What built the e-cig industry is not pre-filled stick battery styles but the raves of people who had upgraded. Pre-filled stick battery types are not something people get excited about and tout to other smokers. I believe they are "tolerable" as a substitute for most people, rather than something to be enjoyed on their own merit. (How many of you started raving to your friends about that first pre-filled, cigarette-style e-cig you bought vs. the upgraded ones?)
I would love to have access to blu and njoy's customer sales records - how many of their sales are long-term (over 1 year) repeat customers and how many are one-time purchases or a month or two that never come back? Hard to tell with store sales, though, so it'd have to be online customer records. The point being, if the market was only pre-filled, cigarette-style e-cigs, the market would not continue to grow, because the word-of-mouth raves would be far less and many more new vapers will revert back to smoking because they don't like the lower quality, lack of options and (in my opinion) being limited to fake tobacco flavors would make people miss the real thing (kind of like how eating a veggie burger, when you want the real thing, just makes you want the real thing even more, lol!) The cigarette-style companies have benefitted A LOT from the raving reviews of the vapers who use advanced models. Most people don't want to start with something that looks like a mini flashlight, so they start with a cigarette-style. We've all heard the stories about people who have tried the cigarette styles on their own (without finding a place like ECF) and quickly went back to smoking.
How many people do you think have bought a cig style because they heard eGo, Provari and/or custom liquid users raving about "e-cigarettes?" How many of those eGo, Provari or custom liquid users were raving about e-cigarettes before they got their advanced models and flavor options? I know I never told anyone how great my $90 "OMG" prefilled, tobacco flavored e-cigarette was. It wasn't until I got better flavors and better batteries that I became a true "fan" and started raving. If they eliminate that advanced segment of the market, the cig styles will seriously be hurting their own market, too. Hopefully, they are smart enough to figure that out,but I fear their own egos may get in the way. If they succeed in staying on the market when everything else gets banned, they will find out what really drove their sales the hard way.
I would love to have access to blu and njoy's customer sales records - how many of their sales are long-term (over 1 year) repeat customers and how many are one-time purchases or a month or two that never come back? Hard to tell with store sales, though, so it'd have to be online customer records. The point being, if the market was only pre-filled, cigarette-style e-cigs, the market would not continue to grow, because the word-of-mouth raves would be far less and many more new vapers will revert back to smoking because they don't like the lower quality, lack of options and (in my opinion) being limited to fake tobacco flavors would make people miss the real thing (kind of like how eating a veggie burger, when you want the real thing, just makes you want the real thing even more, lol!) The cigarette-style companies have benefitted A LOT from the raving reviews of the vapers who use advanced models. Most people don't want to start with something that looks like a mini flashlight, so they start with a cigarette-style. We've all heard the stories about people who have tried the cigarette styles on their own (without finding a place like ECF) and quickly went back to smoking.
How many people do you think have bought a cig style because they heard eGo, Provari and/or custom liquid users raving about "e-cigarettes?" How many of those eGo, Provari or custom liquid users were raving about e-cigarettes before they got their advanced models and flavor options? I know I never told anyone how great my $90 "OMG" prefilled, tobacco flavored e-cigarette was. It wasn't until I got better flavors and better batteries that I became a true "fan" and started raving. If they eliminate that advanced segment of the market, the cig styles will seriously be hurting their own market, too. Hopefully, they are smart enough to figure that out,but I fear their own egos may get in the way. If they succeed in staying on the market when everything else gets banned, they will find out what really drove their sales the hard way.
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