Price comparisons for finished, unflavored, 12%, 80/20 DIY e-juice

[RaRvn]

Looks like your cost per ml minus any flavoring is around 3 cents. Using 12.5 mg/ml half of each ml will be nic base @ $0.0265 and the other half pg or vg @ $0.0035.

Thank you. That is more or less where I arrived as well. That's only about $1.00 per 30mL. Now I know that the cost of flavor and bottle has to be added as well, but online suppliers are charging $15 to $25 for 30mL. I refuse to do that math at this point but that really is an astronomical markup. And frankly, I am blessed with a financial situation where I can certainly pay their prices and a lot more, but the principle of the thing (1000%+ markups) just irritates me. And I know that buying in extreme bulk decreases their costs to much less even than mine.

Hmmm....I see a possible business venture in my future. It wouldn't be hard to undercut all of them.

 

[icebob]

the key to that is to produce frikkin good juice.... harder than you think....

 

[RaRvn]

I apologize if I referred to a gender, try not to do that. Being a user you should be fine handling 25mg nic just watch out for any little ones as they will be less tolerant. Just clean up everything with a damp cloth that can't be washed off.

I don't have any children or pets in my home, just a teenager and a lot of her friends in and out. Though I'm not convinced that some of them are any smarter than a five year old. I still lock up anything remotely toxic or interesting.

I smoked analogs for 35+ years and I knew nicotine was a poison, but I gained a whole new respect for the lethality of nicotine when a patient committed suicide with nicotine patches. He didn't even ingest them; he stuck about 50 of them to his skin and it killed him dead. 500ml of 25mg/ml is certainly enough to kill several people, or more.

Then again, a bottle of Tylenol is lethal as well.

 

[RaRvn]

the key to that is to produce frikkin good juice.... harder than you think....

True. I have a friend who is a cake and candy maker. She can make any flavor imaginable or requested. I suspect she'd be a genius at this. I don't think she'd go for it though. She's an anti-smoking, anti-vaping, anti-additives, anti-preservatives, 100% organic, vegan. LOL! I seriously doubt she would help me contribute to nicotine addiction. I'm going to ask her tomorrow just to see what she says.

 

[Rocketman]

RaRvn,
sounds like you are off on knowledge quest.

Good luck, learn all you can first.

 

[RaRvn]

Thanks for your help, Rocketman. I do tend to be very inquisitive, especially with new things, and tend to ferret out all known facts about new things that capture my imagination. Knowledge is power, ya know? I figure the lessons I am learning now from my missteps will serve me well and I thank you and everyone else for pointing them out to me. I am DETERMINED to kick my 35 year analog habit once and for all and this is the first thing that has ever worked for me. I think a big part of what makes vaping work is that it gives my mind and imagination something to do besides think about the analogs I have decided to no longer smoke. Not to mention the fact that I still get to "smoke".

I really do thank you, and everyone else here, for your patience and your helpful spirit. Without all of you, I would have tossed my gas station e-cigs in the trash and gone back to deathsticks, which would have been tragic.

I am a bit of mad scientist, but I think it's wise for me to post here before I do something truly stupid. And for that I thank you as well.

 

[Rocketman]

You go girl

Have fun, be safe.