The more thought I've given this situation regarding the identity of the TinyMight maker, I've come to some basic questions and a few rather tentative answers. However, before I post my thoughts about "the answers", I would like to ask those of you who might be interested, to take a whack of your own at these questions first. Please, tell us all what you think!?
1. If you're a new vape maker from Finland who is trying to break in to the U.S. vaporizer market why would you decline to work with established and successful retailers and instead elect to work with a relatively inexperienced and unknown individual in the vaping industry? I'm aware of three larger retailers who approached TinyMight about handling his product but each of them left those brief conversations with the distinct impression that TM wasn't interested in working with them.
2. If you know that your product has created a great deal of buzz in the U.S. already, pretty much with little to no marketing effort, yet your anonymity has become a real sticking point for many of your would be customers, why would you not accept the numerous invitations to visit one or more of the vape forums, to reassure customers of your product, process and business principles?
3. When contacting TM via his posted email address, why does he answer all inquires to his identity with a statement that dodges the question regarding his actual name, by stating that the TM "is a new business"?
4. Most of us who've been around FC awhile know @stickstones and have a great deal of trust in his opinions on all-things-vaporizer. He believes, (after testing the TM for a few months) with a considerable degree of certainty it seems, that the maker is the "same guy" who made the Apollo, one @villekille2 . On the other hand, Khelik41 who has apparently had a TM unit of her own for some time, says, "Oh wow @stickstones I was not aware of that! I could have sworn they were two different individuals." Hmmmm? Why such disparity?
5. Why are there as many, who don't know the maker, so willing to passionately DEFEND him, as there are those who don't know him, so willing to passionately CRITICIZE him?
6. Do the FC admins have any sense of responsibility for protecting the members from potentially unscrupulous makers/vendors? If so, where does that start and what are its limitations? Or does it all just come down to caveat emptor?
7. Does the onus for initiating and developing transactional trust fall upon the seller, or the buyer? Or is it X percent sellers' and Y percent buyers'?
Thanks for your consideration of these questions!
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1:
There could be any number of reasons. Why speculate and invent nefarious motives?
Maybe he was reluctant to enter the US market due to import/export/legality reasons but thought a few sales through
@khelek41girl might be as many as he could realistically manage to manufacture to start with.
There could be any number of legitamate reasons, I see no reason to assume malfeasance.
2:
He(or she) might simply be too busy to engage in this way, or be reluctant due to an aversion to 'the spotlight'.
They might be averse to criticism and be concerned about receiving such (this could be true of both deserved criticism and undeserved).
They might not feel they are compelled to answer ANY questions (especially true of those posed in a combative manner).
Again, legality could be a factor here, most of the world still has to 'keep their heads down' and those who now live in 'friendly' locations seem to forget this sometimes.
3:
Could be due to Apollo, but again LEGALITY......
4:
They are simply two different folk with two different sets of data to interpret with two different brains, why is it suspicious that they might come to different conclusions or make diffferent assumptions to one-another?
5:
I'd guess that some respondants feel that the criticism has been unfair and wish to express that sentiment.
As to those offering doubts and criticism, well, that is the lingua-franca of the Internet after-all.
6:
Well this is a question for the admins, but they've certainly shown concern for us all in the past (see Inhalator for example).
And 6:
....Where they draw that line is up to them, an I wouldn't like to speculate(any more than I am already!).
7:
Dont know the answer to this one as I think individuals will have differing stances.
My own is that both are involved, and that ratio is variable upon the situation.
I am unaware of dissatisfaction with
@villekille2, it must have occured after I stopped following the Apollo thread so it seems unfair for me to come down on either side, especially as I havent seen any real evidence yet that both vapes are definitely made by the same person.
EDIT: this looks like a VERY interesting vape BTW
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