This was a PM I received from an e-smoker wondering if cartomizers were right for him and his wife. I'm not a sales guy, I just like to share things I like, and talk about myself. 
So I shared my story with him, and I hope that helps him make up his mind.
But, I though I'd post the PM, and my response to it here. Maybe you guys can also share your stories about why you decided to go with disposable cartomizers, and V4L in particular. I left out his name, of course, but maybe he'll step up and join the conversation.
Well, I'm not on the sales side of the house. So let me just tell you my story and experience with disposable cartomizers and with V4L, instead, OK?
I used to think the same thing. After getting used to reuseable atomizers, I thought it was crazy to design one to be thrown away so quickly. But I changed my tune pretty rapidly once I actually tried one.
My first disposable atomizer model was the LoongTotem v9, and it totally blew away every e-cig I had ever tried before it in terms of vapor production and cartridge duration. It put out more vapor than anything I had ever tried before, even large atomizer types like the e-pipe. My concerns about throwing away atomizers were totally forgotten. Who cared with that much vapor, and a full pack's worth of smoking in each cartomizer??
Besides, as I learned, they are refillable, and once I had the technique down, I could keep one cartridge going for a week. My record is 17 days on one cartomizer!
But the downside was that the batteries were really awful, and the liquid had almost no flavor or throat kick.
A few months after that, Steve, the owner and president of Vapor4Life sent me some of his Vapor King model (which was a KR808D-1) to try, and I absolutely LOVED it. All the vapor of the LTv9, with great batteries, tons of flavor, and lots of throat kick.
I did a review on my blog, which generated so much interest that not only did Steve sell out his entire stock, but several other retailers, including the big boy on the block, Smoke 51 (who I had been getting my LTv9s from) decided to switch from the v9 to the KR808D-1.
Flash forward a few months, Steve and I had become friends, and he asked me to hook him up with a Thai artist friend of mine to manufacture more of the lanyards that Nui had made for me for Steve to stock at Vapor4Life, and he wanted to call it the Leaford Lanyard. I wanted it to be better than it was, though, before allowing anyone to carry them with my name on them, so Steve flew me to Thailand to work with Nui and change the lanyard from a simple leather sleeve into something optimized for e-cigs and e-cig users.
That's Steve's level of commitment to quality. He wants his products to be the best, and will do whatever it takes to make them the best.
That experienced proved two things to me. First, Steve's sincerity about quality, like I said above. And Second, that I wanted to be a part of that. That's why I joined V4L, and that's why Steve sent me here, to China, to help improve the Vapor King even more.
Already, in the short time I've been here, I've managed to improve cartridge duration by 20%, from just under 3/4 of a pack, to about a full pack's worth of e-smoking. I've increased vapor levels across the board, and decreased the breaking in period most of the cartridges used to require before hitting their full vapor production. ANd I've stopped production on one batch of carts with messed up threads, and two others with bad flavors.
Plus, I am developing an entirely new and unique battery model, which will become the our totally exclusive model, the VK-1, instead of the old KR808D-1.
I don't know if my story will help you choose V4L, but I hope it will, because we'd LOVE to have you along for the ride!
For more info on my journey, and to see my e-cig reviews going back to April 2008, check out Leaford – An E-Smoker Forever! -|- Leaford’s reviews, E-Cigs, E-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, e-pipes, and YouTube - dhenschel05's Channel.
So I shared my story with him, and I hope that helps him make up his mind.But, I though I'd post the PM, and my response to it here. Maybe you guys can also share your stories about why you decided to go with disposable cartomizers, and V4L in particular. I left out his name, of course, but maybe he'll step up and join the conversation.
Well, I'm not on the sales side of the house. So let me just tell you my story and experience with disposable cartomizers and with V4L, instead, OK?
I used to think the same thing. After getting used to reuseable atomizers, I thought it was crazy to design one to be thrown away so quickly. But I changed my tune pretty rapidly once I actually tried one.
My first disposable atomizer model was the LoongTotem v9, and it totally blew away every e-cig I had ever tried before it in terms of vapor production and cartridge duration. It put out more vapor than anything I had ever tried before, even large atomizer types like the e-pipe. My concerns about throwing away atomizers were totally forgotten. Who cared with that much vapor, and a full pack's worth of smoking in each cartomizer??
Besides, as I learned, they are refillable, and once I had the technique down, I could keep one cartridge going for a week. My record is 17 days on one cartomizer!But the downside was that the batteries were really awful, and the liquid had almost no flavor or throat kick.
A few months after that, Steve, the owner and president of Vapor4Life sent me some of his Vapor King model (which was a KR808D-1) to try, and I absolutely LOVED it.
All the vapor of the LTv9, with great batteries, tons of flavor, and lots of throat kick. I did a review on my blog, which generated so much interest that not only did Steve sell out his entire stock, but several other retailers, including the big boy on the block, Smoke 51 (who I had been getting my LTv9s from) decided to switch from the v9 to the KR808D-1.
Flash forward a few months, Steve and I had become friends, and he asked me to hook him up with a Thai artist friend of mine to manufacture more of the lanyards that Nui had made for me for Steve to stock at Vapor4Life, and he wanted to call it the Leaford Lanyard. I wanted it to be better than it was, though, before allowing anyone to carry them with my name on them, so Steve flew me to Thailand to work with Nui and change the lanyard from a simple leather sleeve into something optimized for e-cigs and e-cig users.
That's Steve's level of commitment to quality. He wants his products to be the best, and will do whatever it takes to make them the best.
That experienced proved two things to me. First, Steve's sincerity about quality, like I said above. And Second, that I wanted to be a part of that. That's why I joined V4L, and that's why Steve sent me here, to China, to help improve the Vapor King even more.
Already, in the short time I've been here, I've managed to improve cartridge duration by 20%, from just under 3/4 of a pack, to about a full pack's worth of e-smoking. I've increased vapor levels across the board, and decreased the breaking in period most of the cartridges used to require before hitting their full vapor production. ANd I've stopped production on one batch of carts with messed up threads, and two others with bad flavors.
Plus, I am developing an entirely new and unique battery model, which will become the our totally exclusive model, the VK-1, instead of the old KR808D-1.
I don't know if my story will help you choose V4L, but I hope it will, because we'd LOVE to have you along for the ride!
For more info on my journey, and to see my e-cig reviews going back to April 2008, check out Leaford – An E-Smoker Forever! -|- Leaford’s reviews, E-Cigs, E-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, e-pipes, and YouTube - dhenschel05's Channel.
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