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Post by ukric on Jan 14, 2014 0:02:41 GMT
Bubblewrap is plentiful... but you can't have too much of it, you'd never get any vaping done
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Post by ukric on Jan 13, 2014 23:17:05 GMT
Sh*t happens Ric No blame just needed an update and again thanks for taking the trouble to do this So long as people know it stresses me too BTW your other is currently in the freezer awaiting its twin.
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Post by ukric on Jan 13, 2014 23:01:24 GMT
I had thought it would arrive today, it was dispatched to me on Thursday, I was told it would arrive "early next week" on Friday when I said "It's not here yet" The bugger with it is this, I took 3 hours off work Friday expecting it to arrive, when my partner was at uni. Partner's been in all day today, no delivery. I'm now gonna have to go to work tomorrow and book leave, and if they ring me take the leave as my partner is back at uni 12-whenever and it's sods law it'll turn up then. It's bloody annoying tbh, shit delivery system But they're used to delivering to business where someone is in full time I guess I'm sat with a pile of boxes, and a massive box full of bottles, just need the stuff to put in it. If it arrives tomorrow it will be bottled in the evening and in the post the next day. So I'm really sorry for the delay and waiting, I know it's frustrating. If it were a case of it being in England I'd go pick it up, but with it being N.I. I can't
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Post by ukric on Jan 12, 2014 20:59:27 GMT
Just a mini bump as we'd love to see a few new faces this month. No nerves, no judgement, just come along and have a chat and a Vape
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Post by ukric on Jan 11, 2014 1:44:10 GMT
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Post by ukric on Jan 8, 2014 23:35:10 GMT
Ebay instead, Boots is decent and faily cheap, if they have it in, but, I prefer ebay which is cheaper and delivered to the door
Still needs thinning out like
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Post by ukric on Jan 8, 2014 14:33:02 GMT
Thought some might've intersted in this
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Post by ukric on Jan 5, 2014 12:48:33 GMT
Is step two teaching them to mix their own damn juice?
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Post by ukric on Jan 4, 2014 17:39:25 GMT
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Post by ukric on Jan 4, 2014 1:29:46 GMT
OK, so because one person had one conversation with one person anything made in China should be avoided?
And let's be absolutely honest here, the clone debate here is irrelevant. It's anything where anyone is forced to make anything, just that this particular person identified with one item.
Now, that's the nature of manufacturing in China. Sometimes the workers are treated fairly and responsibly, sometimes they're not. Whether it's a cloned e-cigs or not is irrelevant.
So where do you go from here? Well you can boycott anything you can that's made in China. Well, that doesn't really work. Why? You're typing on a Computer, a Phone or a Tablet. Something within it will have been made in a factory in China. Try going around your house and listing every single manufactured item in your house... it soon gets 1. Impossible 2. Silly
Now, how do you determine whether the item you're buying is from a 'fair' Chinese factory or a 'not so fair' Chinese factory? You can't. Personally there is no way you can ever know whether the individual that made/supervised the production of that item wasn't beaten.
So lets just restrict it to ecig stuff? Well, how about the steel that the ecig was made from, how do you know where that came from? How do you know that the minerals that were mined were not from suppressed Chinese workers? Again, the further down the line you go, there's no way you can tell.
No matter the quality of the mod, whether made in the UK, EU, Asia, you just personally cannot ever know that somewhere along the line someone was not mistreated in the production process from start to finish.
Even the high end mods that people buy (£3000 for a chi you anyone?) use batteries manufactured in China (some of them are shipped on to Japan for post production modification or vice versa). Are you willing to give batteries up?
So you’ve decided to boycott Chinese made stuff ecig or otherwise. So consider this, what about those workers that are treated fairly? You stop buying, the hard working and well treated workers from China lose jobs because their companies don’t have the work for them to do. They are unable to feed their families as a result. In much the same as the not so well treated workers do.
Another possibility is that the not so well treated workers are worked even harder to meet stricter profit margins pressed upon those companies as a result. Instead of 2 five minute breaks per 10 hour day, they now get one.
Feel better for not buying anything from China and boycotting? Maybe not so much?
The issue here is much much much bigger than whether to buy clones from China or not. And you deciding to boycott China will not necessarily make the situation any better.
Do I know the solution? No. Do I think the solution is "Don't buy clones!" No.
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Post by ukric on Jan 4, 2014 0:36:12 GMT
I would highly recommend it. Although, my advice would be go for the sake of meeting the people and having a good laugh rather than going to see the stalls and shiny things. £6.49 off... (no postage) that should get you to England in Diesel
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Post by ukric on Jan 4, 2014 0:26:27 GMT
Hi ukric, foolishly I dropped out of this one. If there is any chance you are gonna do another one I'd like to join up... Vapefest (for collection) is the next one, I need a bit of time where I'm not planning a group buy so I can do other stuff (it does take a fair bit of time). There will of course be some spaces on the VF one (i expect) to make up the odd few KG to the next 30KG drum, but people attending VF will get priority. Why? P&P for this take about 4 hours in total. Solid hours doing nothing else. On the plus side though I would HIGHLY reccomend attending VF if you can at all, there's even the oppertunity for some free beer/wine as I generally make some to take Just waiting for VF to be announced. However, there will be plenty of the group buys in future before any issues of availibilty start. The only difference with future ones is there may be a deposit at the time of adding to the list.
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Post by ukric on Jan 4, 2014 0:04:57 GMT
Dispatch (to me) Monday... This weekend I shall mostly be making cardboard boxes. FML
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Post by ukric on Jan 3, 2014 14:11:04 GMT
Stealing this!
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Post by ukric on Dec 31, 2013 19:08:04 GMT
I've been fortunate, I've been given a lot of stuff for free. Where I receive something for free and it's not for me I'll generally either give it away or in some cases charge postage. This has been the same for people online and people IRL.
If I get given an ego kit for example or I find a very cheap offer I'll get it/buy it and store it away somewhere. I know they work, but I've moved on and have enough kit that I use not to have to/want to use them myself, so they get given away.
If however it's stuff I've bought for my own consumption/use then it costs them what I've paid, and only if it's surplus at that point. My stuff, is mine, and I've worked hard to buy the stuff I've got.
I'm more than happy to point people in the direction of the right stuff to buy if they want more than I am willing to give. There has to be a line somewhere.
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