So I'm right there with ya'll on the "Haven't got a clue" New vape shops ...we have over 35 in okc now (shock)
I had only been to Doc's < super nice guy, totally ready to listen to any help we were willing to offer
But I have now stopped at 3 ...oh MY ...I have bit my tongue over & over ....
I heard One owner told tell a customer that "drip shields" have NO purpose other than changing the look of your carto....
I had one clerk tell me that 100% VG juice was impossible to achieve because NIC would not mix with the VG ...so they could only get PG base so all juice had to be 50/50 .... I called him on it & the owner popped up from around the back & he disappeared...she told me that she didn't like high vg juices, because it made too many people sick & she wouldn't sell it .
I have a NEW ONE that just opened behind my house ...when the signs first went up, I checked their web site (& it wasn't built yet) So I called the number ...& asked if they would be hiring etc...& just chit chatted etc, & the guy said NO he had never smoked so wasn't a vaper ,but one of his partners was
and he had just started vaping SO they thought it would be a good time to jump in the market ...
they have been open a month or so now ...I stopped in yesterday. Clean NEW pretty shop, nice cases ...popular stuff 3x the online prices ...1st clerk knew nothing he was just filling in & the other kid said he was the only Paid employee @ the moment cuz his dad was busy at home w/sick kid ...
I asked for a 5ml of strawberry. So he pulled out an empty bottle & filled about 3/4 of the bottle from a BIG bottle from under counter Then filled the rest of the bottle from a different bottle ...so I asked what he just did & he said the first one was 36 strawberry filled to the "24 mark" & then topped off with 0nic strawberry ...that made it 24 mg ....then he stuck a 24mg strawberry sticker around bottle ....so of course the first thing I did when I got back home was to take label off to check for the "24mark" ...there was NO MARK he was totally winging it
The Juice is pretty tasty & like $4.11 after tax so not bad , but not very accurate mg wise
so yeah ...I'm not very impressed yet with the ones I have stopped in on...
& there was this lovely report tonight on the news ....
E-cigarette explodes and sparks small fire | KFOR.com
I don't even wanna go visit the others ....I'm just sure they would just infuriate me further....
And note to rds....if we put the names of the stores on ECF , the stores LOVE that cuz it is free advertising & makes them google searchable ...another local shop, that I was talking to the owner one day , told me she had already been banned from ECF but it was OK & totally worth it cuz,it made her shop name searchable on google ...ecf rarely removes the post