Just be sure to buy one from a reputable retailer and NOT fasttech... they almost always sell clones.
Got mine from Fasttech. If it is a clone, it is an exact copy, I mean exact-down to the packaging and instruction manual. Only I paid $40 less than my friend who purchased his in the states. We got ours on the same day. If it were not for the fact that we were using different vaporizers, it would have been absolutely impossible to tell the difference. His price was still some $20 less than the local B&M. It measured the same exact resistance when we swapped vaporizers. I did not let mine out of my hands at that stage. Was he upset? You guess. I just had to wait a little longer for mine.
It would be nice if people would check the facts and at least attempt to understand the realities of the marketplace. With very few exceptions in specialty high end mods and RBA's, most of the ecig stuff is made in China anyway. The electronic cigarette was developed there. China is an incredibly competitive marketplace.
Some of the RBA's and mechanical mods from Fasttech are most definitely copies. That is easy to understand when some purported geniuses think they can sell a vaporizer for $200 or a mechanical mod for the same price. A mechanical is nothing other than a tube with a connector on one end and a switch on the other. A modern machine shop with the right type of CMM and software could reverse engineer such a simple design and be ready to cut production parts on the next with modern CNC machine tools -probably to tolerances better than the original. It may not be fair to the small inventor with limited engineering and production capacity who could not afford to protect himself with patents in a niche market. Nobody could have predicted the explosive growth from a cottage industry to a multi-$billion global market.
One does not clone products when your original source can make them cheaply and deliver good quality like Innokin.
Fairness is relative. The inexpensive (does not = cheaply made) products from China have saved countless thousands from analog death sticks. When it comes to my health, I will look to find the best value for money, especially when I have to get on a waiting list for a ridiculously overpriced mod or vaporizer with delivery and spare parts support issues.
The minute a new product hits the market without patent protection, it's fair game. Nobody seems to have an issue with the DIY'ers cloning or trying to clone popular juices where the mark ups are many multiples of the hardware.
