Leeds - Mirage at crossgates don't bother

[Clivia]

I have been there a few month ago and was totally not impressed. They only have a few items and the two people there had no clue - they needed for example to check every price on a list - and then it was more expensive than on the internet.
They only had clearomizers and evods but the lady serving - although vaping - had not even tried the evod herself.
 There were tester clearomizers there - yak - I would not use one of them - who knows who had tried them before.
(why not having tester liqids to use with your own device)

all in all - don't bother

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Shop in selby like this, have no idea what they are selling, unfortunately its getting far too common

[xs2man]

Shop is always gonna be more expensive than the internet though. They have overheads that internet vendors don't. On the plus side, no p+p.

[Greg]

Mirage have been on thego a while, I bought a couple of their starter kits. It's 650mah battery and a CE4. Two cost around £50 .

They work fine and for the uninitiated it's daylight robbery but they work fine. A colleague at work has used these things for 6 months and he's very happy with them. He spent £50 for the kit and that's pretty much all he's spent in 6 months apart from juice and a couple more ce4s. Horses for courses I suppose.

[Clivia]

I am glad gregb that your colleague likes it.
I would love a great shop close by as it's always nice to see things in real.

xs2man - a lot of internet vendors offer free p+p when the order is over a certain amount

[xs2man]

They do, for sure. but if all your needing is a wee bottle of eliquid, or a cheap clearo or head, few places have free p+p for such items. Or, if your caught short and can't wait for stuff to get posted out.

Neither of which are the main point really. And that is that shops have to pay business rates, and employ people to man the shop, as well as having to hold stock and stuff like internet vendors obviously do too. But it all has to be paid for, and that is why physical shops are generally more expensive that internet vendors.

But they all have their place. My local b+m sells no equipment that I would personally buy and their eliquid selection is not generally to my taste (although there are a couple good flavours). But, they have their place. Everytime I'm in there is a steady stream of older people, who probably don't have a computer, and they come in, buy their clearo sand a couple bottles, and away they go. No fuss. No waiting about for delivery, and no having to blow their whole pension on a months worth of gear to qualify for free shipping.

[ukric]

Come to Bradford, we have 3 shops

[Greg]

Jan 25, 2014 14:20:46 GMT ukric said:

Come to Bradford, we have 3 shops

I've been and I don't think 3 ecig shops is enough of a pull for me to return 

[ChillerVapes]

Smokers d'lite in Bradford was chappy to start off with. They have now actually become more knowledgeable and sell mainly innokin or other known brands now.

Not too pricey either.

Starter kits with x3 eliquids £20
VTR I I think is either £79 or £89

They sell the grenade one, the 134, MPV 1 and 2
Iclears and spare heads, genuine protanks, chargers, batteries and more.

Very welcoming staff too.

I was actually taken back when I went in just before Christmas.

The one up near kirkgate is the bigger and better one.

[Clivia]

thanks Chiller Vapes - might give it a go - at the moment I am stocked up - but always nice to know of a shop not too far

[googled]

Better than nothing ! I was so jealous when b&m stores started opening everywhere except locally. I'd give them time, eventually staff will be trained up and they'll stock items vapers really want, probably clearos and egos but meh, at least it's a backup if you run out instead of going back to smoking.