An honest prosmoke review

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Escapereality

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If you look around the internet, a good chunk of the reviews you find will be from someone who has an investment or interest in the company. At least in my experience, prior to purchasing the prosmoke as my first ecig it seemed the reviews were skewed in prosmokes favor. I'm here to offer an honest review.

I happened to order the 'Prosmoke delux starter kit' for 104.99.
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QTY
2Long-life lithium "smart" batteries
1Atomizer
1Portable Charging Case
4Flavored Cartridge Pack in the nicotine level and flavor of your choice! Each of the 4 packages includes 5 individual cartridges is equivalent of up to 30 packs of regular cigarettes!
1U.S. Wall Charger
1USB Charger
1E-Cigarette Box
1User Manual


When my prosmoke finally arrived in the mail, I was impressed by the packaging. Very professional, very clean and tidy packaging. It all came in this nice box, with prosmoke branded all over it. The charging case was a very nice addition and I would say it was the best thing about this item.

I used this little guy for about a week, and was thoroughly impressed. Mainly because it was my first eCigarrette and I was just amazed. However I quickly burned through all of my cartridges. They are advertised to be the equivilent to a pack of cigarettes, but I would burn through 2-3 easily in a day. At the time I was a <1 PAD smoker, so that didn't quite add up.

About 1.5 weeks into my prosmoke relationship, I wasn't getting near the amount of vapor production as when I first got it. I chalked it up to be a bad atomizer. I thought these things were supposed to last longer than that. None-the-less I went ahead and purchased 2 more atomizers. I recieved them in the mail, and 1 was a dud. I opened a ticket with prosmoke and they sent me another atty.

These next two attys didn't even last as long as the previous. Maybe a week each. I was constantly having to fiddle with the cartridge or clean the atomizer. It was a hassle just owning the thing. It was convenient because it was small and had a nice little pack/charger, but the damn thing never worked when I wanted it to.

The battery seemed to over heat very easily. 1-2 drags was all it took to make one of the batteries feel significantly warm, even hot. I was not a fan of this.

For me, the prosmoke was almost the end of my vaping career. I assumed since I spent top dollar for an intro starter kit, that I had gotten the best. I was WRONG. All of these false/paid reviews are ruining vaping for tons of people. Those people include my mother and sister who also purchased a prosmoke. Their experience was the same, it was great for 1-2 weeks and that was about it. I went back to analogs for about 3-4 months, and saw that a friend of mine was selling smoke juice. I sent him some questions and he let me know not all e-cigs suck. He pointed me in the direction of an eGo-T which I purchased for a fraction of the cost of the prosmoke. That will be my next review, and let me say it will a much more positive write up than this one.
 

ndnshift

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unfortunately this is the experience of most people that try vaping... in my various circles with smokers, probably close to 50% have purchased some kind of ecig (starter kit, disposable, etc...), got frustrated, and never picked it up again. the sad reality is that when people ask where you got "that" and you say online, very few will order anything. if they sold kr808d1s or eGos at brick and mortar shops everywhere, people would stick with it. i think volt or bloog need to partner with 7-11 instead of them selling those crappy $20 ones they currently carry :)
 

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For me, the prosmoke was almost the end of my vaping career. I assumed since I spent top dollar for an intro starter kit, that I had gotten the best. I was WRONG. All of these false/paid reviews are ruining vaping for tons of people....

PRECISELY my experience, thanks EscapeReality. Unfortunately, I suspect that by the time a new vaper finds this forum, they will have already wasted a lot of cash on devices that won't serve them long-term. Buyer Beware.

On a positive note - the tobacco flavors they sell are better than most disposables. :2c:

BCNU
 

Yothar

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I continually come across reviews that sound so good to someone looking to try e-cigs, however, it's often the same retailers, and the same over-priced products that keep getting the good reviews. The old quote "you only get what you pay for..." doesn't ring true when it comes to e-cigs and it quickly becomes very confusing/frustrating to the uninitiated.

My first kit cost me around $90; it was a highly recommended analog look-alike kit, and although it performed well enough, I felt as though I had been ripped off, once I realized how cheap it should have been.

My latest purchase (a double Ego-FP 1300mAh kit with EGO-F1 Atomizers for $ 29.31 incl. delivery ) is coming direct from China.... I've seen the exact same kits going for double that on sites that come so highly recommended.

And as for all the warnings I see about the perils of buying online from China, they are about as accurate as the so-called reviews I keep seeing.... lacking in real substance. I now buy all my gear from China, and that includes many starter kits for my curious friends and workmates... @ $20 a kit (2 ecigs, 10 cartridges, 3 chargers and 3 x 10ml e-liquid, postage incl. ), they are cheap enough for even the slighly skeptical to try, and so far, not one complaint from anyone.

I don't bother with reviews any more, I think they are too often biased, and would be better described as paid advertisements.

Thus endeth my rant. :blush:
Cheers
 

Done Deal DR

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I started with a Prosmoke and it was brutal. I really disliked the flavor of the factory carts, and the battery would only last for a couple minutes before weak hits. The worst thing about it was that juice was virtually constantly leaking in my mouth, enough that it would make me feel borderline sick. I started refilling the carts myself which made the taste and hit satisfactory but still had a ton of leaking and the carts didn't last long enough. All in all it was way too much fiddling and not enough vaping for me, the only thing it had going for it was being so small.

After only a few days I said screw this and ordered a couple ProVaris and haven't looked back. I can fill a tank and not mess with it again for a weak, only swapping the 18490 battery 2-3 times in that span. Also with many of my juices I can get a months worth for nearly the same cost as 1 pack of their carts that would only last a couple days. The cartomizers are like 1/15th the cost of their attyz and last 3 times longer. I decided I'd rather get beat up on whatever Prosmoke will charge me for the carts and I returned it under the 30 day guarantee. Having used it for about a week I can definitely say the online reviews are nothing but BS. It absolutely is paid or done by employees of Prosmoke as nobody could possibly talk the way the reviews do about it in an honest manner.

To anybody that is brand new, please reconsider going with a cig sized device. They don't hold enough juice nor battery to be efficient and that will not change no matter how much money you spend. It should also be noted that the Prosmoke is nothing but a re branded Chinese m40x device that shouldn't cost more than $30ish bucks tops. You certainly don't have to get a ProVari but get something that has more battery and a better juice delivery system. I wish my first device would have been an eGo, it would have been a fraction of the price and much more capable - but I'm glad the Prosmoke forced me to go for the gusto with the ProVaris.
 
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