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I went to my first vape shop in November last year, it was pretty busy in there, but I must say I've never felt so uncomfortable.
I'd bought a pen type starter kit online, and went to the shop to get a few different juices to try out and see what flavours I liked.
The guy behind the counter made me feel really stupid. He kept telling me I should NEVER buy anything like this online, always buy it from a shop. He then went on to advise me that my starter kit was pointless I wasn't going to get anything out of it so I should buy something bigger with more power. I told him that I'd stick with my pen for now and I was just sniggered at. I felt ridiculous, so obviously I never went back but it put me off vape shops altogether. I did eventually pluck up the courage to go to a different vape shop and the guy in there is great, always seems to remember what types of flavours I like and always recommends different juices that he thinks I might like. I like to go back there at least every two weeks.
 
I went to my first vape shop in November last year, it was pretty busy in there, but I must say I've never felt so uncomfortable.
I'd bought a pen type starter kit online, and went to the shop to get a few different juices to try out and see what flavours I liked.
The guy behind the counter made me feel really stupid. He kept telling me I should NEVER buy anything like this online, always buy it from a shop. He then went on to advise me that my starter kit was pointless I wasn't going to get anything out of it so I should buy something bigger with more power. I told him that I'd stick with my pen for now and I was just sniggered at. I felt ridiculous, so obviously I never went back but it put me off vape shops altogether. I did eventually pluck up the courage to go to a different vape shop and the guy in there is great, always seems to remember what types of flavours I like and always recommends different juices that he thinks I might like. I like to go back there at least every two weeks.
Couple of months reading these boards and you'll have learnt more than most vape shop employees know so you'll feel more than comfortable entering any of them going forward.
 
Just to say a big thanks to @Huggett for letting me sit in Steam Vape today for 5 hours talking his ear off.

Long as Vape Shops like Steam Vape exist and cater to the vape community, we will always have good B&Ms.
 
Dont really bother with b&ms anymore unless theres a vape meet going on. 95% of the time they dont sell the type of stuff i use/buy, are fucking clueless and feed you misinformation or try and sell you some shit you dont want, easier just to do it online.
 
I don't do b&m's anymore everything is so much cheaper online, the last time I went by a local b&m it was full of tracky wearing baseball cap chavs, gave it a miss
 
Just to say a big thanks to @Huggett for letting me sit in Steam Vape today for 5 hours talking his ear off.

Long as Vape Shops like Steam Vape exist and cater to the vape community, we will always have good B&Ms.

Anytime dude, I’ll keep my eyes out for a cheap Soul S ;)
 
To be honest I avoid vape shops in case they're full of patronising vape-bros. They probably *aren't* full of the worst aspects of vape culture but it still puts me off. That and the few times I went into one they've indeed been patronising as all hell.
 
Couple of months reading these boards and you'll have learnt more than most vape shop employees know so you'll feel more than comfortable entering any of them going forward.
this is spot on. I think back to my first stages of vaping and using one of the local B&M's, i no longer use them anymore due to the flat capped Smok zombie mocking using an RDA so early on when i started vaping. When i think back he knew about literally Cool Fire IV's, Aspire K1's & Nautilis 2's, Smok, Smok and Smok.

The amount of information ive learned on here is quite incredible, got set up with my first RDA's on here, coil building, DIY Juice, RTA's.... none of the info would have been offered to me had i kept using that particular B&M. I found the other local one which is the complete opposite of that and love going in.

Even now months down the line i think of the conversation with that wee fanny and i want to drive down and grap him with his neck beard and beat him with his TF6567655 Big Baby Wee Baby Mini Big Smoke :gunban::guns::gunban::3dmad:
 
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