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joelongwood

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Since I started vaping back in April 2010, I've tried quite a few e-juice suppliers. I now use two pretty much exclusively.......Backwoods Brew and FSUSA. FSUSA has a larger variety of excellent e-juice so I get some of the flavors I like (Hopscotch, Wyatt Earp) from them, but IMHO, Don at Backwoods Brew provides a superior product, along with customer service that is unrivaled.
Each and every juice that I've gotten from BWB has been a solid 10 across the board.........taste, TH, and vapor production. If you are into tobacco e-juices that are as close to analog as possible, then BWB is the place to go. Great weekly sales and great variety? Go FSUSA.
In reality, you won't go wrong with either one. :D
 
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lasttango

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please list the suppliers that you use and rate them all

spend a few minutes going through the reviews... they are loaded with reviews...

It would also be helpful to know your criteria... there are many good ones... depends what you want. There a so many threads you can read that will help you.

some folks like heavy flavor/light flavor... sweet, tobacco, a lot of vapor, throat hit...

there are too many different ways to "rate" them...
 
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Yeah, what lasttango said. Taste is very subjective and one person's garden is another person's desert. There are some excellent reviews here that will give you a good description of certain flavors and the supplier's who offer them. I've been ordering my liquids from Backwoods Brew for a long time and I can highly recommend them for excellent CS and very high quality, made to order juice.
 

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Thank you for all your responses. i do relize that everone has differnt tastes and desires i set up this thread cause it is exahusting going through all the million threads(lol) i figured noobs could come here and get a bunch of vapor sites. all in one thread. al little about me. i started 25 years ago smoking marlboro lights. i quit smoking this year for 5 months. just like many of us going to bar screwed that up. i came to the realization that i enjoy the act of smoking. i like the feeling of inhaling. so i decided to try ecigs. i have been using the ecig for three days now and not one real smoke. i was searching for a tabacco taste that tasted like marlboro lights. after loking on the threads im convinced that there is no such animal. i order the halo pack and none of the juice taste like tabacco or shall i say burnt tabacco cause thats what e all smoked when we smoked. i order a m602c ecigarette with pcc that looks like a cigarette pack to simulate my smoking experience.(smoores). i also order a marlborro light flavor doesnt taste like tabacco either. now the torque 56 is growing on me it tasts nutty and sweet. so i figured being i will never find a malboro light simulation. i decided to enter the world of flavor. i would like what ever flavors i decide i want them to hit my throat like marlboro lights. not weak but i dont want it to feel like pall mall camel or marlboro reds. i am trying to get rid of the nicotine over time im shooting for two or three months. i want to continue just with out the nic. like i said i enjoy the act of smoking. thank for listening like lasttango said you wont know what im looking for unless you kmow my criteria. thank you for any information anyone leaves me. kenny
 

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Order samples or small bottles and test them for yourself.

I have read juice reviews that made me drool on my keyboard, yet tasted like junk when I actually tried those juices.

I have read miserable, horrible, even ugly, reviews of a juice and found it to be pretty good when I finally gave it a try.

Every person has a unique opinion about what is good and what is not good.
 

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I think PKJ has the best advice. That was sort of my oringinal plan. Buy 5 small bottles per week, until I got a large collection built up, or at least until I knew what my favorites were going to be. However, my first order contained a flavor that I think will stay with me forever. Mint Chocolate Chip from Totally Wicked. Now the questions I have to ask myself, do I want to stick with that, and not even try anything else? do I want to experiment with other vendors' versions of chocolate mint, since the TW stuff is pretty expensive? Maybe I'd just like plain mint, or menthol (Is there even a difference between mint and menthol?)

Another word of advice, these reviews are your friends. True, taste is subjective, and all that hooplah, but there is usually a general consensus about what vendors are good and not. For instance, Backwoods brew. I think I've read only one review of them having a "weak flavor". Otherwise, people are fighting for a chance to try his stuff, because he has to shut down shop to get his orders caught up. Another flavor, Boba's Bounty, seems to be the holy grail of e-liquid. On the flip side, if someone says a certain company's e-liquid is bad (not mentioning any names here, but i think the "creek" is contaminated), its probably safe to listen to them.
 

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There are some excellent juice suppliers out there. Myself, I prefer the hand-mixed to order juices. Sometimes I open a bottle out of my new order and I love the juice...can't put it down.

However, 90% to 95% of the time I find I need to let the juices steep for 10 to 14 days (sometimes more). The steeping process of hand-mixed juices allows the flavors to meld and the juice to reach its full potential. You realize this is just my opinion and personal preference.

Good juice is important. Customer service also rates high on my list. Do they have a phone number listed on the website? Are they prompt (2 business days) in answering email inquiries? How do they handle customer complaints here at ECF? Do they respond with appropriate words and tone or are they flip and uncaring? How they respond here is how you can expect them to respond to you if you have a problem. Do they reward their customers with an occasional sale? Do they have email alerts to give customers a heads-up on sales, new products, website problems, etc? I hate going to a website that is down for several days or finding out about a great sale after the sale is over! Not everyone comes to ECF 50 times a day for updates :)

It's not easy to find a juice supplier that meets all of my expectations....let alone finding three suppliers that meet my expectations. I think I have found three. I did not want to settle for just one supplier. I wanted two or three because that gives me buying power when they have sales. It gives me a back up in case my supplier becomes ill, goes on vacation, or goes out of business.

And one of the three suppliers I found and like is just a 45 minute drive from my home. That means I have access to emergency juice and equipment supplies in the event something happens to my juice or equipment. That was important to me too.

I rambled enough,
Happy Vaping,
Paula
 

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My favorites:
FSUSA - has awesome sales, great customer service, and their flavors are fantastic. You also have an option for added flavoring. They also carry a ton of samples for a cheap price. Shipping is $5 for any size order. They always are having a sale going on. If you like tobacco, Wyatt Earp is fantastic.

Mister-E - great customer service and their tobacco flavors are great. Cognac Fire and English Meadow are my two favorites from here.

MyFreedomSmokes - Chris has really great unflavored nic juice if you like to Do-It-Yourself. High quality and excellent service/fast shipping.

Gourmet Vapor - Shipping is a tad slow but well worth the wait. They are having a 40 percent off sale now through Christmas. gv40 is the code for the discount. Flavors are great and so is the unflavored but takes about 2 weeks before you get your order.

VaporBomb - fast shipping and excellent flavors. Cinna-bomb tastes like an actual atomic fireball. True one I've found so far.

TastyVapor - Atomic Cinnacide, Tasty Finger, and Pecan Pie are my 3 favorites from this vendor. Fast shipping and customer service is outstanding.

***If you order a flavor and don't like it right away, let it steep in a cool, dark place for a couple of weeks. Most flavors are made fresh and need the time to come into full blossom. If after 2 weeks, and you still don't like it, post it on the Classified as I'm sure someone in the community would buy it off of you.

Paula...I'm totally jealous of you having a vendor so close. Closest one to me is in Lawrence, 150 miles away. Not a huge selection (I looked at their website one time) but I would use them if I needed to.
 
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i was searching for a tobacco taste that tasted like marlboro lights.

I like Marlboro lights... trick is to find a dry, full tobacco with an unsweetened cocoa finish...

Closest I have found to date... nHaler's Kent... ESCI's Hilton and while not a malboro taste, BWB's Casablanca is more like a camel cig, with that unsweetened cocoa aftertaste of a malboro light... casablanca might be a good one for you to try.
BWB Virginia might be too...

For Tobacco vapes... straight up - tobacco without sweetness or fruit etc...
I like ESCI, nHaler, VaporFlow... Totally Wicked...

I am mostly a BWB Fanboy... Most of my liquids are Backwoods Brew, Alien Visions and VapeRite... but these are tobacco plus a little something... I recommend all three. BWB's Hunter's blend, Virginia and Maxboro... AV's Boba's Bounty is popular.

I also really like ESCI/Kick Liquid, nHalker, Halo, Vapor Flow, TW French Pipe, Good Prophets VG DK Tab and vapor Talk's Dulcis...
 

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I think VS Tampa in 16mg is in the Marlboro Light neighborhood.

Here's my endorsement. These are the vendors I already have or would order from again:

Vapor Station
Backwoods Brew
Vaperite
Halo
Vermont Vapor
Vapors Etc
BlueMist Vaping

It's a pretty short list. All of these makers have tobacco juices that set them apart from the herd.
 

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My hubby was a 3 pack per day Marlboro Light man and even though we both stopped smoking immediately when our first PVs arrived, he tested many tobacco liquids trying to find a fully satisfying flavor. I am the flavor hound and kept poking my flavors at him, only to get that familiar frown and head shake and handed back to me. My first Backwoods Brew order contained a bottle of Applewood. I expected the same rejection when I asked him to try it. Lo and behold, that turned out to be his holy grail. Every once in a while he vapes my BWB Virginia but Applewood satisfies his desire for a Marlboro Light. It has a unique tobacco base with a mild smokey autumn apple undertone. As with most of Don's liquids, age brings out the full potential. As for his customer service? Impeccable.
 
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