Sorry if this all counts as a bit of offtopic, just feelt i wanted to respond due you mentioned it being cheaper. It might be for now (for you) but maybe not for long. Since this nicotine tax crap seems to be hitting all over the place, i've heard some states in US faces the same insane taxes aswell. So it may not be long until say AUS may want in on that "free" tax money, you know...
yeah sorry buddy i shouldve mentioned im not using any nicotine anymore.
Lucky because they already made it illegal for stores to sell here and we have some other stupid laws around acquiring and possessing it. We need a DR's certificate and can only import a 3 month supply at a time.
We can get pre-mixed nic/e-liquid under the counter from certain shady stores but they of course charge more, almost double, than we pay for 0 nic juice
Using nic would of course make a difference if DIYing.
Being basically illegal to sell here in Oz I'd have to order mine from new zealand or another country.
& i get with taxes, the cost of the nic plus shipping, then flavors etc it does start mounting up.
For me, with my circumstances, im really only paying for litre bottles of VG/PG and flavors. Plus a few dollars for local post.
It works out a fair bit cheaper than paying $15 to $20 for a 60ml bottle of retail e-liquid.
And i get a bigger variety of flavors then i would buying 60ml bottles.
It sucks when you get settled and the government or whoever changes everything for the worse.
With all the attacks on vaping around the world i'm already worried things will get even worse.
Which is basically why i started stocking up on hardware, mods, coils etc and learning how to build and DIY e-liquids.
Apart from price hikes, they cant really do that much towards DIY liquids as the ingredients are all used for numerous other things. Same for building coils to really, the wire is used for many other purposes so they cant really stop us accessing it.
When you think about it, it probably wouldnt be to hard to make your own mech mods if you had no other way to get them?
Might be an idea to stock up on some 510 connectors and some RDA's?
I dont know, if they ban vaping and leave cigarettes legal we should all fire up and take to the streets.
It would be the biggest load of BS corruption in history.
I feel for you bro, it shouldn't be this hard or costly