^^^THIS^^^
Yeah me too. I look to see a close up of the products. The actual reviews are BS. Every once in awhile I'll see someone new that actually buys their stuff and will give an unbiased review.
I hear you and Im an Aussie. I grew up in an area where there was a lot of that type, they were refered to as Yobbos, then Bogans, dont care who's around them, old people, mums with kids the rubbish just free flows at full blast. No offence taken at all mate I can't bear it myself. A spokes person too for Vaping here from South Aus. Imagine the ones from anti vaping and the gov checking his site out. Guess which state got hit with vape bans?
You always did a great job on your written reviews and would answer any questions I had on a products you were reviewing .
Let's get this on the table. How does it make sense to tell somebody not to build this low on a mech unless you really know what you're doing? As if the battery knows that you're an experienced user and will therefore behave better at .08 than if you were a mech noob.
yes Yes YES! That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'm glad someone got it. Another thing that always makes me cringe is when they put a new build in an RDA then sit there and pulse it on a mech mod without checking it on a meter or atleast a regulated mod first. You can just here some noob saying "It's ok. That's how SO AND SO does it."
To be fair here, I can see somebody who's been building their own coils for years and is working with mods and RDAs that they've had forever and know like the back of their hand doing this for themselves. They know what the coils are and what they're going to do in this equipment with these batteries. Experience would make a difference in this scenario.
Agreed. If I said I've never done it that would be a lie. But I've never done it on a new RDA with coils someone else built. And I've never done it on camera in front of thousands of people. I'm just saying don't lecture people then make a video showing that you don't follow your own advice.
Haha! Or you have reviewers that everything they have hits hard. I know I use basically the same kinds of RDAs and mech mods. I use the same coils in everything. I use 20S, 2070C or 30T batteries. If I have something that doesn't hit hard like I like I fix it or shelve it.All I know is when I hear a reviewer say something hits hard and they don’t prove it, they are shit.
Yeah you vape .09 ( or lower) on a mech... that alone will make you feel it’s hitting hard... but it’s all anecdotal.
Sure, any device combo can vape great, no denying that... but when I see reviewers and individuals say something hits hard, and I ask about voltage, the reply is always the same... “ hits hard to me” or “trust me, it hits hard”
Yeah you can fuck off with that nonsense
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You know back in the day, before the Chinese flooded the market with shit, and there were alot of modders around the world...the modders didn't have enough money to really bribe the reviewers with....a reviewer might get a free mod or atty, but the modders didn't have much money....since the Chinese corporations stole all the modders designs and started cloning them the modders were driven out of bussiness....and there is less competition for the vaper dollar...now the chinese corporations have the money and motive to bribe a reviewer...or as they call it now"collaberate" on releasing the reviewers own design..There are some honest reviewers but they mostly review high end gear.
Mike Vapes the sellout comes to mind. Can't stand that asshole. He's the biggest sellout and phony on youtube. Then you have idiots like AmbitionZ that can't even correctly pronounce the name of an RDA he supposedly designed correctly.
I'm an engineer, and if I designed anything, it would be for me personal use and only my personal use. Why? Because I don't make things easy for someone to pick up and use.
On you tube?
Hi Rhianne. Yup, we're both doing well. Hope the same for you and your's.
The other thing is this forum consists of more than a few enablers , and I'm trying Real Hard, this time, not to turn vaping into a hobby.
As it should.
I almost wrote a whole post just on that exact topic earlier.
Just making sure you know that I was not disparaging engineers. We need them.
I was actually referring to manufacturers there.
Absolutely this. When enough money is involved it changes everything.
I feel almost guilty sometimes when watching a reviewer who has been in this game WAAAAY longer than I have, but I just cannot go along with what they're saying.
I've done a few as well; but like you, just for fun.
Yeah I know. I'm not worried about what people think or say about my career choice either. I take pride in my decision to learn and make things that seem impossible... Possible.I almost wrote a whole post just on that exact topic earlier.
Man I drop back in this thread and there's like 10 things being talked about that I want to respond to.
Just making sure you know that I was not disparaging engineers. We need them.
I was actually referring to manufacturers there.
Absolutely this. When enough money is involved it changes everything.
I feel almost guilty sometimes when watching a reviewer who has been in this game WAAAAY longer than I have, but I just cannot go along with what they're saying.
When I first started a couple years ago reviews were super helpful because I knew literally nothing. In that sense, youtube reviews in general helped me get a foundation in vocabulary and an overall feel for what equipment did what.
I hate to sound like a cocky know it all, but somewhere along the way I came to realize that some of these guys don't know nearly what I once thought they did. I know how this may sound, but I think some of them gained credibility just by being in the public eye long enough. Notoriety = expertise in the minds of the average non tech person. It's human nature.
Sometimes it's obvious that some of them are woefully unfamiliar with the equipment they're reviewing. They'll be fumbling through the menus on a regulated mod for instance and I'm thinking to myself: "Dude. I've had this device for an hour and I know how it works better than you do."
It's also become obvious that some of them, who do have genuine expertise, clearly must know better than what they're saying sometimes too. But... the money thing.
All that said, I love vape reviews and watch em all the time
I try to collect as much stuff as I possibly can.You know what, you’d be a decent reviewer! Right now, with lockdowns and bans, I’m sticking with stuff I know I like.
Okay, I’ve bought rebuidables, but not because I want to use them right away. I want to be as FDA proof (as someone called it) as I can be. Just in case.
You’ve got some really cool setups, though.
I almost wrote a whole post just on that exact topic earlier.
Man I drop back in this thread and there's like 10 things being talked about that I want to respond to.
Just making sure you know that I was not disparaging engineers. We need them.
I was actually referring to manufacturers there.
Absolutely this. When enough money is involved it changes everything.
I feel almost guilty sometimes when watching a reviewer who has been in this game WAAAAY longer than I have, but I just cannot go along with what they're saying.
When I first started a couple years ago reviews were super helpful because I knew literally nothing. In that sense, youtube reviews in general helped me get a foundation in vocabulary and an overall feel for what equipment did what.
I hate to sound like a cocky know it all, but somewhere along the way I came to realize that some of these guys don't know nearly what I once thought they did. I know how this may sound, but I think some of them gained credibility just by being in the public eye long enough. Notoriety = expertise in the minds of the average non tech person. It's human nature.
Sometimes it's obvious that some of them are woefully unfamiliar with the equipment they're reviewing. They'll be fumbling through the menus on a regulated mod for instance and I'm thinking to myself: "Dude. I've had this device for an hour and I know how it works better than you do."
It's also become obvious that some of them, who do have genuine expertise, clearly must know better than what they're saying sometimes too. But... the money thing.
All that said, I love vape reviews and watch em all the time
I have a friend that did the same thing.
Yeah similar here. I do some for Health Cabin. Did a number of them, reviews, elsewhere but left and wont return there. I didn't belt them out and knocked back more than I did as I had no interest in going over something that seemed to offer little or doing them for a company that to me had questionable ethical standards. These days with covid, things getting here are super slow so I will be lucky to do a few a year.
those are reviewers who a most like got several of the device for free so they have one to open and use for a month and one pretty one for the camera but for me i trust the older style disclaimer and comments but these days i watch for close ups and thats it.Yep, reviewers who pull out a sealed box and start pulling off the plastic...like please give me a break!! You’re going to review something you’ve had for 3 seconds??
When I decided to vape again over a year ago, I was watching YT reviews. And after a month or so, I realized most of these people really didn’t know more than me. Okay, I’d vaped for a while 6 years ago. But things had changed a lot. Still, I started thinking more critically about how and what I liked to vape.
The only guy I can watch about vaping now is Legion Vapes. Steve is a cool guy and he’s not making all kinds of money reviewing stuff. And he actually uses the gear he reviews. But I really don’t need reviewers now. I can check out threads here and see what people are rocking. And ask them, if I need to.
Daniel's usually pretty good for that. I've found his way to be at least close to the way I wind up doing it most of the time. He has a pretty good head for wicking and gives little measurement tips for length that are usually helpful too. In the beginning he helped me ALOT. He's one of the guys who does have real tech skills and significant vaping knowledge. He doesn't directly address computer stuff most of the time, but I can tell by the way he talks, reading between the lines, that he has serious computer skills too.