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iirc they are banning menthol flavours and plans are in the pipeline (Apr 2016 EU amendment to tpd) to ban most sweet flavours for e-juice as well as to specify the exact size /shape of refill containers and to produce a tech standard for tank refill mechanisms or cartridge based systems....

loads of stuff that's on the market this year will be gone in 12 months as the APR 2016 release is a 12 mth mandatory document not a new legislation document  so there will be zero delays or opt outs from it available either .... lets hope we vote out as a country especially since its now evident from several studies (3 yr /2yr/1yr/6mth/3mth duration type) that are being refused publication in many scientific journals are showing the evidence far from harming various lung conditions vaping actually improves helath and minimises severity of chest infection and reverses harms caused by pollution &/ smoking (but the antz are blocking their publication, and have had several former studies about pg /vg use in inhaled medical products redacted from publications in some cases produced several decades ago so they cane be checked via search systems....) apparently the science about slightly warming pg with a flavour as a vapour delivery system to aid uptake has been known and fully understood for more than 40 years, but has been phased out in most places due to running costs.....

damn that's a long time, the battery shouldn't take that long to charge, the charger is supposed to kick out 400~500mah and an 1100 mah batt would take less than 3 hours to charge from flat (400mah x 3 hours = 1200mah) so either the bats are dead/dying or the charger is fubar if its taking 7 hours from flat its charging at around 150mah..... get a decent charger from a uk supplier

for reference this item www.amazon.co.uk/GENUINE-eGo-E-Cigarette-3-colour-indicator/dp/B00SRPWG3Y/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1461749641&sr=8-9&keywords=ego+charger is a 2200mah battery and takes 5 hours to fully charge from empty....

as to reputable places to get a new charger from any of these with a decent review score should do the job www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ego+charger

plenty of cheap options there and many giving next day delivery for the same /similar price to FT's time frame, oh and you can run them off any phone charger or pc /laptop usb port with a usb socket on it, i'd recoment getting a new charger for sure

it rather depends what the item was

I bought a tv off them 8 years ago and its still working just fine, otoh I got a mobile phone for one of the brats and the "minor imperfection" turned out to be a 17mm crack along one side of the screen ....

the last one went back the following day (picked up FOC by amazon logistics)

but all is not lost, I by a lot of stuff from amazon and plenty of things like my keyboard came from a warehouse deal saved £95 because it had a scuff mark on the underside (ok its a monstrously overpriced keyboard) and ive bought dozens of small tech type items from them with similar imperfections like the g502 proteus core mouse for less than half price because the packaging was damaged (actually I got a couple of them cos of the price as spares since mice break so often), had more duff items come from the full price sales than I have from the warehouse deals .... oh & my OH reckons I spend to much money buying stuff online, apparently clocking in an average of 1/3rd of my income is too much

advken mad hatter v2



got the coils just perfect in terms of size /orientation but just realised one of them dries out faster than the other because there at different heights on the post ... now I need to move them around again and probably re wick as well /

calnorth after labour took over in the 90's the transmitter network was sold off to some French firm, the BBC went from making money transmitting other channels to spending a lot more on transmitting their own, even worse they were forced as part of the sale to agree a 25 year deal to using the system, iirc the company that owns the transmitting network has changed hands a few times since but its still foreign owned and as part of the deal we as a nation lost the emergency broadcast system option as well, there was a big fuss in the papers a few years back because the company that runs the network had been illegally using the BBC's test card image on various channel numbers, in the ned it was about the BBC trying to claw back some of the millions it was wasting on terrestrial transmission costs...

as to time filling, being prone to nights without sleep I often see them transfer to fox or news duing the night on the bbc, where we once provided 24 hours news via the world service (with impartiality) reporting on events fro maround the world were now stuck to hearing about some major atroicity or how the lastest manufactured celeb was caught in xyz compromise .... virtually zero info on the world at large...

we should really recapture that former glory, people all over the world watched the BBC news because it was better than anything nelse on offer, now we are limited to crappy yank channels about the latest faux pas of some non entity for the most part, where was the coverage of the riots in india where are the coverage of the protest marches across Europe or the weekly /monthly reports on how various disaster zones are doing in recovery ? I saw a report on katmandu last week for the first time in a year, the same people still stuck in tents in the harshest weather because zero news coverage means near zero aid efforts to help them..... go back a few years and we would of seen the area cleared of rubble and largely rebuilt thanks to aid from the rest of the world, but now there left in stricken with little more than free blanket ....

stupid thing is everything about our news for the last year has been EU/Us centric and 90% of it has been lies or spin totally ignoring the plight of the rest of the world, and since the BBC created that vacuum in reporting nobody else has taken up the mantle all because the EU determined we had to cut all ties with the commonwealth and that included the BBC no longer being able ot operate overseas broadcasting systems or BT global services owning and operating more than 50% of the worlds undersea cable network and limited landline services to all the third world governments (that's why flagtel was created to take over those networks and French German or Us companies now run most of the worlds communications)

will we ever recover from the harm done to our national enterprises or regain our place as the premier trade and innovation outpost of the world I have no idea but if we don't leave the EU were certainly going to loose everything that we have left /

calnorth

I disagree about needing to get rid of the BBC, I might not like paying the tv licence but every other country I have lived in has had a tv licence (normally as part of local taxes), the BBC has lost its way somewhat but that s only to be expected given the number of whooly minded liberals and over promoted idiots that fit the employment quotas..... it needs streamlining and far from getting rid of needs less red tape, sure the licence fee could be split across the 3 broadcasters (given that only channel 5 and itv are not at least 50% owned by the BBC) it should remain advert free (because I frigging hate adverts in the middle of programs)

its not without its faults and those should be identified and fixed but its also a very necessary company, the iplayer system should require either a tv licence code attached to a login or a fee to access it, and that would generate a lot more cash, the news teams should give less slanting towards left field bollix than they do but that's no different to other "news" broadcasters, they all have their faults and the majority seem hell bent on being useless.

we lost the majority of the met office and with it the ability to accurately predict the weather (now everything relies on computer models that just don't work) if we loose the BBC who will be around to bail out the broadcasters that are going belly up ?

the government cant bail out any commercial company directly (EU rules) so without the bbc we as a country loose out on variety and choice, its bad enough that if central funding is yanked the BBC will need to sell its stake in every other channel (if it sells its 45% stake in itv the 60% stake in channel 4 and all the other various channels we as a nation would be down to 3 channels and 2 of them would be bbc, lets not go back to the bad days of 2 broadcasters one of which isn't even british)