Good for you. Count yourself lucky you didn't wade in to the tune of $500+. It's probably a good e-cig and that's all that really matters.
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Some e-cigarette companies pay fake review sites to promote their product, or they entice existing review sites to be generous in their comments in return for sales commission (affiliate sales).
I fell for these tactics in the UK in 2012 and it took me over $800 of equipment to find something good enough to quit smoking.
I smoked 15 a day.
The top cig-a-like review site (a 'paid for' site) in the UK still has 5 stars out of 5 stars for the worst and most expensive product on the UK market. The first page of reviews say how wonderful the product is, how people went from smoking 2 packs a day to none in 48 hours and how the batteries last ages and the refills taste just like a cigarette... it just goes on and on.
What most people will never see is the hundreds of reviews that say the product is a scam.
VaporFi are not a scam, but they do sell ordinary hardware at extraordinary prices. According to their literature, they have all the products made for them.
Made for them by whom? Most of it is instantly recognizable, so either VaporFi are asking Kanger and Innokin etc. to make products or actually VaporFi are cloning products deliberately.
It's a case of greed and modern business practice. I suspect the re-launch of their brand from Vaporzone to VaporFi energized them into a new level of scurrilous sales tactics. Up until they got humiliated on Youtube, they had a product listed as $279.99 on their web site. You and me could order that, today, for $40. FORTY dollars.
I looked into one of these free trial for shipping scams being what it proved to be where they charge you for everything once you provide your credit information and then start charging so much like $30 a whack per battery, sso much for the plastic cigaretter style carrying case for usb adapter and spare cartridges prefilled with the worst crap sold no less. And then charge $80 for two 5 packs of the same garbage as the every second month refill even when you don't need it!
When wanting to cancel I was then told I can let you have it for $40 this time! The next time to follow was a total cancel where the next person said I can let you have them for $20 showing they will do anything to keep you hooked when I let them have it. When making that point I was told the account would be left in case I reconsidered for several more months. Initially the offer was seen on Facebook and then subsequently became regular Junk Mail! Still the same old The Doctors weekday tv show clip on ecigs for keeping the membership scam going! But I didn't come anywhere near the amount you were taken for. It simply sad however but to be expected with interest someone will always be trying to exploit this type of product as well as anything else simply to grab up all the $$$$ they can!
