I'd whole heartedly agree.
A product that doesn't work out of the box is a POS; something that should have been heavily beta tested, but instead was:
1. Prematurely released out of greed by a Chinese Manufacturer.
2. Greedily received by the western reseller(s) and sold to customers.
3. Customers get excited, especially when said product is rebranded as SUPER FUSION MAXOMIZERS or something like that, and
buy it.
4. Other suppliers get worried that they don't have this new product, because their customers, after prematurely glazing their monitors from the excitement of something new, ask them why they aren't carrying this new God-Send.
5. More suppliers get the same dud.....some even brand it HE-MAN-FLUX-CAPACITOR-MAXO-THERMAL-GODZOMIZERS, which creates further excitement as the original customers of the SUPER FUSION-MAXOMIZERS are now contacting the supplier to ask what the difference is between the theirs and the new HE-MAN (only the logo).
6. More confusion ensues as customers try and find the factory or chinese reseller where these originate, to beat the prices. Some succeed, some only find the SHE-GIRL-MINO-MIZERS that are just knock-offs.
7. Even worse, some of the customers who find this new SHE-GIRL-MINO-MIZER, buy it and open up a company, selling it as a HE-MAN, which is really a SUPER FUSION, which is really what should have been a beta product that nobody ever should have purchased.
8. Buyers remorse.....worldwide. Some pretend the product is really good, because in some cases, with a specific type of liquid in a specific type of circumstance, similar to the specific way you needed to hold the iphone 4 so it wouldn't lose your signal, it did work, sort of.
9. The creative hobbyists and reviewers figure out a way for everyone who got screwed into buying these products to now be able to actually somewhat use them. Some people even adapt a mind-set of, "that's what you get with e cig stuff, you need to prime them or prep them or tweak them or dry burn them, etc etc" (kudos to those who do).
10. The new SUPER-HE-MAN-FUSION-SHE-GIRL-INFUSED-ULTRA-MIZER V2 is released by a chinese manufacturer, to the chagrin of the anxiously waiting western supplier, who has a 3 month lead-time to start the whole cycle all over again, before everyone else jumps on board and fuels the mayhem of "the new e cig product".
There are most definitely exceptions to this and while I am hopeful... our industry seems to be largely based on this cycle.
It is most certainly a unique occurrence with e cigs. I've never heard of needing to recook my McDonald's burger in order for it to be edible, or bleeding my feet in my new Nike shoes for 2 weeks before they are as comfortable as walking on a cloud.
Happy New Year Vapers!
Pretty intriguing isn't it. How nice would it be to order something that does and performs exactly the way it is suppose to. I'm not really talking about regular attys and cartos but more along the lines of the clearomizers, smokimizers, visions, those type of things. Not having to remove those bridges, fluff the wicks, widen the slots for better wicking and so on. Don't get me wrong, I love to tinker and fiddle with things to get them working just that much better ALMOST as much as Mindfield does
(great tutorials by the way) but it would be nice to just to pop one of these out of the package, fill with juice and BAM your in business. Just my
O.K. my little rant is over, wishing all my fellow Canadians and all ECF users for that matter a Happy New Year!
I need a drink and a vape.
Cheers
