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You will not be disappointed.

I did give mine a good clean in ISO, but maybe some oil or grease was left behind on the cleaning as there is a definite metallic taste to the juice I have in it.

Even so they are worth every penny.

Good comment Matt

Doubt they will publish mine which was along the lines of  "you lot do rather well out of people becoming
ill and dying of cancer and you see ecigs as a threat to the cosy little positions you've carved out for yourselves by them doing so"

Cynical maybe and I'm sure they have helped many people over the years, but i cannot help but feel there is some truth to it...could be wrong though.

At least regulated as medicines it means that they cannot fall fail to the smoking ban, nor can they stop children using them in schools. They will be freely able to chug away on ecigs during class and the teachers will be powerless to stop them.

You cannot stop someone from taking their medicine after all.

I read this article this morning and thought it relevant at the time before the announcement and I guess it's even more relevant now.

"Pharmacy leaders lambast MHRA plans over GSL sales on planes and trains"
Pharmacy leaders have hit out at MHRA proposals to sell general sale list (GSL) medicines on planes and trains, warning about the risks of selling UK-licensed drugs to international travellers.
www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news-content/-/article_display_list/15813428/pharmacy-leaders-lambast-mhra-plans-over-gsl-sales-on-planes-and-trains


You have to sign up to read the whole article (it's free), but the general gist is that the MHRA are going to lax the rules regarding where GSL medicines can be sold. So even if their proposals do actually happen (I still doubt they won't) then it won't just be restricted to pharmacy sales.

I came to the conclusion several weeks ago that the future of ecigs in this country and the EU will be decided in a court of law. All of our efforts to date have not been in vain, but my personal belief is the whole thing has become a bit of charade and we are just paying lip service to those who love to wield the power we give them. They are loving feeling all important over this issue.

The MHRA or the EU were/are never going to say "all is hunky dory and continue as you were" and in my opinion it was always going to be for the courts to decide.

I can't be overly concerned by what the MHRA have said because until I see the full details that haven't really said much other than what they were expected to say all along. It's all to vague at the moment.

Their decision will be legally challenged as will I expect the EU's pending ruling on ecigs.

My only concern is do we leave the legal challenges just to industry? Maybe consumers should be grouping together and raising a separate legal fund to bring a legal challenge?

It won't happen. although I'm sure there are plenty of EU and USA vendors who are currently having their noses put out of joint by FastTech, then again there are also those who I'd suspect are stocking up via FastTech too.

The thing is there is a large amount of consumers who just will not buy direct from China for a number of reasons.

For example when I was fishing on the weekend there was a fellow angler desperately sucking on a skycig. I showed him my MVP from Fasttech and let him have go. He loved it. Told him where I got it from and whilst he took another toke on his Skycig said "I don't really trust anything from China"

I guess there are two sides to this issue, FastTech under cutting the EU and USA market and then there is the issue of price fixing.

Companies such as Joyetech will refuse to supply a vendor if they sell their products for less than what they recommend. So the vendor is caught between a rock and a hard place.

It's an interesting debate to had.

Personally I don't agree with price fixing and think it's under hand and not to the benefit of the consumer, and that's from someone who is soon to become a vendor.

So who are FT going to pee off next I wonder?