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Does anyone know if ANY of the Golden Tickets were claimed , I thought I heard that at the time of the raffle that none had been claimed.

This is especially distressing when there were a lot of people that ( well me really , but a lot of other deserving people too ) would have been jumping up in the air like Donkey out of Shrek saying "Pick Me , Pick Me ".

I think that was the only real downside for me that there were some that were just charging round getting the free juices etc and just stuffing the rest of the goodie bag in their pocket/rucksack and not even checking.I suppose it's their loss, but it didn't give chances for others like ( me again , lol ) clairea to get freebies that they should have got and deserved.

Andy

I had a great day looking , buying , testing , and watching.

I left home at about 05:30 and travelled the 3 hour 15 min journey, and a little while more for stops.As it was on and off raining ( and I wasn't desperate to be in the first people in and just grab all the feebies ) I sat in my van in the dry and watched the world go by.Then as the queue started to move in I got ready and followed in.

Just as I was getting out of my van I recognised 3 people that were parked just behind me , it was DiscoDes and Perpetua and Neil from Valley Vapes , unfortunately they were the only AAEC members a saw all day.I kept going back to the bar area ( NO, I wasn't drinking , had to drive back the same day ) to find seniorphil for his generous offerings of batts and grommets, but couldn't find him , perhaps I'm not very good at recognising people.I also was looking for people with AAEC badges to but didn't see any but I was wearing mine all day.

I went round the entire site first and saw who and what were there, some vendors that I wanted to go back to ( some multiple times , lol ) and other I was curious about and one that I wanted to see their prices.Regarding the one with prices first , now , I wanted to get a mod and a couple of other things so went round asking about the prices of this mod and the one vendor in question ( I won't say the name but it's in north London next to a large stadium ! ) had , according to the guy I spoke to had gone up in price for the show.I asked him how much, he told me , I asked if that price was for the kit and he said no, just the mod, so when I got home I checked their website expecting the prices to have changed but they hadn't , so it would have been cheaper to order it over the internet , wtf is that about !!! A price hike of 16+ % , very naughty.So, after a couple of hours of just wandering about getting absorbed in one tent looking at the Helix mod and the beautiful wooden mods next to Helix ( I can't remember the name of the wooden mods , not remembering names will be a running theme through this post ) , I started to queue for things that I wanted to get.First off the freebies , I got one of the new juices from T-Juice , being the Gold 'n' Brown as the others I wasn't so interested in.Then off to Celtic Vapours to get a couple of juices there, I plumped for Peanut Butter and Celtic Tobacco , I got a small bag from iFancyon.com which had a Toot'in Juice Bubblegum liquid in it ( not my kind of juice but I will try it, it would be rude not to ).Last but not least I queued for AGES at the DV Mix your flavour and got three , these were Caramel Tobacco , Apple pie and Rich Pipe.At the same time I put my contact details down for them, I can't remember if it was for a competition or something else ( bad memory) got 3 bottles of DV Vapefest Original.

Then I went off to other vendors , trying their exclusives and well known flavours , I tried Snake Oil, and still don't know if it was great or yuk , very different type of flavour and next to them were Digby's and I tried Oriental Plunder and Dr Jekyll both of which I really enjoyed.Others that I tried and enjoyed were Phoenix Vapours - Tobacco Medium , Halcyon Haze - Earth Brother , Spiritus Vapes - Fraho and Craft Vapes - Leprechaun.

Now I was off to buy some things , first was the Easy Coil , I was in a vendors tent when I saw this man T-Shirt and he was holding ( NO rude comments please ) so bought this there and then , then he decided ( even though I have seen review videos ) to give an impromptu demo , which very soon drew a small crowd , this was definitely one of my highlights of the day.I thanked him at the time but I want to thank him again , but I can't remember his name or site that I can contact him on, can anyone help ? ( I told you I was bad at remembering names ).

I then got a cheapish Zenith V2 clone for dripping so I can have adjustable air flow and some fun in a few days time with all the flavours I've got.

I didn't mention it earlier but I had gone to Mrs Lords to try some of their Juices and fell in love with the Seville Marmalade so I bought a 50ml glass bottle for only £15 an absolute bargain , I could have stood there all day with that juice quite happily.Going on from that , Mrs Lord & Co , Helix Mods and the lovely wooden mods ( which I still can't remember ) were all next to each other in a corner of a smallish tent and ALL 3 of them were jam packed all day, which is testament to the quality and popularity of their products and hopefully they will go again next year ( cross fingers for a 2015 Vapefest , I know it's early , but I had a really good time ) and get a lot more room which they really deserve.

Last on the shopping list, but certainly not the least was ( in size and amount ) was a VTR, 2 batts, charger and 4 juices.I got these from Tan and the lovely girls from Vapor-Z .We have been sending messages to and fro for a while on different things and it was a pleasure to meet them.The juices I got were 3 bottles of the Pop-I Pipe Tobacco ( note to Tan remember September please , lol ) and a bottle of their Vapefest launch of Clyde , which was one of two of Vapefest lauches , Bonnie and Clyde.Again I could have stayed there all day and talked to them and their friends they had there, but they had work to do.This is the vendor where I met the maker of the Easy Coil ( Nope, still can't remember his name or link , lol ).Highlight number two.

The last highlight of the day for me was the back at the main DV tent and the mixing tutorial , it taught me so much, but was funny and entertaining at the same time.After I have tried and used the freebies and bought juices I will be mixing my own ( there will be posts from me in time about vendors on this subject as well as DV of course ).They showed us mixing a juice, then a member of the audience made one , THEN came the really funny bit ( for me anyway ).The man leading the tutorial asked the audience what flavours he should use , someone called out Diablo Poco, so that went in followed by Sarsaparilla and I think the last one was blackcurrant, the last two flavours were chosen the marketing guy from DV ( and , no I can't remember either of the guys names ) , after a quick shake and a clearo was filled, they invited people to try.There was a really big , tough looking guy at the back that said he would and I thought he's going to be fine , after he took just one toot of that he was coughing and spluttering for 5 mins, they then offered it to anyone else, so me, being me, had to try.Normally I double toot when I'm vaping and I did the same with this, after the first toot and half way through the second I thought "what was that guy coughing so hard for" , then the chilli hit like a sledgehammer at the back of my throat, WOW that was strong.The juice was then auctioned off for charity, I don't think that juice will be for using somehow , lol.At the end of the tutorial there was a Q & A and we all asked questions, I asked a few more afterwards too and both guys were so good at answering everything and couldn't really be any more helpful, a real big thumbs up.

I sat down and wasted nearly an hour and three quarters to see if I'd won anything on the raffle ( the nearest number to mine was over 400 away , LOL ) , which of course I didn't.Then grabbed a bite to eat and went home and eventually got indoors at 21:10 , so a really long day, but WELL worth it.

So looking back it was a fantastic day, even if I didn't meet up with people I wanted to and the Highlights being Mrs Lord & Co , DV and Vapor-Z.

Andy

I will be there on Saturday Phoenixflame (Julie)

Thanks

Andy

Jul 30, 2014 20:58:38 GMT beetle said:

Made me think of this. Had a good chuckle again.

That's brilliant, I hadn't seen it before.

Andy

Jul 30, 2014 15:38:50 GMT Phoenix . said:

GP's get the vapers over e cig craze.

40% of GP's say they should only be available at over the counter pharmacies, 16% say they not be on the market at all, a similar number say vapers should only be able to buy them on prescription.
E-cigs should be regulated like a medicine and be a pharmacy-only product quoted Dr James Quekett..

The devices will be classed as medicines in Britain from 2016 to make them more 'safe and effective, health regulators say.

What a load of b.....ks!

Just like cigarettes are now !!!!

This is just dangerous, how are these Dr's justifying these ideas, I THOUGHT it was their JOB to improve the health of their patients , not talk BS about something they've read by some idiot like Mr Glantz.

Andy