Irish and imported cheap e liquid shops

fannywart

Hi all
New to the world of vapping.

Being a bit of a cheap skate, I was looking into cheap sources of e-liquid.

I found one Irish site:
http://www.e-shop.ie
2 euros /10 mls dekang flavours.

2 Chinese sites one :with 2$ shipping charge
and the other is free shipping
http://www.fasttech.com/category/1411/electronic-cigarettes
$15 dollars for 100mls :eek: of what appears to be dekang = 11.50 euros
Free shipping

and

http://www.uecigarette.com/e-liquid-e-juice/100ml-e-liquid.html

unknown to me Chinese brand of 100 mls of e liquid at a cost of euros 8 and $2 shipping on however much you order :eek:

I ordered some bits from uecigarette some dekang and some 100ml unkown chinese liquids
Ill let you know how it goes.

It would be nice to have this thread dedicated to the cheap skates in our community by including cost per x mls + postage cost, with some feed back on the product

Mr. Chrome

Had to cancel an order recently from China because the vendor couldnt get it past customs, would still try it again though, at prices like that how could you not!

fannywart

Irish or Chinese customs
Do the Irish customs have issue with users importing eliquid

Mr. Chrome

fannywart wrote: »

Irish or Chinese customs and
Did customs confiscate the liquid
or did you get your cash back?

Chinese customs, he said the were x raying everything and not allowing liquids trough, no problem with hardware though, he told me to cancel order and reorder so I had to put in a paypal claim, got the money back and didnt reorder!
Saying all that I would try again, maybe with a different vendor.

DubTony

fannywart wrote: »

Hi all

2 Chinese sites one :with 2$ shipping charge
and the other is free shipping
http://www.fasttech.com/category/1411/electronic-cigarettes

Jesus, the first product on that page is a liquid with Tar :eek::eek::eek:

fannywart

I got some e-liquid from china, though the parcel came from singapore!!

Maybe its to get through Chinese customs or just because the shop is in another country?

http://www.uecigarette.com/e-liquid-e-juice/30ml-e-liquid.html

This stuff is cheap

The green arrow is nice:), like a mellow, weak mint, does not have a mouthwash feel after use.

The apple, vanellia and marlborogh all too weak in flavour:( for my taste. I think they would be good for mixing.

Next Ill try the red cow and mixed fruit I am looking for something sweet and a bit more fruity flavour. Ill let you know how the next trans border purchase proceedes.

fannywart

Oh forgot to feed back on the Irish website mentioned by me in first post:
http://www.e-shop.ie

My subjective flavour feedback is:

It all seems to be dekang, the cherry, mint, dunhill, camel, virginia are good
Cherry is my best flavour so far.


The USA mix is overrated on different websites.

The coconut, vanilla , chocolate, coffee are difficult to like , not worth trying.

The blueberry gives me heartburn, does tase like blueberry though.

The watermellon, is watery pleasent but boring.

tommy2bad

Mr. Chrome wrote: »

Chinese customs, he said the were x raying everything and not allowing liquids trough, no problem with hardware though, he told me to cancel order and reorder so I had to put in a paypal claim, got the money back and didnt reorder!
Saying all that I would try again, maybe with a different vendor.

Wonder if the China retailer were using China Post? Liquid is baned by most postal systems and needs to be shipped by courier now.

Mr. Chrome

tommy2bad wrote: »

Wonder if the China retailer were using China Post? Liquid is baned by most postal systems and needs to be shipped by courier now.

Yep, China post, it was vaporbreak!!

jamie72

Don't try DHL for anything over €25. Customs have them all over the place at the moment. Not really DHLs fault, but until they streamline their process you should avoid at all costs.

tommy2bad

jamie72 wrote: »

Don't try DHL for anything over €25. Customs have them all over the place at the moment. Not really DHLs fault, but until they streamline their process you should avoid at all costs.

Double for that, DHL will pay the customs and bill you themselves, proper little tax collectors they are. Worst bit is they send the customs bill a few days after delivery and theirs you thinking you dodged the duty.

jamie72

I have 25 euro worth of cable sitting in customs at the moment. Customs want €27 import duty on it. Their logic? Since it came so far the shipping must have cost €100 (it cost €10, but wasn't on the invoice). I've emailed them off and got a reply stating that it will be resolved in three weeks. This whole thing is holding up a job I have on fitting security cameras in a shop. If that place gets robbed between now and then the owner will feckin hang me.

tommy2bad

I hate closed markets and people herded like sheep, Bloody business treats us like trapped animals; as far as gov is concerned we are a product to sell to markets not seeing markets as serving people.
Rant over.

jamie72

I was thinkig for getting a UK PO box as I live beside the border, does anyone know if they are as useless as the Irish customs?

StickyIcky

tommy2bad wrote: »

I hate closed markets and people herded like sheep, Bloody business treats us like trapped animals; as far as gov is concerned we are a product to sell to markets not seeing markets as serving people.
Rant over.

****ing rant on dude!!! Baaahhhhh!!! <- me as a sheep

jamie72 wrote: »

I was thinkig for getting a UK PO box as I live beside the border, does anyone know if they are as useless as the Irish customs?

Parcel motel?

Stefan_Cork

DubTony wrote: »

Jesus, the first product on that page is a liquid with Tar :eek::eek::eek:

TAR wtf ????? Crazy, i wouldnt buy any of this stuff...
Well i suppose at least you saved a few bob lol

heliguyheliguy

+1 parcel motel
http://www.parcelmotel.com/

richardw001

Stefan_Cork wrote: »

TAR wtf ????? Crazy, i wouldnt buy any of this stuff...
Well i suppose at least you saved a few bob lol

+1 I Agree with Stefan - this stuff sounds terrible.
The price of e liquid is quite cheap anyhow relative to a smoking habit - don't think its worth the few euro savings in the above links - however each to their own !

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

how the hell would you get tar in an ejuice anyway

i've seen a few chinese auction sites labelling ejuice as 'tar oil' so maybe it's just a translation snafu

fannywart

http://www.uecigarette.com/100ml-e-liquid-for-electronic-cigarette-mixed-fruit-flavor.html

Ok I orderd 100 mls of fruity ejuice.

The apple was crap, the green arrow was ok

hope this tickles my taste buds.

MoodeRator

Are you looking to sell on your Apple by any chance? I quite like it:)

ZeRoY

fannywart wrote: »

http://www.uecigarette.com/e-liquid-e-juice/100ml-e-liquid.html

unknown to me Chinese brand of 100 mls of e liquid at a cost of euros 8 and $2 shipping on however much you order :eek:

I ordered some bits from uecigarette some dekang and some 100ml unkown chinese liquids
Ill let you know how it goes.

It would be nice to have this thread dedicated to the cheap skates in our community by including cost per x mls + postage cost, with some feed back on the product

I would seriously question how can they make it so cheap - Prefer to stick with better known brands / Sites, god only knows whats in those liquid, possibly no nicotine at all

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

they make it in bulk, that's how it's so cheap
big ass vats of liquid made at a time

damon5

ZeRoY wrote: »

I would seriously question how can they make it so cheap - Prefer to stick with better known brands / Sites, god only knows whats in those liquid, possibly no nicotine at all

NICOTENE CONTENT...now theres another can of worms :eek:

richardw001

I have to say its an area that I'm not completely happy with - in terms of most eliquids

Even the big brands and a lot of the bigger shops in ireland are a bit vague about the origins of the different ingredients.

There's only one Irish shop I can think off of hand that says all its ingredients on its standard e liquids are produced in the EU.
Also with a bit of digging you find that some of the other big brand ones are EU or US produced as well. However even with that there's only skimpy lab reports in most of these cases.

(I won't mention any names or shops cos I don't want to blacken anyones name - esp some of the people I order from ! However if any of them are reading - and open to criticism - then its definitely an area that they could work on - and suggest to their eliquid providers they need to work on).

It probably doesn't bother a lot of you - especially some of the bargain hunters on this thread - however just saying its a big selling point for me !

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah, we could have been vaping horse all this time and not know about it
this issue needs regulating

grindle

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

yeah, we could have been vaping horse all this time and not know about it
this issue needs regulating

Neigh Nay, say it ain't so!

Mmmm...regulation... What's the odd pube here or there, y'know? Is it really so bad?

P_1

grindle wrote: »

Neigh Nay, say it ain't so!

Mmmm...regulation... What's the odd pube here or there, y'know? Is it really so bad?

The thing is that we already have regulation with the CE scheme and all that boring jazz...

damon5

damon5 wrote: »

NICOTENE CONTENT...now theres another can of worms :eek:

http://tasteyourjuice.com/wordpress/2012/02/16/nic-strip-nicotine-test-strip/

ZeRoY

damon5 wrote: »

http://tasteyourjuice.com/wordpress/2012/02/16/nic-strip-nicotine-test-strip/

This, it was real and existed. And 100Ml for $12 sorry but they have to be cutting corners....

GobblyNob

I would never buy any of that cheap chinese liquid shyte. However, I would buy cheap chinese hardware. I ordered these two weeks ago, just arrived today. Can't go wrong at this price

http://www.tinydeal.com/quit-smoking-6-x-ce4s-16ml-detachable-e-cigar-atomizers-p-75808.html

southcentral lk

fannywart wrote: »

Hi all
New to the world of vapping.

Being a bit of a cheap skate, I was looking into cheap sources of e-liquid.

I found one Irish site:
http://www.e-shop.ie
2 euros /10 mls dekang flavours.

2 Chinese sites one :with 2$ shipping charge
and the other is free shipping
http://www.fasttech.com/category/1411/electronic-cigarettes
$15 dollars for 100mls :eek: of what appears to be dekang = 11.50 euros
Free shipping

and

http://www.uecigarette.com/e-liquid-e-juice/100ml-e-liquid.html

unknown to me Chinese brand of 100 mls of e liquid at a cost of euros 8 and $2 shipping on however much you order :eek:

I ordered some bits from uecigarette some dekang and some 100ml unkown chinese liquids
Ill let you know how it goes.

It would be nice to have this thread dedicated to the cheap skates in our community by including cost per x mls + postage cost, with some feed back on the product

How fast is the shipping with Fast Tech?

fannywart

southcentral lk wrote: »

How fast is the shipping with Fast Tech?

I ordered from chinabuye

http://www.chinabuye.com/50ml-e-liquid-for-electronic-cigarette-mixed-fruit-flavor-high-content

2x50 MLS mixed fruit a bit like vimto drink with shipping it cost about 10 euros.
2 weeks to arrive


The other website
Uecigartte
I got 100 MLS mixed fruit also
http://www.chinabuye.com/50ml-e-liquid-for-electronic-cigarette-mixed-fruit-flavor-high-content
Also about a Tenner
Took about a month!

Mixed fruit is a very nice flavour but compared to the usual dekang juices it is not as strong a flavour dare I say it is just perfect.

fannywart

I did not order from fast tech the.juices are cheaper from the other 2 vendors.
fasteck do have cheaper hardware though like the vamo kit.

Thecageyone

GobblyNob wrote: »

I would never buy any of that cheap chinese liquid shyte. However, I would buy cheap chinese hardware. I ordered these two weeks ago, just arrived today. Can't go wrong at this price

http://www.tinydeal.com/quit-smoking-6-x-ce4s-16ml-detachable-e-cigar-atomizers-p-75808.html

Just because it's Chinese, and cheap, doesn't mean it's bad. You just pay a lot more for euro/US stuff because you're adding in the middle man, who may well have bought most of the bases from China in the first place. The only reason i don't buy from there is because I was hit by customs on a cheap flash unit for my camera I bought a couple of years back. It was €40 thereabouts, and customs decided to check it and have their share - cost me an extra €15 odd between VAT and charges for the postie to deliver it from customs [wtf!?] I literally had to hand the postie the extra ... and that was after they held it for over 2 weeks!

I think the rule is anything over €22 can be had for VAT, customs charges and extras from outside the EU ... I may be wrong, but it's something like that. So you may be ok with orders below that amount, but I just couldn't be bothered. usually when i'm ordering I get as much as possible in bulk, to save on over priced postage. Rarely are my orders under €20

jamie72

Thecageyone wrote: »

Just because it's Chinese, and cheap, doesn't mean it's bad. You just pay a lot more for euro/US stuff because you're adding in the middle man, who may well have bought most of the bases from China in the first place. The only reason i don't buy from there is because I was hit by customs on a cheap flash unit for my camera I bought a couple of years back. It was €40 thereabouts, and customs decided to check it and have their share - cost me an extra €15 odd between VAT and charges for the postie to deliver it from customs [wtf!?] I literally had to hand the postie the extra ... and that was after they held it for over 2 weeks!

I think the rule is anything over €22 can be had for VAT, customs charges and extras from outside the EU ... I may be wrong, but it's something like that. So you may be ok with orders below that amount, but I just couldn't be bothered. usually when i'm ordering I get as much as possible in bulk, to save on over priced postage. Rarely are my orders under €20

I've suffered at the hands of customs before. For what it's worth, DHL will charge you a fortune, but an post seem to be a lot more lax with imports. I'd rarely see customs charges for anything below 100 euro.

Smidge

Are there any "walk" in shops in Dublin that sell decent liquid?

dubtom

Surprised no one has mentioned http://www.bargainvapour.com/,Irish and they have specials on 100ml of loads of flavours for €13.99, I've only tried HS Ry4,love it.

grindle

Probably because the prices in OP are way cheaper (20-40%) and OP is particularly focussed on price above all else. €13.99 for 100ml? Crazy money!

meoklmrk91

fannywart wrote: »

Hi all
New to the world of vapping.

Being a bit of a cheap skate, I was looking into cheap sources of e-liquid.

I found one Irish site:
http://www.e-shop.ie
2 euros /10 mls dekang flavours.

2 Chinese sites one :with 2$ shipping charge
and the other is free shipping
http://www.fasttech.com/category/1411/electronic-cigarettes
$15 dollars for 100mls :eek: of what appears to be dekang = 11.50 euros
Free shipping

and

http://www.uecigarette.com/e-liquid-e-juice/100ml-e-liquid.html

unknown to me Chinese brand of 100 mls of e liquid at a cost of euros 8 and $2 shipping on however much you order :eek:

I ordered some bits from uecigarette some dekang and some 100ml unkown chinese liquids
Ill let you know how it goes.

It would be nice to have this thread dedicated to the cheap skates in our community by including cost per x mls + postage cost, with some feed back on the product

Got some juices from e-shop.ie, very quick service in fairness, ordered yesterday afternoon and arrived this morning. Only one problem they sent one of my juices as coffee instead of strawberry, I emailed and they asked if I wanted to exchange which I do but I hope they don't think I'm paying for postage cause it was their mistake. Haven't tried any of the new juices yet but will post back when I do.

Also can anyone tell me what dekang is? Is it just a brand of juice or what? Thanks.

grindle

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Also can anyone tell me what dekang is? Is it just a brand of juice or what? Thanks.

It's the largest juice brand in the world I'd imagine, made in China. The McDonald's of ejuice - cheap and fairly bland but it'll do. Not unusual for people to be a big fan of one or two of their juices but you wouldn't find people being as bowled-over by the range as they are about Highbrow Vapors/T-Juice/[Insert Classy Juice Brand Here].
Regularly sold under a different name as a vendor's own-brand juice as well, but this is looked down upon for obvious reasons..

Mr. Chrome

Got 100ml of juice from e-shop a few months ago. It was the special offer 10ml bottles. Juice made me sick, ended up giving it away. E-shop refused to answer my emails. It definatly wasnt dekang and the way it made me sick I reckon the strength was way off.

meoklmrk91

grindle wrote: »

It's the largest juice brand in the world I'd imagine, made in China. The McDonald's of ejuice - cheap and fairly bland but it'll do. Not unusual for people to be a big fan of one or two of their juices but you wouldn't find people being as bowled-over by the range as they are about Highbrow Vapors/T-Juice/[Insert Classy Juice Brand Here].
Regularly sold under a different name as a vendor's own-brand juice as well, but this is looked down upon for obvious reasons..

Thanks for that I'll give it a go anyway and see if like it, I've been vaping wingnuts and mom and pops thus far. I knew that something had to be off 2.49 for a ten ml bottle.

Mr. Chrome wrote: »

Got 100ml of juice from e-shop a few months ago. It was the special offer 10ml bottles. Juice made me sick, ended up giving it away. E-shop refused to answer my emails. It definatly wasnt dekang and the way it made me sick I reckon the strength was way off.

Well he responded to my email but I have to say I was pretty shocked at how unprofessional the email was, we will see how it goes when he mails me back with regards to the exchange, like I said I won't be paying for postage.

meoklmrk91

grindle wrote: »

It's the largest juice brand in the world I'd imagine, made in China. The McDonald's of ejuice - cheap and fairly bland but it'll do. Not unusual for people to be a big fan of one or two of their juices but you wouldn't find people being as bowled-over by the range as they are about Highbrow Vapors/T-Juice/[Insert Classy Juice Brand Here].
Regularly sold under a different name as a vendor's own-brand juice as well, but this is looked down upon for obvious reasons..

What you said was exactly spot on, I find them quite bland, okay to get you through a spot of bother but certainly wouldn't be my go to juices.

eirewhite

Has anyone any updates on the getting juice from fasttech through customs issue? Id be interested to hear. At them prices id nearly stock up. Also having tried a few flavours from dekang and generally thinking it was pure poison, what are peoples thoughts on hangsen and that other brand on fasttech cpo was it? Or spc or something like that. .

Mr. Chrome

If you didn't like dekang you probably won't like hangsen. Try the liqua, its repackaged (doesn't come in a box) but its identical to what you would buy here.

Keep your orders under 22euros and you will be ok with customs and be prepared for a 3 to 5 week wait :-)

eirewhite

Mr. Chrome wrote: »

If you didn't like dekang you probably won't like hangsen. Try the liqua, its repackaged (doesn't come in a box) but its identical to what you would buy here.

Keep your orders under 22euros and you will be ok with customs and be prepared for a 3 to 5 week wait :-)

Jebus thats a long wait, especially for airmail. I noticed some liquids are saying ships in 3 days and some say otherwise. Do they wait untill they have there end sorted and ship all together or do they send your order in dribs and drabs?

grindle

eirewhite wrote: »

Jebus thats a long wait, especially for airmail. I noticed some liquids are saying ships in 3 days and some say otherwise. Do they wait untill they have there end sorted and ship all together or do they send your order in dribs and drabs?

If you did it all as one order they'll wait until the last item gets in. You also have a higher risk of getting nabbed for customs.

Try to keep every FT order under €20. Better to receive many small packages and not get robbed by the government.

eirewhite

grindle wrote: »

If you did it all as one order they'll wait until the last item gets in. You also have a higher risk of getting nabbed for customs.

Try to keep every FT order under €20. Better to receive many small packages and not get robbed by the government.

Ah bugger i put the order through last night.. Have many of u got nabbed for duty before? It said on the site if i used standard air mail the percentage of liquids that get stopped are less than 1%, but that the likes of fed ex would run a higher risk. So i just ran with that. Fingers crossed!

Mr. Chrome

If its a big (physicaly) package there is a good chance it will be pulled. They will ask to see a paypal receipt. If its under 22euro, you're ok.

eirewhite

Mr. Chrome wrote: »

If its a big (physicaly) package there is a good chance it will be pulled. They will ask to see a paypal receipt. If its under 22euro, you're ok.

Oh i might be in bother so, its about 130 quids worth lol. Do they usually slap a few pound on or seize it altogether?