Sure is nice to have some great vape shops in town!!

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BigCatDaddy

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We have 4 vape shops in my little town. I regularly visit 3 of them and I must say they have some great folks as owners and employees. I can go in and taste all of the juices I want and sit and chat about vaping for hours on end. Ahhhhh!! The last 2 days, I've been hanging at one that has a rebuilding area set aside and have had a blast rebuilding some great coils for my Kanger tanks. We've built split coils, micro coils, even some sub ohm coils and they vape great in the Kangers. I bought a couple of the Artistic Wire Gizmos to use and you can wrap some really tight coils with them. When I left last evening, one of the employees was building a Diamond coil. I'm really excited to get back over today and see how it turned out. I'm amazed at the vape quality that's coming out of these tanks and little coils. Ahhhhhh, vape life is good!
 

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I do the same thing at my shops and vape up all their stuff and talk!:2cool: I've met some really nice people too! A new buddy just got a Provari and let me try it. Very nice but not for me. Still thinking about working at one shop. Maybe in a few more months when I've learned more. They're getting sofas and have a big tv too.
 
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I do the same thing at my shops and vape up all their stuff and talk!:2cool: I've met some really nice people too! A new buddy just got a Provarri and let me try it. Very nice but not for me. Still thinking about working at one shop. Maybe in a few more months when I've learned more. They're getting sofas and have a big tv too.

Sofas and a big TV, excellent!! A little popcorn and beef jerky and you would never have to leave, yes!!
 

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I've got several good ones in the area, and one fantastic one. Little hole in the wall shop behind an oil change place. Doesn't look much bigger than a closet from outside, but they stock a HUGE variety of great gear, have excellent prices, they're always very nice and friendly, and go way out of their way to help newbies make good decisions and understand what they're buying and using.

My ONLY complaint about them is their sample flavor setup. They use cheap clearos instead of carts for their flavor samples, and it mutes the flavors too much. I even demonstrated this little problem to the owner by having him taste his own flavor through his test clearo on an eGo, and the same flavor through my Halo Triton. He was amazed at how much better it tasted through my Triton. Hopefully next time I walk in he'll have switched over to cartos for the samples, or at the very least convert to a better clearo.
 

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I've got several good ones in the area, and one fantastic one. Little hole in the wall shop behind an oil change place. Doesn't look much bigger than a closet from outside, but they stock a HUGE variety of great gear, have excellent prices, they're always very nice and friendly, and go way out of their way to help newbies make good decisions and understand what they're buying and using.

My ONLY complaint about them is their sample flavor setup. They use cheap clearos instead of carts for their flavor samples, and it mutes the flavors too much. I even demonstrated this little problem to the owner by having him taste his own flavor through his test clearo on an eGo, and the same flavor through my Halo Triton. He was amazed at how much better it tasted through my Triton. Hopefully next time I walk in he'll have switched over to cartos for the samples, or at the very least convert to a better clearo.

Everyone should have a great shop around, glad you found one. Most all of the ones I visit also use clearos to test flavors with except one. He uses 808 dripping atomizers and the flavors really pop. I buy a banana nut bread from him that is just outstanding. I've been hitting it for well over a month and the flavor still pops for me.
 

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I have 3 good ones in my area, love going in and just picking people's brains for a while, waiting for my juice to get mixed


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Yes, visiting with fellow vapers is great!! I too, like to hang, chat and vape, always seems to pick up a little tidbit here and there.
 

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We currently have 1 in my area.... but it's new and still small. Hoping the area will show it lots of love and it will spawn others so there will be some competition to keep prices down. Right now they are the only game in town so prices are quite high.

I've found most of the B & M's have MSRP prices on their hardware but juices are comparable to online prices. I always try to buy a little something, just to do my part to keep them afloat. It's good for the first-timers to buy in one tho, hands-on for the first device is almost a must IMHO. They all seem to have that deer-in-the-headlights look...much like I did the first time in.
 

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    I would have been lost trying to figure out what to do if all there had been was mail order when I started, and would probably never have started vaping. Back in 2011 there was just one little shop (electronicstix) in town, but they really knew what they were doing. Now ENS has 4 stores and a large wharehouse, and there are eleven other vape shops in town. (there are more vape shops than smoke shops here if you can believe it)
     

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    We have 4 vape shops in my little town. I regularly visit 3 of them and I must say they have some great folks as owners and employees. I can go in and taste all of the juices I want and sit and chat about vaping for hours on end. Ahhhhh!! The last 2 days, I've been hanging at one that has a rebuilding area set aside and have had a blast rebuilding some great coils for my Kanger tanks. We've built split coils, micro coils, even some sub ohm coils and they vape great in the Kangers. I bought a couple of the Artistic Wire Gizmos to use and you can wrap some really tight coils with them. When I left last evening, one of the employees was building a Diamond coil. I'm really excited to get back over today and see how it turned out. I'm amazed at the vape quality that's coming out of these tanks and little coils. Ahhhhhh, vape life is good!

    Cool! No shopps in my area & then the same guy opens two in different citys with in 3 miles of me. he sent me a flyer & prices look pretty good. I'll be checking them out soon. I am amazed someone would chance opening a B&M shop in the current anti vaping climate. Maybe they know something?
     
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