I thought I’d experiment with POD systems. YouTube reviews quickly led to Vaporesso and VooPoo brands. But then finding those products in the USA market is a challenge. The few places I find these brands don’t have the replacement Pods or coils. The brands have a wide range of Ohms, yet most vendors show “out of stock” on all or most options.
So what’s going on? The market seems flooded with manufactures, but the USA supply chain seems weak. Are the manufacturers doing a poor job of getting the goods out there? Or are many of these products just a “flash in the pan” that will soon disappear when initial inventories are sold out?
Did you try Element Vape? They’ve got the Vapopresso XROS pods in stock. I just ordered a bunch before I went to Australia a couple of weeks back-Also just checked their site and it shows in stock, as well as their VooPoo offerings. I’m using the XROS 3 with the 0.8 ohm mesh coils. Decent little device!
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The xros pods are always OOS bec of demand. Ive had that issue from the start. I talked to an american distro about it and they said the top pods. Xros/caliburn sell just as fast and well as disposables in America
So, the demand just far outweighs the supply that china can give us? Maybe but i think its shipping from china to the states. It always causes issues and takes fooooorever
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Thanks for the replies. I had checked ElementVape for the VooPoo, and that was one with no 0.6 or 0.8 coils in stock. Some others that I checked a week ago for Vaporesso also had no pods in stock, or at least the 0.80 Ohms. Now some do show stock. So, looks like DanielTheVapeMan’s comment about popularity may be part of the problem. Hard to tell what’s hot and what’s not.
I hate to invest in a system and then discover in a few months that no pods/coils are available. But I guess that’s the name of the game. I ordered the Vaporesso XROS Pro from Vaporfi.com. That order sat in “shipping soon” mode for 7 days, and now has been “out for delivery” for 3 days. Looks like smoke and mirrors.
The VooPoo system looks interesting in that one model has an MTL style drip tip. But, “My Gawd”, VooPoo has 5 different “Series” of products, and the Drag series alone has 34 different models. How can the market possible support that much complexity?
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Just lame ass marketing. Many China vendors are like that to some degree. Hellvape Dead Rabbit is catching up.
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Vaporesso isn’t flash in the pan but only a handful of vaping devices have FDA approval in the US which causes its own supply chain issues. Their website shows no FDA-related activity since 2021.
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