Throwback Thursday is a back after a two-week vacation.
This is part of project I agreed to take on after it was pointed out that so many of the resources in sidebar and wiki are ancient. The idea is, rather than revising them myself, I'd post them here once per week to gather feedback on how to improve them. They belong to all of us, everyone should have a say in what they say.
This post giving a Simple DIY Example and Price Breakdown is in our current DIY Beginner's Guide and it was an awesome contribution... when it was posted... FIVE YEARS AGO.
That is an eternity in DIY e-Juice years.
It's so chock-full of outdated nonsense to such an extent that I'm not even going to reprint it here. However, a simple example with a price breakdown like this could be of great value so someone who's considering mixing their own juice for the first time.
We need a someone to step up and rewrite this in 2018 terms. The betterment of mankind might be motivation enough for some, but a contest will a real prize seems to motivate even more.
And what of that prize? In addition to having your work immortalized in the DIY Beginner's Guide and being showered with the appreciation and admiration of your peers, I'll personally offer you the same tokens of appreciation given to the Monthly Clone Challenge MVPs: A month of reddit gold, customized flair of your choosing in this subreddit, a flavor of your choice ordered and sent to you from a flavor house of your choice, and a $10 donation to a reputable charitable organization of your choice made in your honor. Clone Challenge MVPs are having to choose one of these prizes, but you will get them all. In fact, I'll go ahead and double the monetary ones. That's 2 months of gold, two flavors, and a $20 donation. Plus the flair. And immortality, appreciation, etc.
How to enter: Rewrite that old post and use "Simple DIY Example and Price Breakdown" for your title. YOU MUST USE THAT EXACT TITLE. Post it in this subreddit sometime in the next 7 days. Deadline: Noon, CST, Thursday, one week from today. At that time, I'll post a contest mode-enabled thread with a comment section that's just links to each entry. At the end of another week, the entry with the most upvotes (in the contest thread, not on the actual post) will take the prize.
Don't want to enter but do what to help make the DIY Beginner's Guide's "Simple DIY Example and Price Breakdown" better? Take this time to offer advice to potential contestants about what's wrong with the 5-year-old version and what you think should be in a new and improved version. Or maybe open up your wallet and increase the size of the prize.
Am I going to lose marks for spelling words correctly using U in flavour?
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I'll happily try and contribute by updating it but I'll need some help with US pricing and vendors if anyone can help?
I posted something but I'm sure one of these whipper snappers will out shine my modest offering.
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So, i'll chip in $10 and I'd even be willing to throw in an extra 10ml of my September Mixer's club submission with postage. You know, as payback for winning, you have to hate vape my failure.
I like the side bar tho some stuff may be dated. any effort to improve what's there is love. thank you
The BIGGEST issue is so many flavorings cost is varied not just by vendor but sales/ shipping/ discounts/ reseller/ vendor complicate calculation.
If I could find the time, which I probably won't TBH. I would do bull city, wizard labs, and a 3rd highly rated vendor. Then you have liquid barn and the likes that you can only get thru them but not much else. It's a complicated and inaccurate at any given time.
Realistically, though, flavoring is one of the lowest costs per ml. Unless you go buying medicine flower and flavor monks like crazy... and even then... Of course, there's the issue of size of bottle, various sales, shipping is usually a major cost unless buying from a local supplier (although usually there's free shipping on large enough orders so if you assume a large enough purchase...) There's a whole lot of issues, really. But for the most part, cost of flavor per ml of finished juice is really quite small.