vape jam 2015

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so i seen that vape jam started and people are posting the crazy ammounts of free juices

wish i went now for the price of getting down there and a ticket i would have been quids in the amount iof juices
i would have got next time i will be there

[lairey]

Are you talking about the post by Les on UK Vape Community on FB @zuza? If so, half way down the comments, someone has posted a pic of the Space Jam stand... if you look at the stand behind it with the brick wall, that's our stand and it looks really busy

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May 8, 2015 16:53:18 GMT lairey said:

Are you talking about the post by Les on UK Vape Community on FB @zuza? If so, half way down the comments, someone has posted a pic of the Space Jam stand... if you look at the stand behind it with the brick wall, that's our stand and it looks really busy

just been random posts on twitter and other places

will you be going next time for the freebies

[lairey]

I'm going tomorrow... I had to man the shop today and the lads went up, tomorrow is all mine

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May 8, 2015 17:20:43 GMT lairey said:

I'm going tomorrow... I had to man the shop today and the lads went up, tomorrow is all mine

nice one am sure you will get a few litres of free juices

wont need to mix for a while ... want my address to send a care package from vape jam hehe

[lairey]

May 8, 2015 17:26:26 GMT @zuza said:

May 8, 2015 17:20:43 GMT lairey said:

I'm going tomorrow... I had to man the shop today and the lads went up, tomorrow is all mine

nice one am sure you will get a few litres of free juices

wont need to mix for a while ... want my address to send a care package from vape jam hehe

 I haven't need to mix for months, got so much already mixed up... but, you know, I'm fickle! 

[blakey]

Well, vapejam
Doors opened at 12 and ole blakey duly walked up the hammersmith road from the tube station and joined onto a queue that resembled a chuffing train, there were great plumes rising up from the cloud chasers as the queue meandered it's way through the main doors masses of different scents to invade the noses of any poor sod standing down wind, I'm a vaper and I was pi$$ed off with it! but I thought it must at least be the right queue
12:45hrs and I finally got through the door only to be taken to one side and have my shoulder bag searched, fair enough - these places can't be too careful.
Directed off towards a couple of lifts that were to take us up to the 1st floor, about 20 of us were crammed into that lift and thankfully everyone of us had respect enough and resisted the urge to have a puff. The lift doors opened and we walked out into what can only be described as a fog
1st thing I saw was Mr.busardo in deep conversation with someone and getting his picture taken with a fan- I'm sure he died his hair for the uk trip
The vaping greek was close by talking into a camera. I never got a chance to speak to either of them.
I started making my way towards the stalls and stands and bumped into dave dorn, I said hello Mr Dorn, shook his hand and went on about my business. That's 3 people who I enjoy watching on youtube so I thought great start.
Then I started walking round all the stalls at a quickish pace with the sole intention to find a dna40 squonker and at the same time making a mental note of the stands I would want to revisit, noticed that suicide bunny were giving away freebies and dutifully stopped and got a bag of samples of what seems like their entire range - result good job I stopped cos in about 60mins they had been cleaned out and were shutting up shop:o
Found an Italian fella with a small stand and he was displaying a stunning little wooden DNA40 box squonker, it was just slightly larger than an RDNA -it was a work of art and I wanted it there and then.
No chance, he was taking orders and they were going to be selling for 360 euros My kneecaps started itching at the thought but if he had any on that stall I would've bought one there and then - even at that price
There were no other squonkers anywhere apart from the vaporflask dna40 squonker from uk-ecigstore, I couldn't resist
I started going round again at a slower pace reading all the descriptions of flavours on the different stands and sampling the ones that looked appealing, then I realised that what was available was 99% juice vendors and very little in the way of hardware. Uk-ecigstore had a decent range on display and di-codes danny had their range, one vendor had a few pipes on display, vaporshark had their gear and my italian fella with his squonk boxes, everything else was juice. A slight exaggeration but that's how it seemed.
Loaded with samples and a couple of spare shark skins I bumped into Bob, he was the only person I recognised apart from philmepowers who was busy working
(sorry if I wasn't too chatty bob, head was splitting tbh )
I went round again for a third time, just in-case I missed anything - nope
Wandered around for a while to see if I could recognise anyone - nope
Looked at the queues in the kitchen cos I was getting a little peckish and thought sod that, had enough of queues!
So I thought - I've seen enough, sampled enough, I'm hungry - I'm off home. The time was 15:30hrs
All in all it was an enjoyable experience if a little short lived, it would've been great to see a few mod makers and a few attie makers- that's really what I was hoping for but for whatever reason they were largely absent.
I took 2 hours to get home on the tube and train, 30mins of that was standing in charring cross waiting because of station upgrade works at london bridge meant that charring cross trains weren't stopping there and it appears a reduced service was in place.
I'm sat here now, full of fray bentos pie and chips and admiring this vaporflask squonker at the same time vaping with the squonker that @windows built for me (beautiful piece it is too) and thinking - do I really want to be coiling up drippers to be tasting all these samples
Or do I just want to put my feet up and watch the last couple of episodes of 24 that I still haven't gotten round to watching

Vapejam was ok but for whatever reason there were a lot of vendors and modders that should've been there but weren't, and a lot of juice vendors absent too- whether they thought the cost of a stand was too high or there was some politics involved I don't know but a reasonably good experience would've been a great one had they all attended.

[Deleted]

And fun was not had by all, blakey!

Hope you don't mind, but as a thread had not long been started about Vape Jam, I've merged your experience to it.

[blakey]

May 8, 2015 18:30:39 GMT jess said:

And fun was not had by all, blakey!

Hope you don't mind, but as a thread had not long been started about Vape Jam, I've merged your experience to it.

Is that blooming lairey again
TuT

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No problem, I know my place


I didn't have a bad time, not by a long shot - I think my expectations were more the issue
I'm not sorry I went

[Bob]

I think blakey has just about covered it, I crawled up the stairs rather than take the lift, was interested in trying the 3 Beard juices that I didn't have, and ended up buying one of each so I now have the full set, got the baggie from Suicide Bunny as well, 4 of their own, 4 of the new ones and 4 of the King's Crown, a freebie t-shirt from the Vape Club, along with a handful of cheapo tips that can be used for testing some of the myriad of US & Canadian juices, also bought a couple of Mrs Lord juices, one from Canada, a couple from SVAPO, I wanted one of those squonkers as well and a couple of other US ones.

I'm going back tomorrow, as I didn't have enough cash on me, and VaporShark couldn't take UK cards, and I want a large screen VS - just unsure whether to get the smaller DNA40 or the rDNA40, I already have a small screen of the latter.

[lairey]

May 8, 2015 18:47:29 GMT blakey said:

May 8, 2015 18:30:39 GMT jess said:

And fun was not had by all, blakey!

Hope you don't mind, but as a thread had not long been started about Vape Jam, I've merged your experience to it.

Is that blooming lairey again
TuT

.


No problem, I know my place


I didn't have a bad time, not by a long shot - I think my expectations were more the issue
I'm not sorry I went

Wasn't me this time, it was @zuza  Tease-smiley
Did you visit our stand?

[blakey]

May 8, 2015 19:00:51 GMT lairey said:

May 8, 2015 18:47:29 GMT blakey said:

Is that blooming lairey again
TuT

.


No problem, I know my place


I didn't have a bad time, not by a long shot - I think my expectations were more the issue
I'm not sorry I went

Wasn't me this time, it was @zuza  Tease-smiley
Did you visit our stand?

You're stand
were your lot there

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[blakey]

May 8, 2015 18:58:08 GMT Bob said:

I think blakey has just about covered it, I crawled up the stairs rather than take the lift, was interested in trying the 3 Beard juices that I didn't have, and ended up buying one of each so I now have the full set, got the baggie from Suicide Bunny as well, 4 of their own, 4 of the new ones and 4 of the King's Crown, a freebie t-shirt from the Vape Club, along with a handful of cheapo tips that can be used for testing some of the myriad of US & Canadian juices, also bought a couple of Mrs Lord juices, one from Canada, a couple from SVAPO, I wanted one of those squonkers as well and a couple of other US ones.

I'm going back tomorrow, as I didn't have enough cash on me, and VaporShark couldn't take UK cards, and I want a large screen VS - just unsure whether to get the smaller DNA40 or the rDNA40, I already have a small screen of the latter.

Did you not fancy the vapor flask dna40 squonker then bob?

[Bob]

May 8, 2015 20:36:46 GMT blakey said:

May 8, 2015 18:58:08 GMT Bob said:

I think blakey has just about covered it, I crawled up the stairs rather than take the lift, was interested in trying the 3 Beard juices that I didn't have, and ended up buying one of each so I now have the full set, got the baggie from Suicide Bunny as well, 4 of their own, 4 of the new ones and 4 of the King's Crown, a freebie t-shirt from the Vape Club, along with a handful of cheapo tips that can be used for testing some of the myriad of US & Canadian juices, also bought a couple of Mrs Lord juices, one from Canada, a couple from SVAPO, I wanted one of those squonkers as well and a couple of other US ones.

I'm going back tomorrow, as I didn't have enough cash on me, and VaporShark couldn't take UK cards, and I want a large screen VS - just unsure whether to get the smaller DNA40 or the rDNA40, I already have a small screen of the latter.

Did you not fancy the vapor flask dna40 squonker then bob?

Not really, did like that Svapo one though, and I had a chat with the guy, and he's planning a sx350j version, it will be slightly bigger to accommodate the board though, so I might just send them an email registering my interest.

[philmepowers]

Blakey described it to a t......and he was well behaved....lol