I've always used an eleaf iStick with a mini nautilus. I've had probably a half dozen of these set ups (lost some, broke some, still have a couple). My outfits are on their last legs and yesterday I was travelling on business when my ecig acted up. It was after 5pm and I raced into Maidstone town centre to a shop that was still open.
I ended up in a really hip "vape lounge." I asked if they had the eleaf/mini nautilus and they said no. All they carried were more advanced, shiney new options. So they showed me something boxy with buttons and I thought "OK" then they sold me a tank... and then I started to sense that something was different. All the tanks were different from what I was used to (very wide mouths.) They didn't have anything like the nautilus or even a small clearomizer. Then they told me that these tanks couldn't use the regular juice. They had these lovely gourmet juices. Well I buy dekang menthol medium strength by the box. I was told that I couldn't use those juices as they were too strong. Instead of 18mg I was sold 6mg.
I bought a really nice flavour and happily used the new set up. But I had to google to understand what all this was... apparently, this is sub-ohm vaping. And while it's pleasant I am not sure if it suits me. I realised that the point of sub-ohm vaping is to get as much vapour as possible. It's sort of fun when I'm sat on the sofa but I'm not sure I want to be puff the magic dragon when I'm out in public. I manage to vape in lots of places you're not supposed to - including Wetherspoons and on quite a few flights. There's no way I could get away with it if I'm making huge clouds!
Also, I'm not keen to buy fancy juices when I'm used to using the same flavour of dekang at a very reasonable price.
I'm going to replace my preferred setup via Amazon so it's not a disaster. I think it may be nice to use the high-power thing while sat at home and take the old-school set-up when I go out.
But I wonder why I was upsold so hard? I'm considering calling that shop and asking them if they ONLY sell sub-ohm equipment. I didn't know what to call it at the time but I did try to ask if they didn't have anything like what I was used to. They just sort of waved it aside and I think they said that no, they didn't.
Come to think of it when I last went to my regular shop in Manchester they no longer sold the eleaf or the nautilus and were talking about these really high-power things that make massive clouds. They still sell the dekang by the carton (which is why I was there) but they also sell the fancy expensive juices that come in little brown bottles with eye-droppers.
Are shops just pushing these now? Do they all assume that everyone wants to make huge clouds? To me, vaping is just a nicotine delivery system. Clouds can be fun in some situations but I would rather not just be sold a whole new system with different requirements and - very importantly - can't use the sort of juice that I can find in an off-license at 11pm when I realise I've run out.
Shouldn't the shop have recognised what I used and explained what was going on?
I'm being totally unreasonable but I'm still irritated!