websites and reasonably priced RBA's

[surfingrice]

Picked up my first vape about 2 weeks ago. Got a eGo-CTwist with a Mini Vivi Nova. Had my last cigarette on the 10th of March, and I don't feel the need to ever pick another one up! For the past few days I've been doing nothing but looking at custom builds on youtube and, and watching pretty much anything to do with vaping. Living in Okinawa, Japan, and luckily theres a guy here that has tons of products for sale. Think I'm going to upgrade to a Vamo V5 here soon. He carries Taifun, and Pulse G rba's. They're super pricey, so I'm kind of looking for an alternative online. Just something to experiment with. Any sites or rba's you would recommend?

thanks for reading!

-surfingrice

 

[PhatRon]

PennyVaper.com

That is a pretty good site for finding some decently priced items!

 

[bogmonster]

I've some stuff on a slow boat from China bought from e5cigs.com Picked up a kayfun lite clone w/ airflow control for $14 CDN.

I'd imagine you'd receive their shipping faster than I can over here. Fasttech.com is another popular Chinese distribution centre

 

[SleeZy]

I went with FT. They got plenty of stuff to choose from.
There's a risk that you'll order like 10 more items while you're there... but meeh

 

[surfingrice]

Thanks for all the information guys. Definitely going to check out all those sites. bogmonster, you ever had any quality issues with clones?

 

[bogmonster]

It's my first one. I'm a bit of an RBA virgin. From what I've read, there are 2 main clone builders, HCigar and Tobeco, and reviews are mixed. Most people are happy, the the quality control just isn't what you get from the original manufacturers. Sloppy threads, not cleaned properly after being machined, poorly seated posts seem to be the most common complaints, but then others say they're no worse and sometimes better than the originals...

I guess the problem is that anything that comes off the line gets shipped rather than thoroughly inspected. Guess that's why they can sell them so cheap. Returns are rarely an issue because it would be so inconvenient to ship back and wait for judgement.

Most of what I've heard was good enough for me to take a chance. $15 and a month's wait for it to arrive in Canada, Not a huge loss if it turns out to be less than stellar.

I picked up a Vision Eternity from a local shop for $25. It's an Ego-sized RBA that hold a fair amount of liquid and will give you a better idea of what's possible with a good dripper/RBA system. It gets poo-pooed a lot because many have already moved on to bigger and better, but it's worked stellar for me so far and tides me over while I wait for the Chinese shipper. I can test my hand at coils when I've gone through the one's it came with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRAGJwLtcqo

Not sure if your local B&M carries them, but it's not an expensive experiment.

cheers.