I don't see how thats offensive at all. Some people place more importance on price vs quality..they'd rather spend less money, even if it means they receive an (potentially slightly) inferior product.
by saying some people place an importance on price vs. quality or taste, it's saying that people who like MBV (for among other reasons, but among them their low price) do not like quality or have any taste.
Inferior and superior are subjective. We can all agree that if price was no option that a lot of us would probably stampede for Jameson's, Five Pawns, Mad Murdock, and a few of the middle-range-price vendors-- but even with all that you'd still have people who like to vape these lower-cost ones. Not because of the cost, but because they like it.
It's not up to you to say that they have no taste or can't enjoy quality.
I actually don't have a dog in this fight. I enjoy the MBV crowd (and company) and have a bunch of MBV stuff for my boyfriend to try, but if he doesn't like it, it's not going to have me negate 800+ pages of people posting about MBV, and many times talking about what they enjoy a lot from that company. And I'm definitely not going to try to simplify why they like MBV as price-only, nor am I going to say that because they like MBV then they don't have the ability to enjoy quality or good taste.
That's pretty presumptuous.
However, let's just chalk it up to something hastily typed without realizing the ramifications of what your words would read like to others.
Exactly!
Ive tried literally hundreds of different juices at local and regional vape meets for the past 4 years of vaping on and off and MBV makes the top two of worst juices Ive ever tried.
Number one is Crab Juice and that should tell you something.
Taste is highly subjective but if you look at the polls for last years top juice suppliers and flavors it's clear that MBV isnt even in the same league as HHV, Ahlusion, Alice in Vapeland, Alien Visions or dozens of other e-liquids suppliers out there.
Then when you do a cost comparison between the various vendors on price per ml the reason for their popularity becomes evident.
Take that as you will.
Zapped--several of those vendors are on my list to buy. But, once again, there's a few dozen people who regularly post on the MBV threads who really like MBV among other vendors that I'm sure they have in their juice collection. I'm reminded of what one person wrote in talking about meeting someone in person who had tried MBV and hated it-- he actually pitied the guy and was like "I'm sorry, that really sucks to be you."
I'm trying to come up with something that I feel similarly about taste-wise as you two feel about MBV.
My two most hated foods are canned tuna fish and white chocolate. I think both are frakking disgusting. I may get shudders of revulsions when I've seen (or thought about) people eating either, but I don't believe I'd ever say to a group of people "anyone who like canned tuna or white chocolate places a higher value on cost, than on quality or taste."
Maybe they just like canned tuna and/or white chocolate. They're happy with it. I don't have to eat it, and I can complain up and down about how disgusting I think it is, but people liking these things does not mean that they don't think that their canned tuna and/or white chocolate is quality food, and tasty to boot.
why should I care so long as my food money isn't going towards food that disgusts me? And if I was in a lunch room and someone's significant other packed them tuna and white chocolate for lunch and this person told me how disgusting they thought it was, I'd agree with them and then look at the lunch room and say "I betcha you can trade it for something you like better from one of these people here."
Sidenote:
Quality is an interesting term and pretty flexible in the vaping community. If a liquid is standardized and prepared in a hygienic environment, that's a good start to quality. If there's not diacetyl or dyes in the liquid, that's also quality. U.S.A. made to me is also necessary for me to think it's more likely to be quality than not, but there's people on here who love Chinese juices and have said that the labs making the Chinese juices are probably more stringent with quality control than small mom-and-pop's here in the U.S. I still wouldn't buy from China personally BUT I think that point is very valid and I could see how Chinese juices could also fall under the title of "quality." Then you get into glass jars, and organic ingredients, and top-notch customer service, and stock that's always available, and a website that's easy to order from.
It's up to each consumer to decide what, to them, means quality. Not you. You can decide quality for yourself and no other.
And if my boyfriend hates MBV's flavor-- that's cool. I still will consider them a quality shop because of several of the points listed above. And if I try any of those vendors you listed, zapped, and he hates one of them, well that's life in Vape-world. How many hundreds of vendors do we now have to choose from?
OP-- sorry you had a bad experience with MBV. I hope you put your bottles up on the trade/PIF forum if you haven't already.
