Why so annoyed by criticism
@Vape Dr. ? Please keep it non-personal, professional and fun. Some are happy with the picture, others interested in the pixels. Since I took apart the very first (Chinese) vaporizer -
only to get a shock how not they care of us, buyers, and rather just hide incompatible flaws than overcome real technological challenges of building an electrical high heat environment capable for direct inhalation - I have a cause which I found worthy to sacrifice time and energy. As this forum has grown to the "Wapepedia" of the subject, a certain disgust did also unfold in me towards the extreme tendencies of overpricing. Many (most) of the designers seem to have no other intent in this business, than accumulate fast profit by exploiting a restrained market. While claiming or criticise I tend not to be confrontational at all (
@nondarb is, lol, he mostly quotes me to confront - though I actually like his well considered posts).
I also try to back up everything I say, though a robot taste would be hard to visualize. What I considered completely neutral, is my Cloud EVO, the Fenix is fetched pretty far from that, even though it is way more nonfart, than for example Titan 2 (thats a lol). EVO is also, what I consider ISO friendly (not only the vaporpath, but airpath). So as Xmax, and Imag, and many of those alumina ceramic bowl units (with confirmed sealed electronics), where ISO dripping inside only to evaporate. In Fenix it goes straight on the heater, which wouldn't be an issue, but rubber isolator is, so as the pressure sensor on the end of the airway. I also like to reclaim whatever is soluable in the vaporpath - and it is glass, ceramic, certain plastics and metals I trust. But mostly glass.
I tend to think your problem with me is that your thread got removed as per forum rules, now you pull a trigger against me, as I was the one who first pointed at your wrong decision. You could have just asked a mod before duplicating a topic, to avoid disappointment. Your strong promotion of one specific vendor in the US makes me question your somewhat symphatetic enthusiasm for this vape though, which I enjoy very much, just as everyone else here do. What disgust me however, that the price they (Weecke and Novel) still offered in September, just got more than doubled due some increasing demand. It is not a rocket science to overcome problems with pricing and distribution - its called minimum order quantity. So both sellers and individual customers got their prices right from the beginning. However this "Novel" company just grown fins and jaws when saw some demand. While I admit a few valid point in your comment, please also remember, that your $75 advert is a US thing only, Canadians and EU are still asked to drop half an arm and a leg for this device. And yes, there is a better bang for your bucks, if you consider worldwide - or you consider price/value ratio. From a hundred I rather go up to hundred-odd for an Arizer Air with glass vaporpath, or similar. And yes, I do build and design - amongst many precision appliances for food industry - vaporizers (well, parts at least) also for myself - however I am here as an individual for fun, might consider an approved manufacturer membership here once I decide to get into merch. But considering the extremities of the accessible machinery and resources in China I could barely produce one under 10 bucks.
Do you really expect them to sell the fenix at cost?
You can answer this yourself, if you read my comments. Nm. 584.
