I've posted here at ECF about experiences I've had w/ local B&Ms. Agree the ones I have visited have been way over priced. Even back in VA where I grew up, a B&M was over priced. I think a lot of B&Ms exist to draw in new vapers and to rake a bit of profit. They seem keen to become
The Next Big Thang and forget what they really ought to be, a nice friendly, affordable and professional local shop for everyone.
Don't misunderstand my negativity toward over pricing. I understand people have to eat, live too. What I have trouble understanding is when those
making a living forget everyone else is attempting the same and we're all in the pinch, become highway robbers. One example real quick off the top of my noggin, a shop here charges something like $30 for a simple 900mAh eGo type battery. Two minutes on the web I can find the exact same battery shipping and all in for under $15 or less. This even cuts the cost of having to get someone drive me to the shop. Sure the delivery costs.
I would love to buy vape stuff locally. I am making a lot of tentative life choices and changes in the next while. Going local is one big aspect of those changes. Beans will be another aspect. No one will bother me during the big old Pocy Lips. I will grow beans for them to feed them, if they remain nice to me. They start messing with me, I can withhold food, withhold knowledge, skills. Of course, I'm kind of doubting we'll be near enough to civilization be overran by people. Me and wife are a tad anti-social, love people but are not people, persons.
With local shops being rip off shops, I won't buy vape stuff locally. That not only twinges me with sadness, it can effect others locally. It is less of my consumer money for our locality. Less jobs for our local area. The shops being rip off shops, is beyond the scope of
my control, all I can do is choose the more feasible money wise for our situation. In that in some way i do control the local shops a bit. I don't shop there ergo they employ fewer, have less gear on stock and so on.
catch 22s of life,
if you do,
if you don't.
We really need to kick this
dead horse called money out of everyone's way.
NB: Apologies for some harsh speaking. At times though truth and life are both harsh. We cannot compare and say "no fair", it might in fact be fair to someone in a starving area that I stubbed my toe while fixing waffles for breakfast. None of us truly can know. None of us ever get a guarantee of having it all, of not having adversities. So, sometimes truth lies in harsh speaking. If my words, opinions offend you, please ignore me and don't read the words. I have a right to speak just as you've a right to not listen. Yes, I know it goes both ways, too.
Thanks for reading this, and by the way, welcome to life.
and a desire to just walk on away.
