Chris K
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Just got back from the Vape Expo at the NEC.
I’ve been to Expos previously, not in the last few years for obvious reasons but this certainly wasn’t my first. This years Expo though was, by far, the worst for lack of vendors and the smallest crowd I’d ever seen.
I saw a lot of people saying they weren’t going as they suspected it would be wall to wall disposables…. They weren’t wrong! I’d say at least 40% of the stands were purely disposable sellers and that 90% had some sort of disposable on their stand. Actually found myself getting a tad annoyed and @LDotKDot telling me to be nice to all the sales staff approaching me trying to push me to their disposable shite stand. I ended up simplify saying I do not touch disposables and walking away.
On the drive home Lizzie said to me “Why are they selling disposables at what is a usually a more vape hobbyist event?”…. I wonder the same myself. I hear a lot from people pushing these devices “Oh they are great for people getting off the cigs and a good gateway to proper Vaping”…. Well, as today showed, they clearly don’t believe their own bollocks. Walking around I saw a vast amount of people using different devices from higher end setups to pod systems. What I didn’t see was anyone, away from a stand, using a disposable.
We wanted to buy a number of devices for the website today. If I’d have wanted disposables (I’d rather chop a testicle off first) I’d have come home with thousands of the buggers, but I wanted proper devices. So what devices did we get for the site? Nothing, nada, zip. I asked numerous wholesalers, manufacturers etc but all the stock they brought was disposables, their actual devices were “For show only”.
So will I be going in October? Yes. I won’t be bothering visiting stands though, I’ll do what was the most enjoyable part of today and made the drive worth while, I’ll be at the bar area chatting to fellow Vapers and friends.
I didn’t know whether I’d bother posting a little opinion piece I wrote on disposables on the site, didnt know if I could be arsed with potential issues etc. After today though, I made it live on the drive home. I tried to be diplomatic but I did write it a few weeks ago…
https://legioxvape.com/blogs/news/disposables-thoughts-and-facts
I’ve just seen a video by @vapesmarter and I’m happy to see he had a lot of the same thoughts myself and Lizzie did.
I’ve been to Expos previously, not in the last few years for obvious reasons but this certainly wasn’t my first. This years Expo though was, by far, the worst for lack of vendors and the smallest crowd I’d ever seen.
I saw a lot of people saying they weren’t going as they suspected it would be wall to wall disposables…. They weren’t wrong! I’d say at least 40% of the stands were purely disposable sellers and that 90% had some sort of disposable on their stand. Actually found myself getting a tad annoyed and @LDotKDot telling me to be nice to all the sales staff approaching me trying to push me to their disposable shite stand. I ended up simplify saying I do not touch disposables and walking away.
On the drive home Lizzie said to me “Why are they selling disposables at what is a usually a more vape hobbyist event?”…. I wonder the same myself. I hear a lot from people pushing these devices “Oh they are great for people getting off the cigs and a good gateway to proper Vaping”…. Well, as today showed, they clearly don’t believe their own bollocks. Walking around I saw a vast amount of people using different devices from higher end setups to pod systems. What I didn’t see was anyone, away from a stand, using a disposable.
We wanted to buy a number of devices for the website today. If I’d have wanted disposables (I’d rather chop a testicle off first) I’d have come home with thousands of the buggers, but I wanted proper devices. So what devices did we get for the site? Nothing, nada, zip. I asked numerous wholesalers, manufacturers etc but all the stock they brought was disposables, their actual devices were “For show only”.
So will I be going in October? Yes. I won’t be bothering visiting stands though, I’ll do what was the most enjoyable part of today and made the drive worth while, I’ll be at the bar area chatting to fellow Vapers and friends.
I didn’t know whether I’d bother posting a little opinion piece I wrote on disposables on the site, didnt know if I could be arsed with potential issues etc. After today though, I made it live on the drive home. I tried to be diplomatic but I did write it a few weeks ago…
https://legioxvape.com/blogs/news/disposables-thoughts-and-facts
I’ve just seen a video by @vapesmarter and I’m happy to see he had a lot of the same thoughts myself and Lizzie did.
