Swapping open bottles of e-liquid

[Katoo]

I keep feeling slightly disturbed by the swap section where I see people swapping or selling opened bottles of e-liquid. I mean, yes, I understand it, I have several bottles of stuff I don't really like that I only tried once that is perfectly good.

But, this is a very anonymous forum on the internet. I'm uneasy about tampering and let's face it, there's some weird people. I would just hate to see a post like "Riskee juice made me sick" and it turned out the person bought an open bottle from a stranger.

This is a real tight trusting group. Am I being overly cautious or paranoid?

 

[turbojunk]

I think that you have to work on the assumption that the vast majority of the world's population would never knowingly harm a fellow human. THis also applies to this forum's users.

I've made a couple of swaps and purchases with people who are relatively local and all have gone well. However, I might avoid buying anything from someone calling themselves Dr Crippen, or Charles Manson

If you want to be ultra cautious, it's easy enough to use paypal to confirm addresses when buying or swapping juice (when swapping, you pay eachother a small sum of, say £1.00)

Kev

 

[Mufftrix]

Never really thought about it like that, but as we basically swapping poison anyhow they would have to be very warped, If there any such people on this forum or lurkers you may have now planted the seed into there heads

I think like turbojunk says most people are genuine and just got flavors they don`t like? I know I have tried several that just 3/4 drips is enough to tell it isn`t for me and rather than waste it have sold it on.

As a matter of fact at moment am tempted by a bottle offered to me by a very nice gentleman called Graham Young 8-o

 

[GabbyD]

The same thought went through my head, but then I thought about how much I know the suppliers I buy from and how much I know about the Chinese manufacturers.....decided the risk isn't really intensified.

 

[Frankie]

Yes, considering we actually swap deadly poison it reminds me of the desperate cry in M*A*S*H when K. pretended to try and burn himself alive:

Klinger: "Who put gasoline in my gasoline???"


(If the other party wanted to hurt me, there would not be a real problem to reseal the bottle and pretend it has never been opened, I think.)

 

[flocktexture]

I never really thought about this either but even after you brought it up it's not something I'm worried about...

 

[Deb]

Maybe I'm too trusting because it's not something I've not thought about either. 8-o

 

[ZambucaLu]

It seems too that most of those swapping have posted here, asked about what to buy, then shared their experiences with not liking something. So swapping seems the next logical step. I never thought about it either.

BTW....some of you guys are too funny here!

Lu

 

[Tasdad]

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Sorry, I just had to.

I agree that most people would never knowingly harm another person. Of course there are exceptions. I would be wary of trading with someone who you know nothing about. I would not trade with someone who is at 1 or 2 posts. But I think most people on here are pretty good. Just look at their previous posts. If there's a post about how much cyanide to put in e-liquid, you should probably stay away.

 

[smokum]

Definatelly a tough call.......

I don't believe I'd find myself purchasing open or even unopenned bottles from anyone. Simply for the reason that I personally wouldn't offer them myself because if I wasn't satisfied with any given flavor there would be no reason to not use it as a diluter by dropping into a liquid that I enjoy.

I would think that by only putting a couple drops or so of the disliked liquid into the other wouldn't be enough to actually alter the overall taste and in the end would extend one of my favorites by one bottle when all is said and done.

Thats MY view on it anyway.

VapeOn
-Greg

 

[Bastage]

I've never purchased opened liquid but I wouldn't think twice about doing it. I have sold open liquid on this forum before. I don't think anyone here would do such a thing. It's not common for people to purposefully poison someone they don't even know. I wouldn't worry about it too much.