What do you do with your old gear? (donation discussion)

[GamblerMagic]

I know a lot of us, including myself have amassed a vape collection. Most of which is unnecessary at this point.

I was curious where people "offload" their used mods and atty's? I'm not talking to get money from them, looking for more of a donation type thing. Yeah I spent my money on them, but they're just sitting on a shelf when each one of them could be used to help someone else stop smoking.

I'm not talking high-end gear either, mid-tier, broadly commercial stuff. I've also got some equipment from wire building that hasn't been used much either.

Thoughts? I didn't want to list what I have just because I didn't want it to be interpreted as a sell post.

Thanks ladies and gents! Again, not really looking for money but rather trying to help the less fortunate, or financially inclined folks out there. Searched around the forum a bit but didn't really find what I was looking for.

 

[Shawn Hoefer]

Offload? I collect.

 

[bombastinator]

Two places. One, the marketplace, is only semi-active atm afaik. In particular there seems to be a hitch in the getting “verified” process, or there was. That forum is here:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forums/member-classifieds-and-swaps.708/
If you’ve already been verified you can use it.

The other option is the PIF section. This is solely for giveaways
Pay It Forward - PIF

 

[GamblerMagic]

Two places. One, the marketplace, is only semi-active atm afaik. In particular there seems to be a hitch in the getting “verified” process, or there was. That forum is here:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forums/member-classifieds-and-swaps.708/
If you’ve already been verified you can use it.

The other option is the PIF section. This is solely for giveaways
Pay It Forward - PIF

Thanks! I'll go stalk them.

 

[bombastinator]

Thanks! I'll go stalk them.

Cool. The PIF section has some somewhat convoluted rules to create a sort of PIF cue, based on the date you last received a PIF. It’s documented in there somewhere I think.

 

[JCinFLA]

@GamblerMagic - Just a heads up that in the PIF forum the "giver" also pays to ship it to the receiver. Usually it's not much, depending on if it can go First Class Mail or not.

There are also sometimes older members who post in the regular forums, who've been using older set-ups and now have trouble finding replacements. So they ask for advice and info on newer stuff...not necessarily the newest though. They receive lots of recommendations for the newest, quite a bit more technically advanced gear than they were used to. But, some don't feel quite ready for that yet. Also, some can't afford the higher priced mods and or tanks right now. So...they're people who would most likely appreciate some of what's "old gear" to you, because it's still "newer gear" to them. I've sent several people some in the past, and am sending more Tuesday. Those older vapers also don't usually know about the PIF forum at all, unfortunately.

 

[listopencil]

I have been talking to friends and coworkers about vaping for years. I can usually find someone around me who is willing to give it a try with gear that I don't use.

 

[listopencil]

@GamblerMagic - So...they're people who would most likely appreciate some of what's "old gear" to you, because it's still "newer gear" to them.

Someone on this site did that for me although (apparently) I am not supposed to talk openly about it according to community standards here on the site. I will say that she was very generous and extremely kind with her donation. I have put it to great use for myself and others.

 

[Eskie]

Someone on this site did that for me although (apparently) I am not supposed to talk openly about it according to community standards here on the site. I will say that she was very generous and extremely kind with her donation. I have put it to great use for myself and others.

You're not? Someone was nice enough to do that for me and I've thanked and acknowledged it openly. I didn't know it was a breach of protocol. If someone does something nice out of the blue without my even asking I never thought it was bad to post about it. See? You can always learn something new every day.

 

[bombastinator]

You're not? Someone was nice enough to do that for me and I've thanked and acknowledged it openly. I didn't know it was a breach of protocol. If someone does something nice out of the blue without my even asking I never thought it was bad to post about it. See? You can always learn something new every day.

Growing curious as to the particulars on this one. Why would it be against the rules?

 

[kross8]

I pif some according to the receiver needs/vape style. Until recently I held onto the 'zombies' hoping to run across someone who could rebuild them or use their parts in a new DIY form. So much of the gear we use up has many good parts that the DIY community of 5 years ago would love to have,,, and while DIY isn't as common now, , I have to believe there are some people out there who enjoy that aspect of the vaping hobby/lifestyle

 

[JCinFLA]

Someone on this site did that for me although (apparently) I am not supposed to talk openly about it according to community standards here on the site.

From what I've understood, in the regular forums...members aren't supposed to ask for assistance (donations), nor advertise things that they'd like to sell or trade...since there are other places specifically for that on ECF (ie. the Emergency Assistance subforum/thread, the Classifieds).

 

[Eskie]

Growing curious as to the particulars on this one. Why would it be against the rules?

Got me. I was just going with what @listopencil posted. I don't know if that's like an actual rule (TBH I know the list of rules here is pretty long and I haven't read all of it, felt too much like cramming for the bar exam) or forum social etiquette. I do think it's more like what @JCinFLA wrote, there's no solicitation or exhangd/trade offers in the general threads. That's for the classifieds and the other threads mentioned.

But I'll go along with whatever it's supposed to be. Maybe it is treated like Secret Santa where the donor wants to remain anonymous. I will say that before I did publicly acknowledge it I checked with the member before posting about it to be sure they were OK with it. I figured if they were good the forum rules would be cool with it.

 

[Vapemesilly]

I have two sons who vape. One is a poor college student. He gets most of my hand-me-downs.

 

[ranjen617]

I had a time in between coming back on board. So with that being said I have boxes of it at my other home. Here, several things piling up every week.

I gave a few atty's and mods to several people since 2012 or 2013ish. To help them start out and stop the analogs who were less fortunate. In my old community I was very prolific in the vaping community that I did anything to help. I'm sure in the next few months I'll go ahead and purge some juice since I'm into DIY now. Just holding off until I know my recipes are going to be fine.

 

[DeloresRose]

I tend to use my gear until it’s obsolete or is no longer functional. Juice though, I’m always giving that away. I know a few local vapers and they’re always welcome to a few bottles from my stash.

I would pif some of my gear if someone was in need but I really don’t have anything I desperately need to get rid of right now.