Is FastTech going SlowTech?

They are creating serious waves in the e-cig world with their pricing - you thought NiteCore gate was nasty, Innokin really threw the rattle out of the pram. They are selling metric bum burgers worth of e-cig kit now and the service has slipped of late due to the increased load.

You’ve probably seen this before, but wow, look at this bold statement!!
http://www.innokin.com/news/company/2013/0606/395.html

yep I am an ecig user and on the forums etc…they got innokin products from a different source so were able to sell them pretty low…my latest package they sent sing post was an innokin product…really good price on some of the stuff…

Wow, so much criticism for doing us a favor...

Insert <I don't want to live in this world anymore meme> here.

whothewhatnow?

If you're talking about switching from HKPost to SingPost with no notice, it's not a favor if it triples the shipping time. Some places on the planet may get faster service through SingPost, and of course, they should use whatever's fastest depending on the destination whenever possible. I have no problem with them using SingPost for places where it's quicker than HKPost. My issue is when they make a change that takes the one week transit time and turns it into three weeks.

edit: oh great. Somebody didn't close the <i> tag and now everything below that is in italics.

edit2: LOL fixed xD

Yeah, I was focusing on the fact that FT was selling items way below the MSRP, but in turn got a lot of heat from manufacturers.

I think they have yet to explain why they are using SingPost on regions where HKPost is clearly faster, except with the case of li-ion batteries. (Weird, they shipped my 18650’s via HKPost this week.)

Auto-italics? Is this a bug?

awe i wanted to be the one to save the day from the evil italics

Wow, that was weird. :slight_smile:

yeah pretty sure it was the American and Canadian vendors that are forced to sell MAP that complained…can’t really blame them, but as a customer I like the savings lol

Were you saying something? :smiley:

:bigsmile:

she reintroduced the italics to the thread!!

I just realized everything, including our user names, is in italics! :open_mouth:

Edit: and now in bold!

muhahahahaha

I didn't know that Innokin company before, but they don't make a great first impression to me.

So, FT sells their items below MSRP, and in return they accuse FT of selling fake products... IMO this alone would be enough for FT to file a lawsuit against THEM.

Posting statements like this on the web can cost you a lot of money if you are wrong. Even if you're right, but can't prove anything ;)

China doesnt work like that, they don’t like how the business is done by this vendor or that manufacturer but they all like to do business and that is their and they will do anything to grab as much customers they can. Lawsuits and such is apple’s/us style of “making” business…

Anyway, shipping via HKPO was best way (8-13 days from ordering to my doorsteps) until about two months ago, then, cuple of my packages (and not only my other pepole from Serbia had identical problem) ended up stuck at HKPO for almost a month. After that we all prefered SGPO, even CN was better. Now, it seems we have identical problem, many people from Serbia are complaining that their packages left HKPO almost a month ago but they still didn’t arrive!!!

Just made another recent order and it took about 10 days. I live in SF, CA so packages get to me quick.

That’s what I did.

They said they hadn’t got it. I said you did and sent tracking number. They said # wasn’t valid- I may have left off two numbers…. re sent it- and reminded them they had a jpeg of the receipt that I uploaded to get them to refund my shipping (which they had the prior week). Next email was a few hours later and told me they’d be sending it out right away. Looks like Miami might not be that tightly of a run ship.

With something like e-vape where you are directly inhaling the product, a little caution might be a good thing. Is anyone actually considering the possibility that these may actually be fakes?
Steve, you make a very good point that a manufacturer should not just make bold statements like this without being confident in the claim. Here’s my point; what if they are confident in that statement?
When it comes to flashlights, I can handle receiving a fake that initially looks like the real thing. For a product that could have health risks, I’d exercise caution when advised by the product’s manufacturer.
Just my two cents.

Relic, you are perfectly right that one should be cautious with health-relevant products.

However, pounder in post #44 wrote that he actually bought one of these products and and he didn't sound like he received a counterfeit product.

This reminded me a bit of that thread where xtar claimed to have located and destroyed a whole lot of fake xtar chargers, but nobody did answer questions like how to distinguish a fake one from the real deal. Some members came to the conclusion that they were not fake chargers, but rather purchased through unofficial channels to obtain low prices, which the manufactury didn't like.

Now I'm not saying this is the same case here, I have by far not enough insight in the whole matter to make such a statement. I just heard so many lies from chinese companies that I'm very sceptical about believing anything they say