Mod hat off, member hat on.
You know what I find really strange through, (and I'm just saying this as a conversation point and nothing more) I can't for the life of me understand why Cloud9 vaping have taken their post down and state they are taking legal advice.
Surely, surely any vendor, particularly one with the experience Cloud9 has would know how explosive news like this would be in the vaping world and anticipate that 5P would take legal action?
If it was me in that scenario, I would have checked and rechecked my findings, had the wording thoroughly checked out legally, and got my ducks in a row, especially if I knew that I was going up against a major player with such deep pockets. If I couldn't afford to do this, then I would have done exactly what they did initially and refuse to stock their products.
I can only conclude that cloud9 were doing this from the right place in their hearts and informing vapers of the danger they
think they've found. Unfortunately, by posting something up and then taking it down again on has simply created confusion. It also probably disengaged a lot of vapers on the subject of what's in their liquids, cos feck it now nobody trusts anyones results anyway.
I worry that this will have unintended consequences, and it's the vendors that are doing it right by investing in good equipment and processes that will get the shitty end of the stick when all this settles. Their investment may not provide some vapers with the reassurance they are looking for anymore, wiping out any market incentive to raise standards generally and gives band wagoners another foot in the door.
I also hope I'm completely wrong and I'm just in a bad mood.