I like the TB. I use mine frequently. I don’t have a problem with the battery, and I like the cup. But I think it’s not really aimed at the type of enthusiast who frequents this board, as evinced by the total befuddlement of so many members here. “Who wants a CUP on a vape? Why can’t I hook it up to a bong? The battery won’t support 50 bowls a day!” I’ve been using vaporizers for a couple years now I think, and I continue to be surprised at what crappy customer service people in this space are willing to accept in the name of “innovation.” The Tinymight, which I own and like, had abysmal customer service for a long time. Waits of over a month to get the device were common. Members bent over backwards to handwave CS which would have been completely unacceptable elsewhere. But “bitchin’ vape, dude” and you could run it through water. TM could have sold even more units if they’d planned for good CS from the get go. Now we act like they’re geniuses because they’ve got shipping down to a week. The product is not the entire business.
And this is the thing. We are not Tafees market. Tafee, I think, is trying to expand the market beyond hobbyists. Weed is slowly becoming legal in many places in the US. There’s an enormous potential market out there, and many of those people are just going to want something they can take a couple hits off in the evening. If there’s also a cold drink in it, all the better. It’s a weed koozie. They’re not going to get VAS, they’re not going to obsess over hooking up a bong and a whip. Rightly or wrongly, they associate that sort of thing with stoner hippies. That market is not as big as we think it is, and it’s already showing signs of saturation. I think Tafee is trying to become the Apple of vaporizers, a simple, easy to use device that gets people medicated without endless modding and dicking around with it. The things that many people here complain about with regards to the TB would be features, not bugs for the majority of people.
