are a lot of great U.S. vendors, MBV being one of the best. We don't innovate we mark-up. It's hard to simulate an economy the government has all it's fingers and toes in. . .

oh i dunno....china's economy is booming, and the gov't controls everything! :D

(oops, politics :oops: )
 

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oh i dunno....china's economy is booming, and the gov't controls everything! :D

(oops, politics :oops: )

We support their economy, and yes they do control everything and hold onto our money, communism at it's finest. They will eventually stop loaning us money, dictating our policies/regulations to benefit them.

I think this whole MBV shortage has pushed me far enough to DIY with their flavorings when they get back in stock. It's going to be interesting. . . throw on some Breaking Bad coveralls and goggles.
 
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If I understand your question, yes, you can update the firmware. Mine came with something prior to 1.3, when I plugged it into the PC software, it updated the firmware on the actual evic. The way this is made is to be upgrade-able every time new firmware comes out.

Question on the Evic, i have seen firmware 1.3 on some of them, are you able to update firmware on the board?
 

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Same here. I'm almost out of juice and the only ones I like aren't available. Guess it's time to find a new supplier.

Backups to your backups... that includes vendors it seems at times....

Hopefully it is just growing pains and they'll get their supply needs figured out soon.

Buying for retail is an art, not a science. Get too much, you go broke and out of business. Get too little, and you piss off customers and they will go elsewhere. (I put 11 years in retail... you do the best you can, try to adjust, and hope things work out.... but unforseen things happen.. the market heats up, there is a strike, or XXXX)
 

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Same here. I'm almost out of juice and the only ones I like aren't available. Guess it's time to find a new supplier.

yeah i hope they get things sorted out soon, cause you play a dangerous game of losing customers when you don't have what they need. what i fear is that they got too big too fast and are scrambling to keep up. kind of a double edged sword.
 

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Someone please tell me how to make sticky bun!

DIYing graham cracker and it came out perfect. Should be better in a week. Also made some cotton candy which is spot on. Using up all my MBV flavorings before my nicoticket stuff comes later this week.

I think sticky buns is one of their proprietary mixes.. though there is maple in it if that helps.

With all the flavor outages.. I'm glad I got my little bottle (8 ounces) of 36mg nic in the freezer and my big bottle of whipped cream juice - and a bunch of 50s.. not gonna run out any time soon, though I might be dipping into my lesser sampled flavors - and vaping more of my tank cracker flavors out of cartos.
 

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What nic and PG/VG is your bottle of Hawk Sauce? If 6mg and 35% or more on the VG, I'd love to take it off your hands for ya as I'm sure I have something here you'd love to sample. :) I'm jonezin' cuz my bottle of HS is down to only 5ml now. Lucky thing for all the new flavors I've had coming in from other vendors lately though since I've been trying several fruity ones (Betelgeuse and Zombie Blood so far... yum yum. A couple more arrived today I haven't tried yet.) so it's allowed me to give my HS a bit of a break and milk what I have left. :D

However, here are the relevant threads in the PIF subforum in case you haven't found em yet. Each is a little different (read the first post in each for the differences).
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-please-read-first-post-rules-guidelines.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-please-read-first-post-rules-guidelines.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...sa-please-read-1st-post-rules-guidelines.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-please-read-first-post-rules-guidelines.html

Thanks for the links. It's 24mg 65pg/35vg. Might be a little heavy on the nic for ya but i hate to dump it down the sink. I really want to give MBV a chance but i am oh-fer-three on their juices and i get absolutely no TH. PM me if you are interested.
 

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Maple is definitely in the sticky buns. I get more maple than anything else...not that that's bad or anything.

I've had a few juices from MBV steeping for 27 days and I couldn't hold out any longer.
Everything I ordered is 50/50 6mg +1

Cinnamon roll...this is my 2nd 50 ml bottle so I just added it to the stash without without tasting it. I know that it tastes just like a cinnamon bun. The cinnamon is very pronounced but rides just on top of the bun flavor.

Hawk Sauce...hmmm, wow. This is really different...in a good way. I get lots of menthol with a fruity side note. I tried to place the fruity taste ( maybe orange, mango, pineapple??) but it's tough. The fruity taste blends real well with the menthol and is very refreshing. I've had a lot of juices that disappoint because of lack of flavor. This ain't one of them. (IGO-L 1.3 ohm 3.6v)

Thug Juice....Holy Toledo! In your face menthol maybe not as strong a some extreme ice that I've tried but its menthol with an exclamation point. There's some taste lurking in the background but I can't place it. Its a diiferent background than Hawk Sauce, but very good and I was never one that liked menthol all that much. I had to fill the IGO-S 3 different times since this was so good. Strong flavor, huge vapor, decent TH. I'll probably go back to this after tasting the rest of these juices. (IGO-S 1.4 ohm @ 3.8v)

Peach...yup, that's peach. Slightly sweet on the tip of my tongue on the inhale and a little sour on the exhale. This has become my favorite peach flavor now. The aftertaste might put off some people as it it a sour peachy flavor that lingers for a while. (510 joye atty 2.4 ohm @ 4.2 v although its similar at 3.8 v)

French Vanilla...meh. I think it bears some resemblance to French vanilla but I expected more sweetness and definitely more vanilla. This has a candy like taste to it that I personally am not real fond of. Maybe could be used as a mixer. (Yet another Joye 510 atty 2.1 ohm @ 3.9 v)

Berry treat ...my freebie 80/20, 12mg, 0 shots. When I first smelled this it smelled just like a sweeter wine and sure enough when I tasted it it tastes like a sangria. Fruity and I can almost taste the alcohol in it. And then I switched to a different atty. It's still sweet but much less alcohol taste. I'll need to try this one again when I have a different clean atty.
 
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