Maybe, one day, they'll be able to get the tech small enough (power supply the big issue I guess) to pack all that and a decent battery, in something the size of that hand piece. A real pocket sized heater! That would be toot-sweet!
Y'know, this is where the demolition of the high-street retail market has buggered us up somewhat. Little or no chance of finding outlets where you can handle and even try before shelling out such large amounts of moulah! I know most of the makers and sellers are in good faith, but this is a pretty personal thing, takes more than just quality to satisfy. At 2/300 upwards a shot, these things can be expensive to take a chance on, especially in a fast growing arena like this. And often being unable to try it at home as it disallows returns doesn't really help the matter.
It's a bit of a quandary really, as relatively early adopters we subsidise the development of new idea's and subsequent models.
Look at what VAS really is for a minute?
Is it that because we're stoner's, we're somehow subject to some force that makes us spend more than we should need to, to indulge in the hobby? Because for a popular term to arise like that suggests it effects a lot of the people here. But that's not what I would normally expect in a niche 'hobbyist' area like this. I think in most mature hobbies (for want of a better word or phrase) people do still follow acquisitive practices - that's normal in many species, it's an evolutionary aspect of survival, in these era's a major driver of evolution is resource scarcity, and that's very often (especially with humans) because of competing with their own kind as much or more than other species (with human's, most other species, esp. mammals have now been driven to extinction or close to, by us).
So, we are genetically attuned to automatically want to gather resources. For the healthy majority, once satiated, the urge reduces, though for a minority this feedback loop is broken, and they want more, the more they have - ergo, the like's of Elon Gates! This would be ok, except we've developed the structure and technology that allow one person to acquire so much it massively damages not only their own species, but all the others that make up the biosphere, without which we can't survive long term. Any who, I've digressed, sorry!
So, we're mostly attuned to acquire until we have all we need and want, pretty much. So why is this area so prevalent to VAS (or it's equivalent elsewhere - BAS, CAS DAS, etc)? Despite the high cost for many of us? If you are into HiFi for instance, I'd like to bet that for most people, they'd put all their money into a single all-beating system, rather than half a dozen of lower quality scattered through the house? All the expensive accessories that make as much profit or more than the original item, is repeated many times for each time the latest and greatest device comes out.
But, I have to concede that this is also the very nature of what I would call a high tech grass roots development area. And to return to my original point (what the fuck was all that BS just now, then? I amaze myself sometimes!) we are paying for that development, and THAT's what VAS
really is!
not saying there's lot's of individual psychology at work for each of us, but at it's core, I believe
that's the driver of VAS!
So next time you lament the drop in your current balance ("Oh hell! I've lost my balance!!!
"), remember, if it pisses you off, you're actually investing in the industry! It may seem wasteful putting that old vape in the drawer to gather dust, but actually, each 'lost' item is actually some value taken out of the environment and passed to the vape industry, because it's part of the process of buying another, removing it from the dynamics of the whole process, leaving the vacuum that brings in new stuff! After all, however good the vapes are, is anyone really going to use 16 vapes on a regular basis? I doubt many would use more than 3 or 4 as their daily items.
[Edit:] I've
really got to stop those early morning tokes! Or just start writing crap novels?
Maybe I’ll cave in one day.
(don’t blame em)
love that ashcatcher with the lil passthrough! Got a link for it? 
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