Home brew & selling

[HEISENBERG88]

I agree with the old hippy guy imagine what's in the blag ciggies people used to buy!

 

[ianleeds]

You can see it is only a small step from making juice for yourself and selling the odd bottle to workmates and family, to opening up a sellers Facebook page or selling at your local car boot. ( remember when your local car boot was awash with 'Arthur Daley's' selling rip-off CD's and DVD's ? )
The profits are definitely there, a few months dedicated work will pay your gas bill or go towards your much deserved holiday.
Folk are seeing their spending power fall as incomes remain static and prices rise. So extra income for many is not greed, but a necessity.
So, a side income of selling homebrew juice must be very tempting for many. Every council estate across the land has at least one guy selling dodgy tobacco.
....and the chances of getting caught ? Well slim I would say.
There are not enough resources to catch every 'criminal' as it is and there are far bigger fish to fry.
The losers ? Well that will be your small B&M stores who will be unable to compete, and the small scale kosha internet sellers.
If you were offered a 100ml bottle of your favourite juice for say £10, with the knowledge it is homebrew.......would you turn it down ?

 

[scrumpox]

The losers ? Well that will be your small B&M stores who will be unable to compete, and the small scale kosha internet sellers.

I agree with everything you say except this statement. I don't think the local B&Ms are necessarily losing out, or should be regarded as victims.

If they had gone out proactively to create their market by converting smokers only to see that market taken away, that would be a fair point. Vaping however is a social phenomenon and their market comes mostly to them, as opportunists. I could say that the friends that I sell to only vape because I persuaded them to stop smoking, so I created my little black market and I'm not stealing business or profits from anyone.

I'm not overly protective or concerned about it, they're welcome to buy juice wherever they want. All vapers know the cost of a learning curve when it comes to trying out juice, that's where social networks can help a lot and not everyone wants to do that online or in a commercial environment. The successful B&Ms will be the ones who understand that.

 

[Greebo]

Lime pickle ... I found a jar of that at the back of a cupboard that was 11 years old and still had the raffle ticket number attached ... and it was cracking!

I'm surprised your cupboard was still there. Other half loves the evil stuff & every jar that we've had has eaten away at the shelf when he hasn't wiped the jar properly. God knows what it does to your insides.

 

[scrumpox]

I'm surprised your cupboard was still there. Other half loves the evil stuff & every jar that we've had has eaten away at the shelf when he hasn't wiped the jar properly. God knows what it does to your insides.

Eats your shelves ... holy shit! What brand is that? I feel like I might be missing out ...

 

[Greebo]

Eats your shelves ... holy shit! What brand is that? I feel like I might be missing out ...

If they ever do another remake of The Blob they could just replace it with lime pickle.