Official nicoticket.com coupon thread - new product info - shipping status - general debauchary

[hawkizefan]

Ha! Tell me about it. The other day I saw a can of Red Bull trying to crack on a cup of coffee for being caffeinated.

Anyway...

KB, I will let you know how I feel about H1N1 soon. There have been a few posters buzzing about it from the NT thread (a place I used to sleep in, LOL). So since I trust their taste, I will give you, err, H1N1 a shot. I ain't special, but I will gladly let others know how I feel about it after I receive it, and, subsequently, how I feel it develops after a long steep.

Think/hope you will dig it.
I've diy'ed for almost 2 years....period. But hit some of this mainly cuz Kent is local....and awesome...and I selfishly want my locals to make it.
H1N1 does some crazy shiate day to day. Not one you want to put to sleep for a few weeks..if you do, you will miss out on some subtle but amazing changes. I've had witnessed this morphing in the course of a day.

 

[hawkizefan]

Hope I'm not speaking out of turn for The Dish, but just wanted to say that I've met my share of Aussies and the LAST thing you need to worry about is being "politically correct" in their presence - those blokes love a good, rough and tumble time and they take as good as they give!

On another note: Grape Ape. Daaamnnn! I loaded a carto tank with it this morning (after not even a 1-day steep), and it was a great ADV in the 100+ degree Arizona summer heat! Still vaping it now. Nice, light, refreshing grape flavor without being overpowering or sickening sweet like some of the other fruit vapes I've tried. The liquid is almost clear, so I imagine it will last forever without gunking up a carto. Nice throat hit (18 mg) and very good vapor production @ Clark's recommended 65/35 pg/vg. This is yet another winner from Nicoticket, and goes on my "order MOAR!!!" list. Great job, Clark![/QUOT

Good to hear....I tend to ummmmm...embarrass myself...and those around me
but we are talking roo dudes after all...( sorry dish.....precursor to my arrival on your forum. You will be my sponsor....right???)
I'm probably already banned....lol...

 

[hawkizefan]

Hell, just call it a dang good vape, cuz that's what I get out of it. As far as Mr Mann letting it fully steep, I have one of the first bottles mixed, born on date is 7/25/13, and that thing is constantly changing. What I have been doing is taking a little bit every couple days to taste it. Every time I taste it, I get different things going on in there. After talking to Kent today, I got a little insight into the different flavors in there. Maybe not all of them but a lot of them. I am really anxious to see how it finally turns out but in the meantime, I am having fun with the twists and turns it is giving. I don't think I can really give a proper review on it until it is fully matured.

Let me know if you can actually let t come to maturity.
Don't think I can...lol...

 

[hawkizefan]

Save, it is well worth it.

Damn showoff...lol.
Really missed not hooking with you today.....my loss....

 

[Randy C]

Actually he only mentions ONE time in his whole description of H1N1...WTA's...*If you plan on dripping H1N1, increase the VG and select 50/50, or lower your nicotine level because it will punch your throat hard in a 65/35. If you like a massive throat hit, leave it at 65/35. This is due in part to the Whole Tobacco Alkaloids that are inherently part of the NET process.
That is the ONLY time he mentions it and if you combine how it is worded with his explanation then it is not misrepresented,unless your comprehension skills are lacking.

My comprehension skills are just fine, so I'm not sure why you would suggest otherwise. While I understand your desire to protect NT, there is no need to take a shot at me. WORDS have meaning- no matter how few times they are used. Kent and I can (and will) resolve our differences without your engagement. Thanks- Randy

 

[Kent Brooks]

My comprehension skills are just fine, so I'm not sure why you would suggest otherwise. While I understand your desire to protect NT, there is no need to take a shot at me. WORDS have meaning- no matter how few times they are used. Kent and I can (and will) resolve our differences without your engagement. Thanks- Randy

I actually revised the description of H1N1 to reflect your feedback, and the feedback of others... More would certainly be welcome. I think it better reflects the nature of my intention to disclose the possible inclusion (even if it is negligible) of additional carcinogens due to the NET process.

 

[Kent Brooks]

My comprehension skills are just fine, so I'm not sure why you would suggest otherwise. While I understand your desire to protect NT, there is no need to take a shot at me. WORDS have meaning- no matter how few times they are used. Kent and I can (and will) resolve our differences without your engagement. Thanks- Randy

Vander's intentions are well placed. No bone to pick there.

 

[Randy C]

My apologies if I came off a bit harsh - certainly no slight intended. I wrote that at 5am this morning after a long evening of mixing, chatting, trolling the forums (yes, I do it too... guilty as charged)... and then that popped up and I was in "what now" mode. It's really born more out of frustration with the rules and process than it is with anything you said or did so don't take it as a personal jab or anything like that. Put yourself in my position - if I were able to post about you in a public forum but you had no way to respond to an inquiry, you would probably be a little frustrated. Mind you, that's not a shot at ECF or the moderators - if you look deep into my history you will see that I have been nothing short of supportive of the rules that are in place to ensure a level playing field in the highest traffic forums. All that said, it's frustrating as hell watching a bunch of conjecture unfold when, if I was allowed, I could have simply answered the question. I didn't lose any sleep over it, I hope you didn't either. You see where I am coming from though...

I think the portion of the wording you have taken up issue with is the "whole" portion of WTA. Whole implies, to some people, that at some point in the process there is a super concentrated vial of nothing but tobacco alkaloids. That's definitely not part of my process, nor will it ever be... honestly, I think it's kind of redundant... why go to the time and trouble of making a super-concentrated WTA solution and then proceed to dilute it? You get the idea... Mind you, I'm not knocking the process, and if consumers are willing to pay a premium price for it, I applaud the vendors and their respective wholesale partners (because most outsource the WTA component) for contributing to innovation and progress in the community at large. I've tried the end products also - products that contain Vapelicious and/or Aroma. Aroma, specifically, is breaking new ground and I can say with little hesitation that that are a wonderful company that anyone should consider trying - especially if they find "regular eliquid" to be unsatisfying enough to keep them off the alternative. Speaking of which - maybe you know the answer to this @Randy C - what's the deal with two different Vapelicious websites? Ie, vapelicious.com and ............. ? I don't get it.

Never thought you were a "bad guy" - hard to dislike a Garth Brooks fan.

Cheers,

Clark

No worries... No sleep lost here Consider the hatchet buried. Now.... I may have to have to order some of this H1N1, just to see what it's all about!

 

[Randy C]

Vander's intentions are well placed. No bone to pick there.

Understood... It's good to see you have loyal fans

 

[Nailz]

I've seen a lot of hype about the 'Custard Last Stand' and see on the site it says orders with the 50/50 with no flavor shots will ship faster, my concern is, with these type of flavors normally, the flavor is quite weak, from others experience, is this a flavor that needs extra flavor, or is quite strong with the extra shots, also what is the normal time from ordering to shipping or does it vary a lot?

 

[Kent Brooks]

No worries... No sleep lost here Consider the hatchet buried. Now.... I may have to have to order some of this H1N1, just to see what it's all about!

It's a delicious vape with a flavor profile all it's own. I took the night off, my first day off since I opened pre-orders on the Vanilla Bean Steep when it ran dry a couple weeks ago, so I am out a bit on lead times. An order placed this instant will be guaranteed to ship by Friday - most likely sooner because I under promise and over deliver whenever I can. I'm a bit of a perfectionist - my lineup of liquid is small because I want to be confident that 95% of people who take a chance on a new vendor will be delighted with what shows up in the mailbox. H1N1 went through a dozen different revisions, literally gallons of liquid in the lab testing. I'm pretty proud of it.
Having tasted some of the best tobacco vapes in the eLiquid industry, I believe with 100% certainty that it can stand side by side with the best tobacco vapes available on the market today. I enjoy all the liquid I sell, but there's only one I make in a 500ml bottle for my own personal use - H1N1.

Sidebar - I did get a giggle about the conversation regarding the origins of the H1N1 name. When we were conjuring possible names for it, one of my local vape buddies said something like "I wish I had never tasted this stuff - it's so damn good it's infectious." This led to a few more beers and conversations about liquids that were "so good we wish we had never found them because we were perfectly content in our ignorance - now, we were infected with a desire to obtain said liquid." As many of our great conversations go, eventually it led to the swine flu, and someone said "Is there a liquid out there called H1N1?" Quick search: No. Done deal. The running joke in our inner circle is calling it Hone None (Hone-No-Nay) which is really a .......azation of "Honey None" - after the steep emerges, it tastes like honey, but no artificial Honey flavor has has been added - it comes entirely from the NET.

 

[Kent Brooks]

Understood... It's good to see you have loyal fans

I'm not sure I would call any of these folks fans or customers - it's really more like family. I don't know if you had a little brother - I wish I did... but my best friend and I would beat the crap out of his little brother - if anyone else laid a hand on him, hell to pay. Vander and others whom have done business with me know that intelligence, integrity, and initiative - along with a healthy dose of loyalty - really make this "business" a wholly different model than anything anyone has experienced to date. If any one of my family is in Omaha, they are welcome in my home. Stop over, have a drink, vape till you are nic sick... I look forward to meeting every one of these people in person some day if I am able. I love my customers.

 

[Kent Brooks]

I've seen a lot of hype about the 'Custard Last Stand' and see on the site it says orders with the 50/50 with no flavor shots will ship faster, my concern is, with these type of flavors normally, the flavor is quite weak, from others experience, is this a flavor that needs extra flavor, or is quite strong with the extra shots, also what is the normal time from ordering to shipping or does it vary a lot?

On the flavor piece, I would defer the bulk of that answer to the crowd of people whom have it as an ADV, but my personal experience is that all of my liquid, without exception, is full flavored without shots in the recommended PG/VG ratio. CLS isn't "overwhelmingly strong" by design - it's really inteded to be an ADV. In my personal experience, adding shots causes it to mute and contribute to vapers tounge. 1 is barely noticeable, not worth sacrificing an overfilled pre-steeped bottle. 2-3 has a tendency to make it so strong that it loses it's ADV quality mid-afternoon when it mutes because it's over-flavored.

I guess the point is, I'm aware that there are some vendors that play the "add the minimum amount of flavoring they can get away with to squeeze a few extra pennies of profit out of every bottle" game. By the end, you step up a $5.99 bottle expecting to add 4 flavor shots every time. The only reason I have included flavor shots as an option is that wanted to cater to the high VG crowd that chases the dragon size vapor clouds.

Long story short - if you stay in a 50/50, most people will say CLS is full flavored. If you wander into a higher VG blend, flavor will suffer and shots will be required to bolster the flavor. If you are concerned with flavor and are considering adding shots, I would suggest you do it in a 65/35 instead of a 50/50 and skip the shots - the variation in the PG/VG ratio is free - the only thing you are out is 3ml from an overfilled bottle. The only reason I even include a shot option is for the high VG vapers.

Hope that helps?

 

[Kent Brooks]

I've seen a lot of hype about the 'Custard Last Stand' and see on the site it says orders with the 50/50 with no flavor shots will ship faster, my concern is, with these type of flavors normally, the flavor is quite weak, from others experience, is this a flavor that needs extra flavor, or is quite strong with the extra shots, also what is the normal time from ordering to shipping or does it vary a lot?

Lead times are always posted on our Facebook - an order placed right this minute is guaranteed to ship by Friday 8-16-2013 (5 day lead time to ship, and an additiona 2-3 days delivery time if you choose USPS First Class). Here of late, that lead time has been pretty typical because I have been digging myself out of a CLS pre-order that was DEEP for a couple weeks. The lead times are due largely to the fact that, with the exception of CLS and CB in 12 and 18, 50/50, no shots - all bottles are hand mixed by myself personally with 1-3-5-10ml syringes and a few bottles of dripping. Only so many hours in the day, and I have a life outside of work like everyone else, so I only complete 10-12 orders a day on average. I'm 42 orders deep at present, so it will probably ship sooner than Friday, but I tend to under promise and over-deliver on the shipping time in that a life event comes up that demands my attention.

 

[Nailz]

On the flavor piece, I would defer the bulk of that answer to the crowd of people whom have it as an ADV, but my personal experience is that all of my liquid, without exception, is full flavored without shots in the recommended PG/VG ratio. CLS isn't "overwhelmingly strong" by design - it's really inteded to be an ADV. In my personal experience, adding shots causes it to mute and contribute to vapers tounge. 1 is barely noticeable, not worth sacrificing an overfilled pre-steeped bottle. 2-3 has a tendency to make it so strong that it loses it's ADV quality mid-afternoon when it mutes because it's over-flavored.

I guess the point is, I'm aware that there are some vendors that play the "add the minimum amount of flavoring they can get away with to squeeze a few extra pennies of profit out of every bottle" game. By the end, you step up a $5.99 bottle expecting to add 4 flavor shots every time. The only reason I have included flavor shots as an option is that wanted to cater to the high VG crowd that chases the dragon size vapor clouds.

Long story short - if you stay in a 50/50, most people will say CLS is full flavored. If you wander into a higher VG blend, flavor will suffer and shots will be required to bolster the flavor. If you are concerned with flavor and are considering adding shots, I would suggest you do it in a 65/35 instead of a 50/50 and skip the shots - the variation in the PG/VG ratio is free - the only thing you are out is 3ml from an overfilled bottle. The only reason I even include a shot option is for the high VG vapers.

Hope that helps?

Thanks for your quick response, and explaining the reason for extra shots, I always go 50/50 for my juices, I should of asked in my post before, but do the juices have a strong TH, me or the wife I guess are rare and do not like a strong TH, I would think CLS would be a mellow TH wouldn't it? Also looking at the cinnamon danish with maybe strawberry or cherry for the wife

 

[Kent Brooks]

I've seen a lot of hype about the 'Custard Last Stand' and see on the site it says orders with the 50/50 with no flavor shots will ship faster, my concern is, with these type of flavors normally, the flavor is quite weak, from others experience, is this a flavor that needs extra flavor, or is quite strong with the extra shots, also what is the normal time from ordering to shipping or does it vary a lot?

I'd link the facebook, but I can't because it's not allowed. Search "Nicoticket" and look for the top post that says SHIPPING INFORMATION, LEAD TIME GUIDANCE, and ETA UNTIL NEW ORDERS ARE MIXED AND SHIPPED:

 

[Kent Brooks]

Thanks for your quick response, and explaining the reason for extra shots, I always go 50/50 for my juices, I should of asked in my post before, but do the juices have a strong TH, me or the wife I guess are rare and do not like a strong TH, I would think CLS would be a mellow TH wouldn't it? Also looking at the cinnamon danish with maybe strawberry or cherry for the wife

You would expect a weaker throat hit from a 50/50 bakery vape it's actually medium-high for me to be truthful. Someone else may give different guidance since that aspect is really subjective. Danish is a great vape - fusion will add an undertone of the chosen flavor. I can't say I have tested all the Flavor Fusion variables on the Danish, but knowing the liquid like I do, I can be more confident than your average DIY'er that it will be a good vape. At present I am really focused on testing the Fusion with H1N1 - the Danish kinda fell by the wayside. One of my committments on the Fusion, when it is untested, is that if you will commit to providing feedback - I will relentlessly pursure your personal ADV. IE, you order a Cherry Danish and you want more Cherry in the next batch - add a couple flavor shots and put something like "apply the shots to the cherry flavor fusion" in the checkout and it'll find it's way into the bottle. Flavor shots can be directly applied to any number of variables - caramel in the CB, for example... or sweetner in just about everything I make. There are only a few vapes I produce in which flavor shots don't apply in any way shape or form... Betelgeuce (because it unbalances the liquid, it performs well in high VG without shots, and I refuse to .......ize an already great vape)... and H1N1, mostly because .25c doesn't begin to cover the cost of the NET and we have already experienced someone abusing the shots to dilute the liquid with VG for personal gain.

 

[Kent Brooks]

The sun is up... see you all in about 8 hours I plan on having a great day mixin' tomorrow so we should have another dozen or so orders done. There's a few that went out in the last round that I am really looking forward to getting feedback on - Frosted Green Apple H1N1 is at the top of that list.

 

[unsure]

A Reo Grand. Love it. Hits like a truck and all the flavor of a dripper without all the hassle of carry bottles and dripping. Still love my Igo-L's though. Don't get me wrong, they still get used on a daily basis as well. Nothing like running two or three devices with different flavors in each one. Who was it that said the Reo Grand doesn't cut it on sub .5ohm vaping?? That guy really had no clue what he is talking about!

Agreed on the sub Ω vaping with the REO. I have all wood REOs and like a metal Grand my Woodvil kills @ sub .8Ω. Maybe he is talking about the VVREO with its cut off protection. I like having different juices in my different devices too. I have my new love CLS in the boat anchor (iTaste 134) Oreo in the VVREO Tesla and in the Woodvil a concoction I mixed together of 3 end of bottle juices which surprisingly pretty good. lol

 

[indoorsindica]

My fast tech order is going to be here before my nicoticket order :O

Placed nicoticket order first too!