I would just like to thank the FC community for this thread and for the standards of discussion which have allowed it to host the only objective source of information on the internet regarding the G-Pen, or at least the only one I have found thus far.
I was first exposed to this product when "Grenco Science" had a booth at a glass expo that prides itself on 100% American made exhibitors. Erroneously I assumed this meant they vetted all of their vendors regardless of product construction, but I was sorely mistaken.
"Ass, U, Me, etc"
My second and more dangerous assumption was that there is safety in numbers or that the adoption rate was indicative of critical acceptance. I have witnessed a large percentage of the attendees at more than one trade show using these devices, or to be accurate more contemporary iterations of them with red instead of blue lights, etc.
Based on everything I have read from critical user reports, I was one of the "lucky" ones and didn't have problems with my battery, cart or the charger other than the latter dis-assembling itself and needing to be re-soldered at some point.
Suffice it to say once I realized the elements of construction and how their off-gassing would be prime culprits for the "Grenco Headache" everyone seems to experience, my mind literally recoiled in horror. What had I been consuming? I had no idea, all I knew was I couldn't throw it out fast enough
I am not only completely offended by this rebranded chinese garbage in pursuit of profit, but the more disturbing factor is the ignorant acceptance and propagation of this product which is completely counter to the spirit of independent accounting and decision making which leads us all to pursue this lifestyle in the first place.
If people cared as little about the construction of their smoking apparatuses as they do the construction of this "pen", counter-culture retail stores would have never existed in the first place because everyone would be perfectly happy smoking off a crushed up pop-can or those shitty record store metal bowls from decades back. This is another reason it offends me to see retail environments pitching this product off by the caseload, but again I suppose it is yet another dangerous assumption to imagine they maintain anything other than profit as motivation.
The announcement of the glass tank absolved me of any lingering thread of support I could have possibly maintained in the back of my mind based on all the "good times" with the toxic pen. The behavior of their employees on this forum and elsewhere online is indicative of how little they have invested in technology and how much they have invested in re-branded marketing and bullshit hype. Avoid at all costs.