Jun 28, 2010
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The first thing that strikes me about Smoking Everywhere is that they are the first site to actually inform potential customers that they need to be over their states legal smoking age to actually engage and use the Smoking Everywhere electronic cigarette. The second thing that strikes me is their live chat support pop-up, which appears as soon as you enter the site. This coupled with the e-mail / online form and toll free phone support makes for one of the best support systems for and Esmokes store.
This is about where the originality of the Smoking Everywhere product and website stops, although they offer a variety of actual products, which I am not sure what is what, they only offer 2 types of flavours, the standard tobacco and the menthol flavour. Shipping takes up to 5 working days, but on the plus side is free. They currently have a promotion for their starter kits at a low price of $49.99 each.
Smoking Everywhere is a Chinese brand of electronic cigarette that has been fairly highly visible in the United States since its launch with a very local presence by the company that have evidently gotten hold of the rights to market it. At about 130 bucks it is in the higher end of the market but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the look or the accessories you get with it. Apparently the steeper price point is associated with a higher end atomizer in this particular electronic cigarette that it said to produce greater quantities of vapor and be much more reliable than previous models. Having tested this electronic cigarette myself I have to say that it didn’t deliver on any of these promises. It is neither more prolific in the vapor production department, nor is it better at holding it’s charge, nor are its components of a higher caliber. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to review a great deal of electronic cigarettes and I have to say this one from Smoking Everywhere doesn’t really live up to the hype. As an e-cig that is priced over 100 dollars I could probably point to five other sub 100 buck brands that offer a superior product to this one. It seems that this is just your stock Chinese electronic cigarette that has been re-branded and marketed heavily to get as many people to buy it and make a quick buck while the company still can. Not the sort of business practices we want from out e-cig manufactures at all.
Do not buy this product. Mine arrived later than later and didn’t work, customer service are incompetent at best. I have to date had three replacements sent to my door all of which have one fault or another. From these three I have been able to salvage a reasonably okay electronic cigarette that is poor on vaporization, has a lousy battery life and tastes like utter crap. This is not what you need to help you quit smoking. You need this like you need a bullet in the head trust me. The stress of this whole experience has meant I’ve actually been smoking a lot more than I usually do and have wasted a lot of time and money as well in the process. If anyone can please tell me what electronic cigarette I can buy for less than what I paid Smoking Everywhere, one that actually does what it is supposed to do without breaking constantly then I will honestly give it a got. If not then I have to say this will be the last time I put my money in electronic cigarettes as the technology is just not there yet. Either that or greedy unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers are robbing us of our hard earned money and selling us their disposable crap. I am furious at this. You don’t expect to pay over one hundred dollars and get a complete pie of rubbish. I could have smoked the money and had a better time of it!
Avoid Avoid Avoid. Simple as that. Clever branding and pushy salesmanship aside, this is an overpriced and substandard product that needs to be given the widest berth possible. I feel for the smarmy sales rep at the local mall who was making a spectacle of this product. What bemuses me is that it actually worked quite well when I tested it there. I was happy with the hit and vapor production. It is when I got the damn thing home that the problems started. The battery was crap, the atomizer seemed never to work as it did in the demonstration at the mall, everything was different, almost as if I had taken a completely different product home with me. Which leads me to believe that that is actually what I did end up doing. That they gave me something else to try while I was there and then gave me this crap to take home after I had given them my money. Just to rub the whole thing in and make me even more sick with rage, when I went back the following day to return this thing to the guy at the mall where I bought it from, he and his stall has packed up shop and disappeared. If only I hadn’t paid cash then at least I would’ve been protected against the transaction and could’ve got my money back from the credit card company. Still you live and you learn. No more electronic cigarettes for me. This was my first and last experiment. Avoid Avoid Avoid.
This is either one shoddy product or a complete scam altogether. In response to the previous reviewer if you are looking for a brand that will do for you all you need it to and not con you out of your money I have three suggestions. Blu Cigs is probably the most affordable brand of the bunch. You get the most for your money and their customer service is great. Then there is Esmoke, they are higher end as far as pricing goes but they are made in America and you will probably get the most reliable and best constructed electronic cigarette from them, hands down. Third is Smoke Tip, they are middle ground, between Blu and Esmoke and come just as highly recommended as either of those brands. I have tried all three and funnily enough prefer Blu Cigs, which is the cheapest brand. It’s a matter of choice though as I don’t mind the three piece model electronic cigarettes and prefer the pen design to the one that actually resembles a real cigarette. So there you have it, don’t give up, hang in there and you’ll find something that works for you. Smoking Everywhere just haven’t done a good job but that will ultimately be reflected in where the company will be soon enough, you can only fool some of the people some of the time.