thoughts on chinese new year-how to prepare?

[baseballmom]

Ok since I've only been vaping 6 months, I have never experienced the Chinese new year and am curious how it affects the supplies. I placed orders today that hopefully will last me 1 month at least just to be prepared and I was running low anyway-but I've heard it's a good idea to stock up now(or are people being dramatic?), and have the supplies already to attempt rebuilding kanger pt and evod heads. Does it affect the US vaping community a lot and cause major out of stock issues or is it a mild and just overhyped online? What can us newbs really expect?

 

[440BB]

As there are many more vaping suppliers in the states now, and this is an annual occurrence, I think the two weeks of no shipments from China will have little effect on most vaping supplies. If you wanted the latest and greatest thing that just came out, and it's chinese, you might have to wait a bit.

 

[grandmato5]

The newest fads made in China that everyone wants to try have the best chance of selling out and being on the "can't find list" until the pipeline gets refilled. Last year was weird. For some reason it took forever to refill the pipeline on lots of stuff even for some of the vendors that thought they had properly prepared. Last year seemed much worse then years previous as far as getting that pipeline refilled. Hopefully that's not gonna happen this year. We'll know in a couple weeks

MANY of the complaints come from people that are simply impatient. They want to buy it TODAY and want it DELIVERED tomorrow. Anything longer then that and they throw a fit. Sometimes the complaints come from those that have just started vaping and simply aren't aware there is a reason their stuff might not be available for a few weeks. If you are vaping on a theory that you only purchase what you NEED for a couple weeks at a time and reorder just before you are about to run out only from your favorite vendor then ya, might run into a problem.

 

[Robino1]

I remember last year. It was my first time dealing with CNY. The Vivi Nova was the pet of the moment and it took FOREVER before replacement heads came back into stock. Well after the CNY was over....like a couple of months. This year I have five 5 packs (25) new heads in my vape station. Just in case. That's the only thing I have to worry about that comes from China.

Last year was rough for everyone. I think it might get that way again since there are new vapers entering the ecig world. There have been more and more each year jumping into this vaping world.

 

[r77r7r]

It'll give everyone a chance to try something new

 

[aikanae1]

As there are many more vaping suppliers in the states now, and this is an annual occurrence, I think the two weeks of no shipments from China will have little effect on most vaping supplies. If you wanted the latest and greatest thing that just came out, and it's chinese, you might have to wait a bit.

I thnk it's more than 2 weeks. Fast Tech extended shipment dates out 90 days for factories that failed to give them a restocked date. FT claims it's an over estimation (preferring that to under estimation) but they are a lot closer to the source and have better knowledge of the situation.

It's hard to believe it's been a whole year now. I started vaping just before the CNY and my first posts in the New Member section were rants about how retailers could run out of stock on everything for so long! It was until April before things smoothed out again and still I wouldn't call the supply chain "smooth" in comparison to other industries. Big retailers don't know what they are getting until they open the box, even group buys are surprised with design changes after payment, shortages are not filled until next order, MAP pricing, demands for exclusivity on branding, some products discontinued without rhyme or reason, random shipping problems, extended holidays every other month (for factory workers that live at work), different plants and manufacturers making the same product, cultural differences overall. That's not a smooth distribution system even in the best of times.

Maybe ECF should hold a lottery on how long supplies will return to normal? Hopefully it will be better than last year but I suspect the growth rate of ecigs that keeps supplies limited even during non-holidays, will take more time to get production and back orders back to where it's not noticable.

 

[cocacola31173]

My vendor always list what and how many of what he got in stock and it seems like he's got plenty. I just went ahead and bought my reg monthly supplies which is just protank heads and some cartomizers.

 

[CommaHolly]

if you order anything from china direct,,,,,it's probably too late and you'll end up having to buy from a B and M here in the states and pay extra for the convenience,,,,,

if you're low on anything, I'd go buy it NOW at a B and M, just so you have it,,,,,,,,

 

[baseballmom]

thank you all for the replies-it will be interesting to see if anything affected or not this year