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It's encouraging to finally see a retailer who's bothered to read the actual (draft) UK law (the Department of Health's interpretation of the TPD) about the sale of nicotine rather than repeat the received wisdom mistakenly put about by some who ought to know better.

Apparently adding a tiny amount (1% I think) of Dragonfruit will reduce the rate the strawberry flavour dies off.

We're heading back into the realms of uncharted chemistry here so only experiment with what you'll be happy to dump if it all goes wrong.

Oh yes, thank you Madame @spikeyfridge (AWOL)

Or a very large calculator and a jumbo-sized pen.

Many happy returns, wonderful!

Good to see another good report for Darrant - I ordered a couple of litres from them last week to check out the quality of service as much as the products and everything was fine - even Yodel only took one day longer than expected.
Over the next couple of weeks I hope a few more people will confirm that they're happy with Darrant rather that it just being the opinions of a few of us.

If nothing else, I hope they'll be seen as an alternative to Lubrisolve and Everything Liquid.


I lost mos of my faith in Lubrisolve a few months ago when it was spotted that their VG nic contained 20% water so, at best, it should have been labelled AG.
And they tried to brush of a complaint by saying "that was how people preferred it" which completely missed the point.

Then customers started posting photos of the nic they'd just received that was clearly already colouring and I don't mean just a tint.

But it was when they started putting it about that they'd received "TPD clearance" (or that they'd been "cleared" or that they'd be "issuing a [TPD] compliant certificate" - the message changed several times) to continue selling nic up to 75mg/ml that I'd had enough and challenged them on twitter.

They tried to bluff their way out of it but - as I know a little bit about the TPD (sic) - I refused to be intimidated, so they offered a phone call to "explain it all to you in more detail for you."

It was a private phone call which touched on their business strategy, so I won't go into details but I'm almost certain that they've received no legal advice about the TPD, that they barely have a grasp of the concept of due diligence and that they believe they'll be able to justify continuing trading as they are because it's only Brussels interfering. (I kid you not.)

If you're happy with their products, pricing and service please continue using them.
It makes no odds to me and I've no axe to grind.

Perhaps I should have made my comment more clear - it was intended primarily as a direct request to digicig to keep his ears open while he's visiting Shenzhen.

I have little sympathy for the majority of retailers who've ignored the TPD until now but it's too late for recriminations.

I wouldn't be surprised if - once the regulations and in particular, the atomiser emissions test requirements are finally apparent - a couple of the Chinese manufacturers decide to put a few tiny atomisers through the process. Hence my interest in any tidbits of information...