Another entertaining show and belated happy birtday!
Thanks for the Rok Star update….if you ever want to get rid of your working unit please sell it to me. I need to keep unscrewing the atty from my chambers and then reattach them after a few draws otherwise wicking problems arise everytime. I’m putting it down to expeience and bad luck.
Elite ‘cigalikes’…great issue. Of course the product is crap, and the sales people are just that – sales people who stick to the company line, but, as others have noted, it can get you onto better performing devices once you realise that you’ve been ripped off. You can’t account for those who will be put off vaping. After I started using the ego-T, about ten others in my network got one too when they saw mine. After a month or two they went back to analogs because they couldn’t be bothered to do simple things like learn how to maintain their units, keeping the connections clean from gunk build up etc. So they deserve to go back to analogs as far as I’m concerned.
Point about mainstreaming is interesting. I think it will depend on how vaping is marketed at different demographic groups. If it becomes more than an underground ‘alernative to smoking’ it will be interesting to see how different ‘vaper-types’ are identified and targeted. E.g. the clueless novice that uses cigalikes, the sporty, style-over-substance trendy that goes for tanks, the nerdy purist who drips, the unself-conscious beardy who thinks nothing of sticking a garage tool in their gob…just being playful, of course, but you get my drift. Vaping will have properly arrived when the stereotypes associated with it become as widely recognised as, say car owner stereotypes.
What a great post! I agree with pretty much every word of that
I think e-cigs are definitely moving towards the mainstream now, and predict that the next 12 months will be very interesting indeed. I just hope that they are interesting in a good way, both for the mass market and the “enthusiasts”!
Another entertaining show and belated happy birtday!
Thanks for the Rok Star update….if you ever want to get rid of your working unit please sell it to me. I need to keep unscrewing the atty from my chambers and then reattach them after a few draws otherwise wicking problems arise everytime. I’m putting it down to expeience and bad luck.
Elite ‘cigalikes’…great issue. Of course the product is crap, and the sales people are just that – sales people who stick to the company line, but, as others have noted, it can get you onto better performing devices once you realise that you’ve been ripped off. You can’t account for those who will be put off vaping. After I started using the ego-T, about ten others in my network got one too when they saw mine. After a month or two they went back to analogs because they couldn’t be bothered to do simple things like learn how to maintain their units, keeping the connections clean from gunk build up etc. So they deserve to go back to analogs as far as I’m concerned.
Point about mainstreaming is interesting. I think it will depend on how vaping is marketed at different demographic groups. If it becomes more than an underground ‘alernative to smoking’ it will be interesting to see how different ‘vaper-types’ are identified and targeted. E.g. the clueless novice that uses cigalikes, the sporty, style-over-substance trendy that goes for tanks, the nerdy purist who drips, the unself-conscious beardy who thinks nothing of sticking a garage tool in their gob…just being playful, of course, but you get my drift. Vaping will have properly arrived when the stereotypes associated with it become as widely recognised as, say car owner stereotypes.
What a great post! I agree with pretty much every word of that
I think e-cigs are definitely moving towards the mainstream now, and predict that the next 12 months will be very interesting indeed. I just hope that they are interesting in a good way, both for the mass market and the “enthusiasts”!