I'm gona repost something I posted earlier in response to someone asking about blu.
I think we all agree that there are much better options for a newbie than blu. I give them credit for getting a lot of people interested in vaping, but blu is far from cost effective or high performance. I'd recommend a Riva to new vapers.
Heres everything you need for imo the best pre-mod vaping experience (keep in mind I'm a cartomizer guy, some people like atomizers).
From Liberty-flights (click the 20% discount in upper left):
Riva lite kit: 29.99
From crystalclearvaping.com (free shipping):
15 pack resurrector cartomizers: 21.50
The CCV 15 pack deal comes with a free 510 driptip of your choice (which you can use on the resurrector cartomizers, and to try dripping on the atomizers included in the riva lite kit).
The riva lite kit includes cartridges, but cartridges suck, you'll want to drip (using driptip) onto the included atomizers or use the cartomizers.
I use 2 resurrector cartomizers a week, so that's ~$3 in cartomizers per week
I win alot of my juice through contests, but when I buy juice I like thevaporroom.net for cheap + good juice (not THE best juice tho, that goes to pinkspotvapors imo). They have specials every week $10 for 30ml (4 different ones per week, and a $5 for 15ml on weekends). They throw in a 3ml sample as well. After shipping I get 48ml of juice on weekends for $17 shipped (coupon code 'thankyou' for 10% off).
I use 3ml/day, 48/3 = 16. 17/16 = 1.0625, 1.0625*7 = 7.4375 $7.4 dollars a week on juice, ~$3 a week on cartomizers, $10 per week total cost of vaping, not including contest wins.
So for (in my opinion) the best pre-mod vaping experience, after initial setup cost of the kit, vaping costs $10 per week, lets see blu come close to that cost or performance (this setup dominates a blu's performance).
