So last night I decided to finally place an order for everything I need for what I want to try and purchase a few things. Figured I would try and get everything from 1 company....HAHA what a joke no one has everything or even close to everything I needed in stock. And some did not even offer half of what I needed. As this is generally normal I guess I still find it to be a rant and a PITA. I understand stock outs happen but seriously?
Ended up having to get stuff from 6 or 7 different d**** places.
Amazon = scale was going to get off ebay through a link someone posted here but they wanted $55 found it on Amazon for $33.....
Amazon shopping experience = Same as always quick, familiar, easy to navigate, very customer oriented should I have an issue. No worries here. Will certainly order from Amazon again lol but who wouldn't?
Packaging Option Direct = ended up buying my Amber round glass bottles from them, I wanted so bad to get them from some of the vendors recommended here but no way I simply could not see paying $1.49-$3 per bottle with child proof droppers when the could be had less than $1 each if purchasing from a company that does bottles......and only bottles.
Packaging Option Direct shopping experience = Clean website, easy to navigate, easy to find what I was looking for, checkout experience was very easy I wasn't navigated away from the site or redirected I like this in a website. They have a checkout as gust option this is awesome I rarely like to create an account when purchasing things online as nearly every time I do I get flooded with garbage email. They also have a premium ssl which I like to see as they have gone through the trouble of having their domain ownership and business verified (which is not easy to do for an EV SSL). Overall great experience will use again.
Pure Vapes = Awesome price on 30ml FA flavors however I found that they did not have a few of the flavors I wanted in 30ml so this was kind of a drag but oh well happens. All I will be likely getting here is 30ml FA flavors for $5.50 on average I would you go anywhere else when purchasing 30ml? Only downside is they do not offer 10ml, however they do offer 3ml. They also do not offer any larger than 30ml this would be nice for certain flavors that get used very often in many many recipes.
Pure Vapes Shopping Experience = Site was easy to navigate, I was not redirected away to another site to complete my purchase I like this a lot. Site has SSL however google warned me that it was outdated and might not be compatible with future versions of chrome while this is fine right now I may come to get aggravated with that in the future. Overall will purchase from them again based on everything so far.
Bull City Vapor = 30ml FA flavors that Pure Vapes did not have, and 120ml FA flavors great price on 120ml only like $18 or something, 30ml was a little more than Pure Vapes which I was not to happy about but oh well what can you do.
Bull City Shopping Experience = Just like the other sites was easy to navigate, prices on 120ml was good, prices on 30ml was high but had no other choice so I guess supply and demand come in here. I can not imagine though that they are paying anymore than Pure Vapes is especially since they are offering larger quantities this would lead me to believe they purchase larger quantities but hey who know. IS it really that big of a deal....NO just if Pure Vapes has it i in stock in 30ml I will get it there instead. What I do not like on this website or any website that does it is when I go to checkout it redirects to a D*** mybigcommerce.com website for secure checkout, this to me is cheap, drives me crazy, charges people who choose to use their "standard $10 option" 1.5% of every transaction on top of payment processing resulting in higher cost to run business for merchant, and higher cost to customer. Also there was not a checkout as guest option. Other than that great experience so far and will purchase again based on everything so far.
Mama J's = 10ml FA Flavors that ecigexpress did not have in stock.
Just like other sites I have used it is clean, simple, easy to navigate. I purchased 10ml FA flavors from them that ecig express did not have in stock....they charge the same amount as ecig express for 10ml FA Flavors which is nice. They also had a few flavors that NO ONE else had in stock. I would've thrown more business to them however I purchased enough from ecig express I got free shipping so I ordered as much as I could from them instead.
What I do not like on this website or any website that does it is when I go to checkout it redirects to a D*** mybigcommerce.com website for secure checkout, this to me is cheap, drives me crazy, charges people who choose to use their "standard $10 option" 1.5% of every transaction on top of payment processing resulting in higher cost to run business for merchant, and higher cost to customer. Also there was not a checkout as guest option. Other than that great experience so far and will purchase again based on everything so far. OH BONUS, woke up this morning (after placing order at 12:30am my time and at 7:30 my time when I woke up already have USPS tracking numbers for my order, THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!)
EcigExpress = 10ml FA flavors, 30ml FA flavors that Pure Vapes did not have in stock, 250ml FA flavors, 250 ml PG (I do not use this a lot at all if any only when mixing for friends who want more of a throat hit), 1l 100mg nic (was about $5 more than I could've got it elsewhere however I had free shipping so ended up being $1.10 cheaper than if I would've got the cheaper bottle).
HUGE selection, easy to navigate, clean design, GREAT deals and sales, found a 10% coupon code = AWESOME as this was not expected and I had a budget to stick to then when I found it I was like sweet free 2 day shipping upgrade and still save a few bucks with the 10% off coupon. What I did not like with this website is that it seems to always be running a little slow on page load speed, adding things to cart, using their search feature, editing cart, etc, etc, everything about this site is slow and that drives me INSANE. However with the deals and selections that they have I most certainly will be purchasing from them again. IF ECIGEXPRESS reads this REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF D**** EMBEDDED JAVA SCRIPT and your page loads will increase significantly. Maybe use a CALL TO ACTION JS instead of having it load on every page every time even if it is not being used!!! Their are other ways to do it, or USE THE GOOGLE JAVA LIBRARIES insead of hosting them local this will help a lot too!!!!
The Flavor Apprentice = I purchased 1 gallon of VG from them, 15ml TFA Flavors I don't use super often but enough to have on hand, and 4oz flavors I use frequently from them. for $6-$8 for 4oz how could you go wrong. I have come to prefer FA flavors to TFA flavors, however TFA does have some flavors you simply can not live without.
I find this site most impossible to navigate, it is a clean design, however they could have better more industry standard category breakdowns. However they do have a search feature and I already no what I am looking for so I simply typed what I wanted and boom there it is no problems quicker than trying to search for it. I will be purchasing from them again for sure.
VP-Wholesale = great prices on batteries, decent prices on Mods, EXCELLENT prices on RDA's and RBA's. It was time to upgrade my gear again so this is where I go a lot of times they are out of stock of something which sucks cause it doesn't tell you till you add it to your cart but oh well what can you. Site loads fast, everything is easy to find. No complaints here at all as far as the shopping experience.
I will update this thread as stuff starts to ship, arrives here, etc, etc. So far Mama J's I have to say has the best customer service as they have already got my tracking numbers to me and it wasn't even 8 hours after placing the order.
Ended up having to get stuff from 6 or 7 different d**** places.
Amazon = scale was going to get off ebay through a link someone posted here but they wanted $55 found it on Amazon for $33.....
Amazon shopping experience = Same as always quick, familiar, easy to navigate, very customer oriented should I have an issue. No worries here. Will certainly order from Amazon again lol but who wouldn't?
Packaging Option Direct = ended up buying my Amber round glass bottles from them, I wanted so bad to get them from some of the vendors recommended here but no way I simply could not see paying $1.49-$3 per bottle with child proof droppers when the could be had less than $1 each if purchasing from a company that does bottles......and only bottles.
Packaging Option Direct shopping experience = Clean website, easy to navigate, easy to find what I was looking for, checkout experience was very easy I wasn't navigated away from the site or redirected I like this in a website. They have a checkout as gust option this is awesome I rarely like to create an account when purchasing things online as nearly every time I do I get flooded with garbage email. They also have a premium ssl which I like to see as they have gone through the trouble of having their domain ownership and business verified (which is not easy to do for an EV SSL). Overall great experience will use again.
Pure Vapes = Awesome price on 30ml FA flavors however I found that they did not have a few of the flavors I wanted in 30ml so this was kind of a drag but oh well happens. All I will be likely getting here is 30ml FA flavors for $5.50 on average I would you go anywhere else when purchasing 30ml? Only downside is they do not offer 10ml, however they do offer 3ml. They also do not offer any larger than 30ml this would be nice for certain flavors that get used very often in many many recipes.
Pure Vapes Shopping Experience = Site was easy to navigate, I was not redirected away to another site to complete my purchase I like this a lot. Site has SSL however google warned me that it was outdated and might not be compatible with future versions of chrome while this is fine right now I may come to get aggravated with that in the future. Overall will purchase from them again based on everything so far.
Bull City Vapor = 30ml FA flavors that Pure Vapes did not have, and 120ml FA flavors great price on 120ml only like $18 or something, 30ml was a little more than Pure Vapes which I was not to happy about but oh well what can you do.
Bull City Shopping Experience = Just like the other sites was easy to navigate, prices on 120ml was good, prices on 30ml was high but had no other choice so I guess supply and demand come in here. I can not imagine though that they are paying anymore than Pure Vapes is especially since they are offering larger quantities this would lead me to believe they purchase larger quantities but hey who know. IS it really that big of a deal....NO just if Pure Vapes has it i in stock in 30ml I will get it there instead. What I do not like on this website or any website that does it is when I go to checkout it redirects to a D*** mybigcommerce.com website for secure checkout, this to me is cheap, drives me crazy, charges people who choose to use their "standard $10 option" 1.5% of every transaction on top of payment processing resulting in higher cost to run business for merchant, and higher cost to customer. Also there was not a checkout as guest option. Other than that great experience so far and will purchase again based on everything so far.
Mama J's = 10ml FA Flavors that ecigexpress did not have in stock.
Just like other sites I have used it is clean, simple, easy to navigate. I purchased 10ml FA flavors from them that ecig express did not have in stock....they charge the same amount as ecig express for 10ml FA Flavors which is nice. They also had a few flavors that NO ONE else had in stock. I would've thrown more business to them however I purchased enough from ecig express I got free shipping so I ordered as much as I could from them instead.
What I do not like on this website or any website that does it is when I go to checkout it redirects to a D*** mybigcommerce.com website for secure checkout, this to me is cheap, drives me crazy, charges people who choose to use their "standard $10 option" 1.5% of every transaction on top of payment processing resulting in higher cost to run business for merchant, and higher cost to customer. Also there was not a checkout as guest option. Other than that great experience so far and will purchase again based on everything so far. OH BONUS, woke up this morning (after placing order at 12:30am my time and at 7:30 my time when I woke up already have USPS tracking numbers for my order, THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!)
EcigExpress = 10ml FA flavors, 30ml FA flavors that Pure Vapes did not have in stock, 250ml FA flavors, 250 ml PG (I do not use this a lot at all if any only when mixing for friends who want more of a throat hit), 1l 100mg nic (was about $5 more than I could've got it elsewhere however I had free shipping so ended up being $1.10 cheaper than if I would've got the cheaper bottle).
HUGE selection, easy to navigate, clean design, GREAT deals and sales, found a 10% coupon code = AWESOME as this was not expected and I had a budget to stick to then when I found it I was like sweet free 2 day shipping upgrade and still save a few bucks with the 10% off coupon. What I did not like with this website is that it seems to always be running a little slow on page load speed, adding things to cart, using their search feature, editing cart, etc, etc, everything about this site is slow and that drives me INSANE. However with the deals and selections that they have I most certainly will be purchasing from them again. IF ECIGEXPRESS reads this REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF D**** EMBEDDED JAVA SCRIPT and your page loads will increase significantly. Maybe use a CALL TO ACTION JS instead of having it load on every page every time even if it is not being used!!! Their are other ways to do it, or USE THE GOOGLE JAVA LIBRARIES insead of hosting them local this will help a lot too!!!!
The Flavor Apprentice = I purchased 1 gallon of VG from them, 15ml TFA Flavors I don't use super often but enough to have on hand, and 4oz flavors I use frequently from them. for $6-$8 for 4oz how could you go wrong. I have come to prefer FA flavors to TFA flavors, however TFA does have some flavors you simply can not live without.
I find this site most impossible to navigate, it is a clean design, however they could have better more industry standard category breakdowns. However they do have a search feature and I already no what I am looking for so I simply typed what I wanted and boom there it is no problems quicker than trying to search for it. I will be purchasing from them again for sure.
VP-Wholesale = great prices on batteries, decent prices on Mods, EXCELLENT prices on RDA's and RBA's. It was time to upgrade my gear again so this is where I go a lot of times they are out of stock of something which sucks cause it doesn't tell you till you add it to your cart but oh well what can you. Site loads fast, everything is easy to find. No complaints here at all as far as the shopping experience.
I will update this thread as stuff starts to ship, arrives here, etc, etc. So far Mama J's I have to say has the best customer service as they have already got my tracking numbers to me and it wasn't even 8 hours after placing the order.
