vape NW has very competitive pricing on a lot of hardware, and orders over $75 ship free via 2 day Priority Mail.
Where to find the best price?
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I preordered the new 75w smok Guardian 3 epipe mod on 3/16 and it would have been in on the 25th but someone new at the local parcel delivery messed up! While the updated tracking showed the following monday a week ago friday it came in on saturday after contacting the PO directly! FT shipped that same week as soon as it was available and from preorder to arrival without any other shipping option was within 10 days from Hong Kong where they are based. Someone else however reported an order lost in limbo for 3 months likely from having a battery included which meant no air freight due to unpressurized cargo holds. Shipped by freighter instead. This is one thing to look at when not ordering from a domestic source.
If they ship from HK then it may be faster than from Shenzhen?
Well that was the thing for the new SMOK epipe on preorder generally filled by seeing it ship from a wholesale distributer rather then the vendor while the order is placed at the vendor's site. Rather then being shipped twice to the FT warehouse it was shipped directly here noting a PO Box with FT on the return address!
I use them for buying coils often,they usually have really good prices. I ordered 5 packs of coils from them Monday morning, they are out for delivery today. Vapenw also has good prices on hardware and coils. Both of them have shipped very fast for me.
I also use 101vape and myvaporstore.com. If I'm getting new hardware I always price between them 4 and buy from the cheapest. All have fast shipping tines and the few times I've had any issues with the product itself they have been very fast with responding and correcting them.
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I ordered quite a bit from VapeNW that's a great site there! And they are prompt at getting orders out! I ordered all of the Atlantis V1 tanks an 5ml replacements there having seen the best price when that tank was first out!
101Vape is where I just restocked on Atlantis coils while I went to EcigCharleston for the spares needed for the FreeMax Starre and Starre Pro tanks! Those are sold separately and saved $3-$4 a pop for the $1.99 tag over the usual $5-$6 per coil. It still comes down to price shopping when looking for specifics and happen to catch a few good sales while you are at it in order to keep overall costs down!
101Vape is where I just restocked on Atlantis coils while I went to EcigCharleston for the spares needed for the FreeMax Starre and Starre Pro tanks! Those are sold separately and saved $3-$4 a pop for the $1.99 tag over the usual $5-$6 per coil. It still comes down to price shopping when looking for specifics and happen to catch a few good sales while you are at it in order to keep overall costs down!
It depends where the item is warehoused, FT has warehouses in Shenzhen, HK and Switzerland. Most vendors from China know that customs inspectors in the west have a basis against them so they ship out of HK or Singapore etc... this is why most have shipping offices in those places as well, they know how to get stuff out fast and cheap !
Best to order all items separately this way they get shipped from any warehouse without having to wait for the complete order to be sent to the central location before shipping out. Never order batteries with the same order as this goes with any vendor oversea or it will take the slow boat across the pacific which can take up to 60 days or more ! I learn't that the hard way last spring when I ordered a mod with batteries, the item was sitting on a ship in HK for 30 days before it sailed it arrived 30 days later for a total 60 days on the dot like they said it would and the silly part about all this was that you have to pay extra for it to be shipped freight(slow boat) because they require a tracking number and the free shipping was shipped international air !
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So far every FT order to date has been simply for a single item being sought mainly the Dovpo 30w vinyl mod ordered back in early 2014 if not in Dec. 2013 and just lately the new SMOK Guardian 3 epipe mod. The first took 3 weeks as I recall likely due to the busy shopping season while this was a preorder that got filled sooner.
pay for slow boat but free for air, that is what drives people insane..
How do you figure? Air freight for priority and overnight are the higher priced rates and it's generally anything with a sealed battery or batteries ordered that ships by freighter.
Well as he said himself that was a mod "With Batteries" that was sitting on a shipping dock! With batteries means no shipment by air freight due to security concerns as well as often some cargo planes not seeing pressurized cargo holds which can have a bad end result when a battery bursts in flight!
Your smartest move is never ordering batteries from one side of an ocean to the other! Order domestically! Mods without batteries, tanks, coils, RDAs, etc. else can be ordered otherwise.
Your smartest move is never ordering batteries from one side of an ocean to the other! Order domestically! Mods without batteries, tanks, coils, RDAs, etc. else can be ordered otherwise.
Depends on the vendor, just ordered 4x Samsung 25R from Gearsbest this week and they ship by air from Switzerland, that and their pricing was much better than FT !
Different part of the globe entirely there. Gearbest is in Europe while FT is in the Asian region. DHL is the main shipper as far as air freight and they have a ban on anything dealing with batteries. A good deal of that has to do with security concerns which is clearly understood. They even have guidelines for shipping by ground as far as ecigs go! http://us.dhlglobalmail.com/media/pdfs/DHLeC-Battery-Transportation-Policy.pdf
wondering how they can ship batteries by air.. declare as non-battery items?
How I found that out was when some what proved to be scam outfit wanted an extra $35 to ship an eGo-C starter kit back in May 2013 before ever seeing the first few box mods. When asking for a refund none ever came of course! Then when going to look at why DHL would even be charging so much which it doesn't! I ran into the restrictions that shipper has.
As far as ordering from Gearbest I have been hearing some complaints about that site lately and simply veered away from it entirely while generally I still prefer domestic US sources to order from when the prices are reasonable as some prices appear to overcharge at times?! An Innokin iTaste VTR 3-15w box mod for example shouldn't be going for $60- at the present time when you can get 100w+ with Temp Control for the same!
As far as ordering from Gearbest I have been hearing some complaints about that site lately and simply veered away from it entirely while generally I still prefer domestic US sources to order from when the prices are reasonable as some prices appear to overcharge at times?! An Innokin iTaste VTR 3-15w box mod for example shouldn't be going for $60- at the present time when you can get 100w+ with Temp Control for the same!
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 ?
They use cargo/freight plane services that have a steel container for battery products.
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