So I got an e-cig kit for a penny....

[Mamacruz13]

A few weeks back, I guess just after Thanksgiving, Reddit was doing a promotional deal with a company called Victory e-cigs. They are your typical 'rip off' company where you buy the kit and then they automatically send you new cartridges every month for a monthly fee. Well the promotion allowed you to purchase the initial kit for a penny without setting up the monthly subscription and if you liked it then you can come back and they will subscribe you. I liked the wording that came along with the promo... here is a link to the promo.. which is now dead, btw.. Free Electronic Cigarette

Anyway, I finally got the thing on Friday and gave it a try just to compare to my other cig-a-like. They sent me the tobacco flavor even though I requested strawberry, but for a penny I'm not going to complain. I personally thought it was gross and tasted like stale cigarettes, but we all know taste is subjective. It's a decent little 510, think I will order a few empty carts and keep them as a back up for when I'm out and about and run out of power on my x2.

My only concern is the penny charge ended up posting to my card as a catagory 4 instead of a 1, a cat 4 means it is a reoccurring/ subscription type charge meaning automatic billing. A cat 1 would be your typical online/phone purchase. As I mentioned earlier, they do a cart subscription with their normal starter kit purchase. I'm a little nervous that I will get hit with a 30 dollar charge in the next few days... If it happens, you bet your sweet bippy I will be on the phone with them and I probably won't be so nice. As I did in fact call them the day I made the order and had the customer service rep reassure me that with the promotion there was no monthly charge... we will see... thankfully I work for my bank in our credit card dept, so I can get it nipped in the bud tout de suite. But if this is the case, I feel for the average joe that doesn't have the easy access like I do.

Wow I rambled lol. All I wanted to say as I got two bats, charger and carts for a penny haha... I blame that on the fact that I'm a female...

 

[volume control]

I started with those, got the kit free and they sign you up for 15 carts a month at 25 bucks, youre definitely going to get hit with the charge, just cancel now. I took the 15 carts and cancelled(ended up paying 25 for 3 batts, a case, chargers, and 20 total carts), switched to V2 cigs which were a lot nicer. Now im on an Eroll and the V2 with liquimax.

Those are okay i guess for something to try out and get your feet wet with ecigs but if you find them to lack a little there is MUCH better stuff out there. Good luck

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

call your card provider and tell them any futiure charges from this company will be fradulent. they wont even charge you. Just explain to them that this offer was offered as a non recurring thing and it showed up as recurring and you have no way to contact the company to deactivate it.

 

[Jarski44]

I had a friend send me that link, we poked around quite a bit and found they had two 1cent kits, one with the subscription and one without. A bit sneaky if you ask me because if you started navigating around the site, the subscription kit was really easy to find, and nothing that I could see clearly delineated the two kits.

I did end up ordering the kit for my friend as he was interested in trying them (he ordered a different flavor). I made doubly sure to come in from the no subscription link before I ordered though.

 

[Mamacruz13]

I had a friend send me that link, we poked around quite a bit and found they had two 1cent kits, one with the subscription and one without. A bit sneaky if you ask me because if you started navigating around the site, the subscription kit was really easy to find, and nothing that I could see clearly delineated the two kits.

I did end up ordering the kit for my friend as he was interested in trying them (he ordered a different flavor). I made doubly sure to come in from the no subscription link before I ordered though.

See, I did the exact same thing... I googled it, checked out the feedback from a few online deal/freebie forums and made sure to order from the one that specifically stated nothing about monthly fees or subscriptions. I then even called their customer service line and the girl on the line assured me that if I ordered from the promo link then I would not get the monthly charge. But we will see. I'm not too worried, like I said in my OP I work for my CC provider in the credit card fraud dept, I can get it taken care of quickly. IF this does end up turning sour though, I feel for all the average consumers that got screwed that might not know how to take the appropriate steps to get their money back.

 

[45root]

go to slickdeals and watch thie thread on it. slickdealers are pretty good about dealing with this type of thing.

1 million $.01 victory e-cig starter kit. valued at $59.99 - Slickdeals.net

 

[Mamacruz13]

Oooo I feel special, I'm being quoted over there from this thread hehehe.

Slickdeals is actually the forum I read over before I decided to go ahead and order. Now I'm seeing some people are getting hit with the subscription charge and some aren't.

Truth be told, I will give the company this much... Because I googled their company, a link to ECF popped up in the results, so the same day I made that order I started to actually look into e-cigs and found there was this whole world of PVs out there and have since ordered a few eGos and also Volts and x2s from smokeless image... I've been cigarette free for almost a month now and I feel amazing. So while I'm not going to fall for their little subscription scheme, they did inadvertantly lead me into this community where I found far superior PVs lol.

 

[45root]

congrats. stick with it.

for future reference, try to use a prepaid card for stuff like this. also go ahead and call your credit card company and try to get that settled. whats your slickdeals name? i am the same on most forums.