I went from rationing my juice and taking it easy because it can get expensive, to not being able to wait for my tank to run out so I can try another one of my many delicious flavors. A trained monkey can make his own juice I feel bad for anybody still getting ripped off by ludicrous prices. Thanks to all of you that helped me out!
Ripped off is going a bit far... There are manufacturing costs and profits to consider with vendors. People have to make money right. Not every vaper wants to diy either. Even if they do buy from a vendor, chances are they're still spending considerably less and breathing better than when they used analogs
Not a vendor, but I do buy from them, and do diy as well
You aren't being ripped off if you simply do not want to do that work.
Example: Most people could cut their own grass, but still many people rather pay a lawn service to do that very task. They aren't being ripped off, they are paying for a service.
In any hobby, before crying "ripoff" over a commercial equivalent, you've gotta think "if I paid myself $8-10/hr, how much would my hobby time earn me?".
That's ultimately why I don't try and sell my chainmail jewelry anymore, I'd need to put more time (with higher efficiency) into it than I could tolerate. It wouldn't be fun anymore.
I don't know why more people don't understand that labor is primarily what you're paying for, not the end product, though the end product is certainly factored into the cost of labor.
I grow some of my own vegetables, but recently downsized to just my chile peppers as that's what I most enjoy from my hard work. I could grow all of my own, but I chose to use my time elsewhere. Am I being ripped off because I'm buying something that to some degree just grows on its own out of the ground? No. You only are being ripped off if you more easily can do the work than buy the product. Because not everybody has invested time in learning even a simple process, experience of others is worth the price if consistency and quality are better.
Love it. Now I actually "lose" bottles all the time and don't bother looking for them. I'll just whip up another batch and end up with perfectly steeped juice all over the place. :P
Brilliant. Whenever you get bored of a flavor you just have to shuffle some stuff around and find some perfectly steeped juice.
Exactly! I'll also just leave juice around like in my glove box. It has saved my butt many times when myself or my brother has forgotten juice. I would never have done that before for fear of the juice getting cooked or permanently lost. When we're talking dimes per bottle though, who cares. :)
Is it bad I sometimes will pour out the last ~5 ml's of juice just so I can try a different recipe?
Just get a dripper, I always carry two similar but different flavors so I can swap when I get bored. :)
I do use a dripper lol and usually make up about a dozen or so flavors at a time and have them sitting on my desk. still need more bottles tho :)
I hear ya, I can't remember any sites to buy bottles off the top of my head, but if you dig around on here I think you can get glass with dropper tops for like 40 cents a piece.
Edit: Here they are, I think the green looks sick personally. http://ecigdisplays.com/bottles/?p=2
Some vendors make amazingly good juices that are very very complicated to make. Suicide Bunny's Mother's Milk is a top of the line juice that is worth every cent.
Yes I concur. Some people and companies can take it to an extremely premium and complicated level as far as flavor and recipe. I see the problem as everyone who makes juice and sells it as saying their juice is premium shit though and charging a lot. For me at least I'll just be making my own with the exception of tasting a few out that I may hear really are premium.