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No, Gearsbest is based Shenzhen as well, but they have warehouses in Switzerland just like FT to address the battery shipping issue. FT even mentioned they were going to move their battery inventory to their Swiss warehouse last summer, but I don't if they have already done that or not ?

Smoktech has warehouses in the US as well as the smoketechus store site. But the price at FT for the latest epipe model wasn't $70-$90 either. Try $43.11 with free shipping in contrast to what I was finding everywhere else.

Never had any problems with Gearsbest, the stuff always came.

Some in states apparently have. But I also hear complaints on other vendors at times as well usually about the shipping time. The find here is that ordered placed on friday nights seem to arrive on mondays or thursdays depending on which vendor you order from. At this time items now are either restock or something new being looked at and not anything that is in need of a rush.
 

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Smoktech has warehouses in the US as well as the smoketechus store site. But the price at FT for the latest epipe model wasn't $70-$90 either. Try $43.11 with free shipping in contrast to what I was finding everywhere else.

Some in states apparently have. But I also hear complaints on other vendors at times as well usually about the shipping time. The find here is that ordered placed on friday nights seem to arrive on mondays or thursdays depending on which vendor you order from. At this time items now are either restock or something new being looked at and not anything that is in need of a rush.

If you already haven't notice, the second it reaches North America the greed factor kicks in.
5000-8000% profit is the norm, where do you draw the line between profits and greed ?
Greed is the number one cause for North American industries faltering, not the media created myth of jobs going overseas and then demonizing them for stealing our jobs at the same time !

 
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VapeNW is a good place there. I have ordered from them on several occasions already. But at the same time I won't order everything from there or any other place except for my usual ejuice source as a rule. Ecigsupply.com has been where I been getting the Innokin Cool Fire IV Plus 70w mods, Freemax Starre and Starre Pro tanks while VapeNW was for the Atlantis V1 tanks. A seller at Amazon saw the V2 Mega tanks bought recently there while PBDragon has been handling the 510 drip tips lately. Here I will tend to be found "Item Specific" shopping and look up the best deals found.

As for pricing many sites may actually be physical local shops who sell online as well as in a local shop where the overhead will tend to see higher prices often at the MSRPs. That is what keeps them open for walk in purchases while other sites are online only type vendors without the overhead and can see things marked down a bit.

The growing problem at this time as seen with any other type of products sold online is once the popularity grows and the vendors increase you have those who get in it simply to see how much they can rake in! A classic example was seen during the CB Radio craze back in the 70s when every other hooblah dad&mom shop set up a cb shop to cash in once the licensing became free! I knew one couple who traveled all around in a mobile trailer home selling mainly at cb fares.

In the 90s the internet was opened up to bring in the desktop pc boom! where all new pc component sites sprung up for custom builders. And that certainly is only one product in contrast to all the other types of... ecommerce seen since. Presently we have not just the hand held device boom but new mods with Bluetooth capability! And every gas station seems to stocking on Big T brand cig alikes as that also has become a growth industry. While you have some places that remain active advocys others are only seeing the "Cash Cow" for quick cash.
 

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I placed a dozen or so orders near the end of March with FT, GearBest, FocaleCig etc... and the one for the batteries from Gearbest was the one I thought would have taken the longest to arrive. To my surprise it was the first order to arrive precisely 14 days later, the Samsung 25R batteries from Gearbest. They ship out from their warehouse in the Netherlands and is marked "Power Source" instead of batteries, more than one way to skin a cat ...LoL
I just placed another order for two more sticks and for $7.33/2 with free shipping it is a steal !
 
Sounds good! When preordering the latest epipe mod from FT since there were no batteries involved that was in 3-4days after the release date scheduled by tracking for friday until someone new at the PO goofed up seeing a saturday delivery of the wednesday release date! The pre-order placed on 3/16 the wednesday of the previous week still came much sooner then had been expected from FT while one from 3Fvape seemed to take almost a full month! Of course I have run into a couple of US vendors that took forever to process and ship anything!
 
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