ULTRA cheap e-liquids / supplies.. anyone have any experience?

[CraigHB]

Buying from China is buying from China. You can get stuff cheap, but shipping is expensive and if they send you wrong or defective stuff, you're out of luck. There's also the quality issue. The last thing I would buy from China is juice. China makers are notorious for poor quality control and contamination. I don't' think I'd be wanting to inhale something all day every day without the highest confidence in its cleanliness and purity. I mix my own juice so I don't buy my juice ready to vape, but I buy my ingredients from a USA vendor that sells USA made stuff.

Hardware is a different story. As long as I'm sure I'm getting original stuff and not some crappy copy, it can be worth it for the savings, especially in larger quantities.

In any case, it is amazing how cheap they sell stuff in China. There must be a pretty big disparity in the value of our money versus theirs. There's also the big disparity in labor costs. Some of these vendors are running huge markup, but it does cost a lot to ship the stuff over here and they are the ones taking the risk and eating the returns.

 

[Dario]

Buying from China is buying from China. You can get stuff cheap, but shipping is expensive and if they send you wrong or defective stuff, you're out of luck. There's also the quality issue. The last thing I would buy from China is juice. China makers are notorious for poor quality control and contamination.

The last I checked the only known juice from china that was contaminated came from one vendor. This particular juice and its data was used to help leverage the FDA to consider ecigs as dangerous, which didn't happen. I may be wrong but I thought it was just one.

I have a lot of friends in China and seriously, there's some crazy media driven influence in the western world that sheds an unflattering light in their direction. "China stuff sucks" is some kind of cheer in the USA. I don't know. It all cant be that bad. Walmart loves China.