Diet Pepsi DOESN'T have less ingredients; just different ingredients. McDonalds also don't charge more if you want extra pickles or ketchup, juice vendors do if you want higher nic. Yet at least two have come on here to say the price of nic is minuscule. If true, why do some charge 2-6 dollars more for higher nic?
Businesses have to take into consideration that as vaping becomes more mainstream, practices such as charging $7 or more for shipping only to send a package first class with $1.39 postage showing on the envelope, charging the same for 0 nic, or more for extra nic., will only help drive customers away.
I placed a first time order from a highly praised vendor on ECF. During the course of discussion, it came out that I worked for the institution he was railing against. My two juices I ordered from him are too weak to taste. The weakest of any I've ever ordered from anywhere. I KNOW from the reviews that's not normal for his juices. Wonder why my juices were made soo weak?
In the end, consumer satisfaction will determine who will become mega vendors and who will falter. More people are deciding to DIY everyday. I could consider it a coincidence if just one of my juices were too weak to get ANY taste from, but when both are AND the bottles are labeled with my initials....
Okay, sorry, I should have used Caffeine Free Pepsi as the example and not Diet Pepsi. Is that better? Do you write to Pepsi and argue with them that it should be cheaper?
Just because some vendors do something one way while others do it another doesn't mean one is the right way any more than the other one is.
I do understand your argument but in realistic terms your argument is only valid against those specific vendors who charge more for higher nic levels but don't charge less for zero nic. And even in that case it is still the vendors prerogative as to how they decide to do their pricing just as it's yours to choose whether or not to buy from them.
If a vendor charges the same price per bottle across the board regardless of whether it has 0, 5, 10, 20, or 30 mg of nic in it then basically the assumption would be that they priced it in a way that makes it so everyone pays the same price for the ease of both themselves and the customer. Do you realize how much of a pain it would be to have to readjust prices and have every single level of nicotine be a different price? And if they did that do you realize there would be even more people arguing that they shouldn't have to pay more just because they get a drop more nicotine than someone else?
As I said, I understand your point but it is only a valid point when talking about a specific sub-set of vendors. To try and simplify it to where it basically implies that every vendor who doesn't give a discount for 0 nic is ripping people off is just off point.
As for the other part of the quoted post... I really don't know what to tell you. Is it possible the vendor sabotaged your liquids because they have a different outlook than you on a certain topic? Sure, without a doubt it is a possibility, since all of the vendors are people too and people are prone to do foolish things.
However the likelihood of it is harder to judge since there are so many factors that could have contributed to the "lack of flavor" other than just sabotage. The fact that it was a first time order really makes it impossible to tell. If you had tried those liquids before and gotten plenty of flavor and then this was a reorder after that conversation then that would help it lean more toward sabotage being a reasonable assumption. However since it was a first time order there is no real way of knowing short of having someone else order you the exact same liquids without the vendor knowing they are for you and then seeing if there is a difference. The fact that the vendor is "popular" and people say it has plenty of flavor doesn't mean that flavor is equal to what it takes to satisfy you in particular. Everyones tastes are different.
Sorry, but between that and the couple of comments where you mention vendors "claim" this or that just makes it seem like you just want something or other to argue over, regardless of the validity of the specific discussion at hand.
As for the argument that a "popular" vendor does this or that.. sorry but just because someone is "popular" doesn't mean they do the right thing or that you can believe 100% in everything they "claim" to do.
I can't keep count of how many sites I was about to give a try until I got to their shipping fees...
