Please....Make it stop!
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I'm lucky. The local B&M that I frequent has knowledgeable and friendly staff. They have coil building classes for those looking to get into sub-ohming and their prices are quite reasonable.....
I am not sure where your at in WI. but we have a couple of good shops here in Rockford now if that's any closer to you.
Vape shops are finally starting to pop up more in Staten Island. Two are exclusively vape shops and one is a head shop. The head shop is still the best option though. More and more of the store is being devoted to vaping, the owner and the employees all have mech mods and RDA's and they recently hired a guy to build coils. Pricing leaves a bit to be desired, but pricing for all brick and mortar shops is more then you'd find online.
I've only been to one of the two exclusive vape shops. I don't think I'll be going there again. May give them one more shot, now that they've been in business for a few months. They only carried some Innokin products and scores of cigalike products from various manufacturers. They didn't really know what they were talking about, and I had to teach them a bit about my topper of choice. Back then, they were cartotanks. Also, they accused me of buying cloned Innokin products after they asked my how much my MVP 2 was. However, they aren't on Innokin's authorized dealer list themselves, so I'm not sure where their indignation was stemming from. They asked me, I didn't offer up the information. On top of that, the employee was a bit rude after I gave her the info she, herself, requested. Certainly, they weren't selling RDA's, RBA's, mechanicals, etc... The best device they carried was the MVP, and they were selling it for $85.
I haven't had the chance to pop in the shop that just opened, but judging from their website, they at least have their own juice line, so perhaps they have a better selection of devices to go along with it. Or at least some more knowledge to help other's out. If not, for the most part, I'll be sticking to shops in Manhattan. They're popping up everywhere there, and the competition is keeping them all on their toes regarding what they keep in stock, the knowledge of their employees, pricing, etc...
I've only been to one of the two exclusive vape shops. I don't think I'll be going there again. May give them one more shot, now that they've been in business for a few months. They only carried some Innokin products and scores of cigalike products from various manufacturers. They didn't really know what they were talking about, and I had to teach them a bit about my topper of choice. Back then, they were cartotanks. Also, they accused me of buying cloned Innokin products after they asked my how much my MVP 2 was. However, they aren't on Innokin's authorized dealer list themselves, so I'm not sure where their indignation was stemming from. They asked me, I didn't offer up the information. On top of that, the employee was a bit rude after I gave her the info she, herself, requested. Certainly, they weren't selling RDA's, RBA's, mechanicals, etc... The best device they carried was the MVP, and they were selling it for $85.
I haven't had the chance to pop in the shop that just opened, but judging from their website, they at least have their own juice line, so perhaps they have a better selection of devices to go along with it. Or at least some more knowledge to help other's out. If not, for the most part, I'll be sticking to shops in Manhattan. They're popping up everywhere there, and the competition is keeping them all on their toes regarding what they keep in stock, the knowledge of their employees, pricing, etc...
A year ago, there were zero vape shops in my town. Now there are 2* (reputable) and 2 (head shops I wouldn't step foot in), and 1 in the process of opening. (*There may be more but I haven't researched or visited them.)
I look at recent developments like a "shakedown cruise" for a new ship. The vendors that know their business, offer reasonable prices, and treat their customers right will survive; the others will, like many new small businesses, disappear into well-deserved oblivion.
The important thing is to support the reputable ones. I'm saving so much damn money vaping instead of smoking, I can afford to pay a bit more for buying locally and helping "my" vape shops survive.
I look at recent developments like a "shakedown cruise" for a new ship. The vendors that know their business, offer reasonable prices, and treat their customers right will survive; the others will, like many new small businesses, disappear into well-deserved oblivion.
The important thing is to support the reputable ones. I'm saving so much damn money vaping instead of smoking, I can afford to pay a bit more for buying locally and helping "my" vape shops survive.
Good grief! Sounds like the screenplay for a first-ever vaping soap opera!
Yup, it's really comical at times. I think there should be a sitcom called Vape Opera. Some of the stuff going on around here you just can't make up.
Re-read the original post and pretend you are a Shakesperian actor and read it as dramatically as possible. It's pretty funny that way.
I never will be chasing clouds, I'm running from smoke, and trying to find a way to vape that produces enough vapor to satisfy me without choking me to death!!!! I have asthma! So I don't bloody care how great the vapor is, it's probably more than I can handle!
And yeah, I do envy those of you with normal lungs who can produce clouds that look like cool-whip, but that will never be possible for me, with asthma. And as much as I loooooooooove throat hit, I can only take so much before I double over with a coughing fit/asthma attack, so something that "hits like a beast" is not for me either. So that Caterpillar of mine is probably a waste, unless I can find a combination of high-ohm coil and loooong drip tip so I can actually handle it.
And I know there's probably a tendency to think "stupid woman, you should have stopped smoking BEFORE you got asthma." But I got asthma 30 yrs ago. I doubt the chinese man who invented these was born 30 yrs ago, or if he was, he was probably still in diapers, or maybe pre-school.
Ok, I better stop ranting about cloud chasing and hitting like a beast before I give myself an asthma attack.
I'm just grateful to have *some* way to substitute for the smoking I was so horribly addicted to, I thought I'd never be able to quit. It just has to be thin vapor, and hit like a cocker spaniel. Andria
I have 3 smoke shops in town. All have inflated prices. I walked into the first one and dropped 45 dollars on a starter kit that I could have gotten on line for about 15 dollars. The next one won't answer questions unless he knows your buying. Last time I was in there he walked away from me...Never going back there again. The third is so busy selling tobacco and cigarettes he hasn't time to help you. Consequently I go back to the first that I bought the starter kit to buy my juices. Very good and reasonable juices. At least he takes his time and answers questions. But after getting burned buying cheap tanks at inflated prices I'll only buy his Juices. Live and learn I guess.
I don't even go into new shops anymore. They just don't have the stuff I want. And they are all the same. There are so many popping up here in MN that we might as well be known as the land of 10,000 vapes!
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Lots of them here where I work in NC, too. In fact, the city discussed how to curb the many smoke shops popping up all over the place. It's kind of scary when I walk into one of those places and know more about vaping than the person does that's selling them for over the top prices.
I live in a little pocket community at the very north edge of Los Angeles (literally a pocket, we are sandwiched between foothills next to the Angeles National Forest and there are only a couple of ways in and out). We have one main drag that runs for several miles.
The economic downturn did a number on us, our storefronts are looking ragged, and we've become a hotbed of medical (that green stuff) shops because neighboring unincorporated cities don't allow them. Now there are "VAPE" shops everywhere.
There are only 3 "dedicated" vape shops though. 1 is great, family owned and I've become good friends with the owner. It's not the hippest shop but it's clean, friendly, and they have a pretty good selection of stuff. 1 is run by a guy and his wife and is also clean with a good selection but their name and product line are adult-themed and it really turned me off going there after I went the first time to check it out. The guy gave me a free bottle of house juice - called "(that other name for cat that starts with P) Juice." GROSS. Why would I want to vape that?? Eeeww! The third started in a tiny storefront and had only really crappy starter stuff and clueless staff. They've since moved down the street to a bigger storefront and maybe they've improved but I haven't felt like checking it out again.
Stay with me, I'm getting to my point, I swear.
We also have a large Armenian population and hookah is very popular here. So now we have a ton of liquor stores, MM shops (THIRTEEN of them on this 3 mile stretch), and smoke/hookah shops, and the smoke shops are all hopping on the vaping bandwagon and putting out big "VAPE" signs out front, on the sidewalks, etc. So the local non-vaping community members are lumping the vape shops in with all the other vice shops, and there have been some pretty heated arguments on local community FB pages about how it contributes to the negative image we're starting to get. I've tried to explain that vaping is not taking over, there are really only 3 shops and it's the smoke shops that are the problem, but the perception is that they are also a problem (especially with the name of that one - Xplicit Vape, and their sign on the building is right next to the green cross dispensary sign next door to them).
It really sucks!
The economic downturn did a number on us, our storefronts are looking ragged, and we've become a hotbed of medical (that green stuff) shops because neighboring unincorporated cities don't allow them. Now there are "VAPE" shops everywhere.
There are only 3 "dedicated" vape shops though. 1 is great, family owned and I've become good friends with the owner. It's not the hippest shop but it's clean, friendly, and they have a pretty good selection of stuff. 1 is run by a guy and his wife and is also clean with a good selection but their name and product line are adult-themed and it really turned me off going there after I went the first time to check it out. The guy gave me a free bottle of house juice - called "(that other name for cat that starts with P) Juice." GROSS. Why would I want to vape that?? Eeeww! The third started in a tiny storefront and had only really crappy starter stuff and clueless staff. They've since moved down the street to a bigger storefront and maybe they've improved but I haven't felt like checking it out again.
Stay with me, I'm getting to my point, I swear.
We also have a large Armenian population and hookah is very popular here. So now we have a ton of liquor stores, MM shops (THIRTEEN of them on this 3 mile stretch), and smoke/hookah shops, and the smoke shops are all hopping on the vaping bandwagon and putting out big "VAPE" signs out front, on the sidewalks, etc. So the local non-vaping community members are lumping the vape shops in with all the other vice shops, and there have been some pretty heated arguments on local community FB pages about how it contributes to the negative image we're starting to get. I've tried to explain that vaping is not taking over, there are really only 3 shops and it's the smoke shops that are the problem, but the perception is that they are also a problem (especially with the name of that one - Xplicit Vape, and their sign on the building is right next to the green cross dispensary sign next door to them).
It really sucks!
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Is there a place on this site where we can find a list of good B&M shops by area? I have gone to 2 places in the Los Angeles and been a little less than impressed. These places even had good Yelp reviews. At one of the places, they gave me the shock-and-awe reaction when I asked for 18mg nic juice like the OP and they mentioned something about me giving myself nicotine poisoning if I smoked juice that high in nic content. Both places had difficulties answering questions about the content of the juice they were selling too. I need a place that I can visit in case of emergency (either real or made up by my impulsiveness).
First sticky at the top of the page in General E-Smoking Discussion.
However, I tried more than once to post shops I knew of and couldn't make it work which makes me doubt it's usefulness. To be fair, I think that was when it first arrived and I have not tried it in forever.
too well put! I'm going to Houston for a couple of days this summer and will definitely start training myself to start saying "you guys have no idea what you're doing, don't you?"I guess I'm incredibly lucky. I went to the biggest and most known vape shop here and can't say a single bad word about them. They have the most popular gear from blister pack to advanced expensive stuff much more expensive than a Provari just for a battery tube. All the employees vape APV's (mostly rebuildable clones) and are late 20's to mid 30's *except for one, but he can get through the beginner's chat no problem.
They never try to sell people anything they don't need and do direct newbies to an eGo vision starter kit, which is IMO the best starter kit at the moment. they make their own juice, none of which suck and also sell Philosopher's stone. They're very well trained and professional.
Their prices are almost on par with what I would pay to get the stuff shipped from the US, so I prefer to go there and buy at the counter and touch first (and enjoy the same day I pay). I also have had great advanced vaper conversations with almost all their staff and I find myself having a hard time not to go there every Saturday. After 4 visits they recognize me and next time they'll probably be calling me by name.
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