Vendor Monogamy

[bakedtart]

I'm also a DeejStuff fan! Since discovering his list of e-liquids & fantastic customer service, I've not ordered from anyone else, unless we're counting hardware. Greenhouse One won my heart for equipment.

 

[jplanet]

I was exclusive to one vendor for a few months, but then was left scrambling for alternatives when I was nearly out of juice and couldn't place an order as they just happened to be closed for vacation the week I was running out. So, I ended up ordering samples from several vendors, and found a few new favorites in the process. I still occasionally order from the vendor I was once loyal to, but now I keep a variety of vendors' juices in rotation.

 

[Mr.Mann]

I was exclusive to one vendor for a few months, but then was left scrambling for alternatives when I was nearly out of juice and couldn't place an order as they just happened to be closed for vacation the week I was running out. So, I ended up ordering samples from several vendors, and found a few new favorites in the process. I still occasionally order from the vendor I was once loyal to, but now I keep a variety of vendors' juices in rotation.

That would and does suck! I actually puffed on and old, stale nail (a while back) do to a similar situation. I guess you don't want to get caught with your pants down.

 

[bsidb]

I mix up my juice , every batch has 60mg pg base from 2 vendors,4 total vendors niquid on hand, ive bought 4 E-Powers from Crystal Clear Vaping,i was loyal to same on his Resurrectors until i found the(with some misses) Ultimate Ce2 which i only buy from Myvaporstore, and i buy way more than i use or need

 

[FogMatic]

I've been in an exclusive relationship with Copper Creek for 8 months now. I'm sure there are one or two other vendors whose juice I would enjoy as much, but after my first four months of vaping I spent over $500 on mostly nothing but dud juice. When I finally found something I liked and liked a lot of, I decided to stop looking. After all, how many great juices do you need? I've tried all of her flavors, I have 25 in my stash that I keep in rotation. About 6 of those are gotta haves, can't live without.

Since discovering Copper Creek I have no reason to look further....and the fact that they are only an hour or so away sealed the deal for me!

 

[TamJeff]

I'm down to one supplier of hardware. I had to remind myself that I started vaping to make quitting smoking easier. One of the reasons I wanted to quit smoking was because of the hassle it imposed on my lifestyle with having to go buy cigs or when to think about buying them, or not running out. When I started vaping, I started making it a priority just like the smokes. I really didn't need a new habit/hobby.

As far as juice is concerned, I have narrowed it down to a few simple DIY flavors. I am actually to the point where I could quit this altogether and have been cutting way back unintentionally, now that the novelty has worn off. I am liking having all this extra cash in my pocket that these consumable dependencies were using up.

 

[zerominusone]

I get my juice mostly from Johnson Creek but they don't have too many to choose from so I get my 'once-in-a-while' juices from any where else.

 

[CrystalClaire]

I rarely cheat on KBV but when I do, it's with Ms T's.

 

[B2L]

Decided to make my own juice so I ordered about 20 flavors from 2 venders one of which is recomended here and the scent is so chemically strong it is unvapeable to me or my wife. Read a bunch more and contacted the vender and the suggestion was to steep the flavors to bring out the flavor and when I asked how long, was told there is no answer to that question because everybodys taste is different, and hardware is different But when I buy the V2 juice it always taste the same so my thought is there has to be a maxium steep time for all flavors. My flavors are starting to come around after several weeks and are getting beter every day. I neither have the desire to or have the time to be playing with this stuff day in and day out., and if I make a batch of something today and it taste great will the next batch a month later taste the exact same? I also read here on ECF about trying unflavored juice to make sure that it was not the atomizer causing the chemical taste and I was hooked on it. I would like to have several flavor to be able to use, I am not worried about the cost as I would gladly pay 3-4 times for the flavors if they were perfect from the get go. Not only am I wasting the flavor but the Nic,PG and VG to make it all happen. So for the time being I will let my stuff steep for several months, then will try aging and if I have sucess I will order many many flavors and just let them sit in the basement for months before trying to use. Out of the 20 or so flavors I got there was only 1 tobacco flavor that I could use after delivery. The Spearmint and Wintergreen were horrible but are starting to come around.
B2L Thanks for the suggestion as I will order some and try again if not they will end up in the steep pile,sooner or later I will have so many flavors to try

I have had some flavors that tasted like industrial cleaning solutions when mixed at too high a percentage but are great at lower percentage so maybe try a weaker mix on them. I usually start at 20% flavor unless I know it to be a very strong flavor and then adjust from there. I always start out in small batches too so not to waste too much nic and mixer.

 

[Mr.Mann]

I rarely cheat on KBV but when I do, it's with Ms T's.

Yeah, Ms.T will probably always be my girl on the side...

 

[aubergine]

I've forsaken most all others (a heap of 'em) for KBV, but have been seen now and again creepin' round the back door at Virgin Vapors, Copper Creek and Highbrow. All fine juices.

 

[kittypie]

I have a standing date with Virgin Vapor for juice. The quality of the juice is without rival, imho. Annette is a master mixer, she goes above and beyond for her customers, and it's obvious to me that she sees us as people and truly cares about us. We are not just dollar signs to her. And watching her build a successful business appeals to the "girl power!" in me. But once in a while, Ill have a dance with NLV for Bounty Hunter

Todd at Maximum Vapors has my loyalty for box mods of incredible workmanship and value.

Vapor4Life has me for 808 cool carts.

 

[lasttango]

A lot of fine vendors out there... I'd say there are certain vendors I frequent... and only a few that I shun. I shun the ones that provide poor customer service or that are openly dishonest... (like one 10ml bottle of our liquid is like a carton of cigarettes! or... you'll be able to vape all day on this 300mah battery or the ones that won't disclose that they use flavourart when I ask... etc)

For juice I use 7 to 8... this month it's been aroma and halo more than others... bwb, bluemist and AV are always in the mix...For hardware i I know I can always rely on Vaprlife, Ikenvape and COV.

 

[Mr.Mann]

A lot of fine vendors out there... I'd say there are certain vendors I frequent... and only a few that I shun. I shun the ones that provide poor customer service or that are openly dishonest... (like one 10ml bottle of our liquid is like a carton of cigarettes! or... you'll be able to vape all day on this 300mah battery or the ones that won't disclose that they use flavourart when I ask... etc)

For juice I use 7 to 8... this month it's been aroma and halo more than others... bwb, bluemist and AV are always in the mix...For hardware i I know I can always rely on Vaprlife, Ikenvape and COV.

I got to get me some of that Halo. I have heard many bad things, but certain posters (whose taste I feel a kinship with, like lasttango & Kemosabe) really make me eager to try. After all, I have hated many juices that seemed to be widely revered!

I want to drip some HALO!

 

[ogredog]

Monogomy, no NOOOOOO I cannot stop buying and trying from new vendors. It is an addiction. I've found many vendors I am happy with but I continue to search for juice that blows me away.

Lately I have been thinking about giving up the search and settling with two flavors. (Not vendors) Cinnamon and ry4 .

When I order I ALWAYS purchase a vendors ry4, a coffee, a bakery, and fruit and any unique to the vendor juice. It is becoming tiring and feels like wasting $( and I HATE having to suffer through so so juices just because I don't want to feel like I threw my money away)

Here are my personal tastes after a little over a year of vaping:

I realize with coffee-i like to drink it. It just isn't the same.
Fruits/teas/beverages are good on occasion.
Bakerys/sweets- I like to eat them.
Tobaccos-i like the mixes but not imitation cig flavors. ie ry4, vanilla tobacco etc.

Ry4 and red hots/fireball/big red whatever are two that aren't easily screwed up. Some better some worse but after trying all sorts of flavors these are the two I can come back to and say ahhhhhh yummy hits the spot every time.

Im not sure if I have found my all day vapes or am just giving up but I think the days of me carrying two pvs and six-8 flavors will be over soon...... then again I'm gonna get my taxes back so i probably will go hogwild again and will buy enough juice to raise stock prices lol

 

[ogredog]

Do u ever feel like going into business for yourself so u can do it right? Lol I wouldn't be the mixer cuz I don't know jack, I will just be the owner and taster and I would never put out crappy or so/so or untested flavors even if I only carried 3

 

[smitty727]

For about a year I ordered all my juice from 1 particular vendor because of their quick shipping and decent juice. Back when I was trying different vendors I had often ended up getting juices that were terrible so I figured why gamble and just stuck with that 1 vendor. Then when they had some problems with credit card processing I was forced to start looking around at different vendors and in hindsight I'm glad that happened. I've tried some new vendors now and have found my old vendor's juice ain't really that good. Customer service was good but the juice was just so so. My favorites now are COV's Cloudpure Naturals, Virgin Vapor, Want2Vape & Vaperite - but I ain't married to them. Always looking for something better, especially Coffee flavors. But now I always order samplers to begin with since I've got a bunch of large bottles of juice I can't stand sitting around permanently steeping.

 

[Mr.Mann]

Ry4 and red hots/fireball/big red whatever are two that aren't easily screwed up. Some better some worse but after trying all sorts of flavors these are the two I can come back to and say ahhhhhh yummy hits the spot every time.

Yeah, I have come to realize that those cinnamon flavors just light my fire!!!!!!!