Okay I'm finally going to throw in a couple of things here. But my personal plans remain just that.
I personally have been saying this for awhile. There is one easy step that HC could do to completely halt online transactions in Canada and would take them all of an afternoon to accomplish (not mentioning it here for obvious reasons) anyway the point is that if we do not switch to local sellers than this is a true problem.
I agree with somethings you say there Jimilives buying local is great. But what if they do not offer what you are looking for? Then you are forced to go elsewhere.
Now elsewhere can still be within Canada, through a different vendor. But the problem with this is the shipping. Some times the shipping is cost is just not worth it, especially if its just 1 item (a battery or a pack of cartos/attys, etc....).
That leaves us (the consumer) looking elsewhere for our goods. So naturally we look south of the boarder for these goods. We then find said product and we look at the shipping rates and find that its still slightly cheaper than ordering local/Canadian.
Now I know that my statements are also bring up other issues like exchange rate and delivery times and possibly other things. But to me these are things I can deal with if I know I am going to be saving
xx.xx on an order. Especially if its a small order (larger orders may differ).
As for the pros of buying local. Well I sure would love to be able to drive 5-15 minutes to said mall in my area and pick up juice/hardware. Fuzz if it was that easy then I think I would get a part time job there just because this is something that I enjoy and feel has saved my life.
The problem is that every new seller thinks they need a website, this simply isnt true, I am sure most of you know we do alot of wholesale and the top 3 sellers we have do not have websites. And one is not even in a major area, look at your corner store, they sell how many packs of smokes every day? There is a local market no matter how small of a town your in, and the truth is that word of mouth catches vaping on far quicker than the net, the reason is most smokers are not on ecf or on youtube watching vaping videos because they have either never heard of it, or they were exposed to vaping by people selling those cheap kits.
Agreed that most people think that they need a website. BUT would they need this if they were able to setup a shop at their local mall? No, oh but wait they can't, unless they want to go 0-nic or "be sneaky" about it.
Also note that Health Canada is currently in the process to opening commercially produced Mary-Jane by select corporations to supply patients with product for profit. This is to get around their current single source and single strain problem [found to be Unconstitutional] The products will not have a DIN number as the strains required for patients is too numerous!
Health Canada/Government tried to deny access and it was found Unconstitutional.
Health Canada tried to limit Choice and it was found to be Unconstitutional.
Health Canada says market authorization is required with DIN numbers yet sells products without it and are in the process of granting Corporation to do the same!
The problem with this is that this "product" is not available to the "general" public. IF the same prinicipal as this could be done for nic juice then we would have a "solution" of sorts.
Things need to change in Canada (government and vendors) IMHO.
Will they? We can only hope. But it probably won't be any time soon and that hurts all of us.
Sound like a plan???
