Where do people buy their hardware ?

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Sylvie

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elementvape, vaporbeast and fasttech is mostly where i have been buying hardware the last 2yrs. first one sometimes has slightly higher prices but, more current stuff, second usually has decent prices and both ship fast. fasttech has a large selection of hardware at very cheap prices but, lots are clones and it can take a couple weeks sometime to get your stuff since it a china base company but, it is a good place to get things like accessories (coils/orings/bottles/etc) and RDA/tanks for cheap and even non-cloned mods these days too.
 

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I bought my first real device in a vape shop. Paid way too much. Since then I have bought almost all of them from My Vapor Store online. I have also bought almost all of my tanks from MVS. I have bought atomizers from MVS, Element Vape, Vapor Beast, My Freedom Smokes, and a few others along the way. I buy all my batteries at vape stores because I want a convenient way to return them if they're fakes and I can inspect them before I pay. I have tried three of the Chinese companies, FastTech/Gear Beast/Health Cabin. I may use Health Cabin again but Fast Tech took over two months to get my order to me and Gear Best has the worst customer service I've ever seen in my entire life. I'll never use either place again.
 
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    I bought my first real device in a vape shop. Paid way too much.

    nah, I got you beat buddy boy lol .... My first vape device was from VAPORFI, which is a company that charges about 4 times what any other company on the planet will ever charge for a similar device.
     

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    nah, I got you beat buddy boy lol .... My first vape device was from VAPORFI, which is a company that charges about 4 times what any other company on the planet will ever charge for a similar device.

    Hah. I have heard of VaporFi. I looked at their site...looked like a tremendous rip off.
     

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    Oh I forgot that Health Cabin now charges $15 to get your stuff to you...whenever. Probably won't be using them ever again either. They're in China and the mod I looked at that they have listed as clearance is only a dollar less than the same thing at MVS. No thanks. I'll wait for MVS to be in stock and pay a reasonable shipping fee for an order that will get to me in a reasonable amount of time and be happy with their excellent customer service.
     

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    Hah. I have heard of VaporFi. I looked at their site...looked like a tremendous rip off.

    LOL .. very wise of you because you are correct and it is a rip-off ... But, you have to understand, that I was/am an idiot and so I fell for their wonderful ( and phony) advertisements lol .... But what do you expect from a dude trying to quit a 40 year old smoking habit and not knowing what is truly out there on the market... Of course, I know what is out here NOW but that didn't save me from the allure of Vaporfi back in the day lol
     

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    LOL .. very wise of you because you are correct and it is a rip-off ... But, you have to understand, that I was/am an idiot and so I fell for their wonderful ( and phony) advertisements lol .... But what do you expect from a dude trying to quit a 40 year old smoking habit and not knowing what is truly out there on the market... Of course, I know what is out here NOW but that didn't save me from the allure of Vaporfi back in the day lol

    Oh I was right there with you. My fleecing just happened face to face instead of online. I paid something like $75 for a single Vision Spinner, a couple of generic iClear 16's, and two 15 ml bottles of juice back in 2013.
     

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    Oh I was right there with you. My fleecing just happened face to face instead of online. I paid something like $75 for a single Vision Spinner, a couple of generic iClear 16's, and two 15 ml bottles of juice back in 2013.

    yeah, I suppose a lot of us got suckered :( ......... BUT, just think, now that you know better, you can help newbies from falling onto the same miserable trap that we both fell in to :)...........
     
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    yeah, I suppose a lot of us got suckered :( ......... BUT, just think, now that you know better, you can help newbies from falling onto the same miserable trap that we both fell in to :)...........

    True. It ...... me off enough to do my homework after that. And now I regularly show people how to get stuff without being ripped off, so that's a good thing.
     

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    True. It ...... me off enough to do my homework after that. And now I regularly show people how to get stuff without being ripped off, so that's a good thing.

    You da Man..... and I am PROUD of you for that fact.... I am SERIOUS dude, because that shows me a bit of empathy from you and also shows me you care about other people, which I admire very much...
     

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    You da Man..... and I am PROUD of you for that fact.... I am SERIOUS dude, because that shows me a bit of empathy from you and also shows me you care about other people, which I admire very much...

    Well, it's also the only way to 'even the score' so to speak.
     
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