Most vapors I run into on the street don't know about ECF, they either learned from a friend or a B&M. I still find it shocking how little research they do before starting.
REOS in a brick and mortar
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B&M is too expensive of a overhead business. E-commerce I would think is a cheaper business model.
How would you prefer a B&M contact you if they had interest in carrying Reo's? We have plenty enough of them around here that I can tour a few, spark some interest and pass out business cards.
All they need to do is email me I am always happy to work with B&M stores
Most certainly do understand your desire/need to pursue this for your business.
I don't do business with local B&M's myself. My take on them comes mostly from local B&M's naturally, and this venue from one MFG I have personal knowledge of that sold their wears both direct to consumers one line and to select B&M's. This is just my take, YMMV.
In this city the number of B&M's has fluctuated constantly, with numbers up to near 100 of them at their peak times. They come and go pretty fast around here with only a percentage that have lasted the test of time. Those that don't make it could be for any of many poor business decisions. Among them that they have no clue about vape gear, or at least their hired help doesn't. Some maybe because they can't compete with MFG's that sell their gear to consumers direct and/or on line, or vendors that do the same when they also try to sell to the locals retail. Some probably survive mostly on the highly inflated prices they sell there joose for. I did DIY for a few months early on in my vaping, and joose costs next to nothing to make even at home. Far less when made in the volume a B&M could and especially in the extreme volume an on line joose vendor can simply because of the volume of supplies they can buy for greatly reduced cost. I also know what B&M's paid for one US MFG's high end mods, and their profit margin on them was very low. They sold them for what the MFG sold them for direct to consumers on line, maybe a ceiling "suggested" by the MFG. So they probably carried them as a convenience item for locals that already knew the mod and to get them in their store in hopes of getting other business from them, and maybe to appeal to some walk in traffic in hopes of gaining their regular business as well.
Selling Reo gear via B&M's will certainly increase the number of folks in the vaping community as a whole that knows they exist. How well they are received though will be dependent on the knowledge/attitudes of the staff of the B&M's themselves and their follow up customer service. Neither from most will equal from Reosmods and your forum here. IE, around here neither are stellar in any way for anything in many of the B&M's, and they won't last long. In part why that other MFG mentioned sold theirs via "select B&M's only". B&M staff can add new Reo users to your customer base, but they can also assure some will never become Reo users.
I wish you well in this new venue, but watch your top knot.
I have been selling to B&M stores for some time In most cases the people that own the stores use reos . I always try to direct new customers to the reo forum there is so much to learn here . I have no experience with vape shops I have never been in one I live in the forest my friend . The same warranty applies to a reo bought from my site or a B&M many of my customers have no idea ecf exists .
I think I am a typical vaper. Spent the last few years going on and off vaping almost exclusively for gear related reasons. Got all my hardware and advice from B&M stores. My vaping experience was truly awfull. Then I saw a guy with a REOS and he said simply to go to ECF and read up. My vaping experience went from maybe a D or D- to A in a few weeks. So yes, research. But also, the REOS may be a very good step up mod for people going to a B&M. It has a short learning curve, is easy to maintain and has community dedicated to improving the experiance. I think positioning the REOS brand in B&M with the included documentation pointing to ECF is a good idea.
If I would have depended on B&M's for vaping knowledge, I still wouldn't know what a REO mod is, or a bottom feeder of any kind for that matter, b&ms around here are all about tube mechs and gazillion watt box mods and cumulus clouds. It's kinda pathetic really.
The two B&M I've stopped in here on LI were sheeeeet....I couldn't believe the prices they were charging for clones, fake Kanger, $0.90 per ml no name e liquid..I get you have an overhead but, c'mon I'd at least try to support you if it wasn't just a complete shameless rip off capitalizing on people that don't know any better.
I just looked around and got the know it all young sales person with their giant 150w box mod telling me all about the Kanger sub tank he had on it.
I couldn't resist and just fed into it. Asking the dumbest questions, "so the liquid goes in there?" "That takes AA batteries?"
Never mentioned anything about the REO. Couldn't be bothered. They had a few kraken genny clones for $45..lol
Asked about them and no one knew anything about building them or how to with SS mesh...
They warned me at least that they were for advanced users. One positive...
I just looked around and got the know it all young sales person with their giant 150w box mod telling me all about the Kanger sub tank he had on it.
I couldn't resist and just fed into it. Asking the dumbest questions, "so the liquid goes in there?" "That takes AA batteries?"
Never mentioned anything about the REO. Couldn't be bothered. They had a few kraken genny clones for $45..lol
Asked about them and no one knew anything about building them or how to with SS mesh...
They warned me at least that they were for advanced users. One positive...
I must be the only person who has not been in a B&M shop. I am kind of out in the country. Found ecf after buying a Blue kit and trying to figure out refills. After a couple of weeks of reading on ecf I found the reo sub-forum, never left it 
My Reos have been to several local vape shops. I go in mostly to check for drip tips and maybe to get some juice. If vaping is allowed, I have broke out my Reo and hit it a few times. Sure was surprised when no one had seen a Reo before. One shop keeper wanted me to leave because he did not want to have a problem with "super-sub-ohm" coils. When I explained I was vaping a 0.8 ohm dual coil he called me a liar. Said,,,"no way to get that much cloud" He broke out the ohm meter and apologized profusely.Even gave me a bottle of juice for free. I am now, that Reo guy...
I must be the only person who has not been in a B&M shop. I am kind of out in the country. Found ecf after buying a Blue kit and trying to figure out refills. After a couple of weeks of reading on ecf I found the reo sub-forum, never left it
I'd never been in one til last week. Went out of curiosity.
hehehe Bruce....... I'm not a cloud chaser at all......but I am kinda amazed at how much vapor I'm getting with a 1.3 net dual coil build on a nuppin with 70 pg juice
I live in the woods too and a year ago discovered a B&M opened in one of our larger towns. Went in and bought a pair of Evods. Then I found EFC and eventually had to investigate Reos and DIY juice. Have not been back to the B&M since. I think I'll stop in to see what's changed and maybe show off my Reo.
Being an old Derelict, I do like to visit the shops around here. Mostly go to vape only shops but do hit the vaping head shops. Sure, the kids look at me funny until,,, I break out the Reo. I am no cloud chaser but do get respectable clouds along with flavor.
It is a lot of fun to introduce some tourist to all that is Reo. I have even broke into my travel kit and put the little atty with a one ohm coil on to blow some vape. Surprising, no one knows what a Cyclone is.
It is a lot of fun to introduce some tourist to all that is Reo. I have even broke into my travel kit and put the little atty with a one ohm coil on to blow some vape. Surprising, no one knows what a Cyclone is.
The only Reo I have ever seen in the dozens of vape shops near me is mine. I do mention ECF and Reosmods.com. Always surprised that most do not know ECF but I understand why the shops do not want their customers to know anything vape related online.
Like, I said in a earlier post in another thread. I, remembered seeing one in my B&M and drove 80 miles round trip to feel one and check it out good before I pulled the trigger. Not once while I was there did anybody try to sell it. He did give me a battery so I could get a better idea of the weight. I, knew more than he did because of this forum. Owners and sales associates need incentive. Like, stores that sell X number of mods in a quarter get X to pass on to the associate that sells the most. In Columbus, Ga 95% associates are under 35. They, are all about high powered boxes,tube mechs, building super sub ohm coils and massive clouds.
I, guess what I'm trying to say is they need something to make them want to learn Reos so they can sell Reos.
I, guess what I'm trying to say is they need something to make them want to learn Reos so they can sell Reos.
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