Dudes and Dudettes,

After much reflection over the past few months, the time has come for me to "hang up the gloves" and retire from reviewing vaporizers.

What I'm referring to specifically are the formal review videos and write-ups for individual products, I'm retiring from doing those for the foreseeable future.



This may come as a shock to many of you, and to some it's a wish come true. I really don't plan on going anywhere though and this whole vape business is still my livelihood.

I won't say I'm retiring from reviews for eternity, but it's going to take some serious innovation in the vape industry to get me excited about doing what I used to do and bring me back into it again.

WHAT ABOUT THE FORUM?

I will still be participating in the forum and sharing my thoughts about any products I decide to buy, my posts will just be more candid and informal, I'm just a citizen now! :sweat: The plan is, hopefully, that I will be posting more as a result of this.

Besides, you guys are the real reviewers on here! I still encourage you all to share your thoughts and opinions on all the vapes and products you try, that's the real value that people get out of this forum.

To anybody who wants the opinion of a douche who's tested 99.7% of all vapes in existence over the last 10 years, I'm happy to share my thoughts on new products. But for extremely detailed reviews and breakdowns of any specific vapes I'm leaving that up to you guys.

Renewed focus for the purpose of the forum:

I will post more about this in a separate thread, but one of the questions that's come up quite a few times over the years by members is "What is the purpose of this forum?". After much thought, I think it makes the most sense to make the VapeLife Forum the #1 go-to source for the Latest Vape & MJ News and happenings. This is of course in addition to all of the great reviews, tips and tricks you guys should keep posting here.

I've realized one of the main values I personally get from this forum is how quickly new information is surfaced, and how everything posted by you guys is really the "latest news" about products, companies, and the industry in general.

There will be an effort on my part to curate this news and make it easy to read and discuss. Anyway, more about this later, but I feel a renewed sense of purpose for the forum is the point I'm trying to get across :sweat:

YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND LIVESTREAMS

I really haven't come to a decision on this, as far as whether or not to continue posting any youtube videos while I'm "retired". If I did post any more videos they would either be vape news, industry updates, or just bullshitting about whatever's pertinent at the time. I'm really uncertain :groan:

Livestreams TBD - Same feelings as the videos, do I still do these? :chin:



I guess what I'm saying is that I haven't figured out how to handle the video/stream situation yet. I have a feeling the videos and streams won't stop, I generally enjoy doing them, it's just a matter of coming up with a system that's comfortable and makes sense.

GREAT, WHAT ABOUT THAT FUCKIN G43?

Well I took it in the A$$ from all angles on this one. Things started out great last year when I was ramping things up but it quickly starting turning sour. Mainly manufacturing problems and quality control with the custom glass parts that had to be manufactured.

In my last G43 update I was super confident that the supplies were in to build almost ~200 Sled G43's, which was to be the next iteration coming from the Mod version.

Bad news, I only spot-checked the first sample shipment of ~20 glass slides and they were perfect, the other ~180 that arrived shortly after are not built to spec, the vaporizer literally can't be built because of it.

Getting money back or having any parts reproduced is out of the question at this point, the ship has sailed on that one and I'm back at square one with nowhere to reliably source custom parts from. A problem equally as challenging has been the amount of time it takes to produce each unit.

I'll post a better G43 update soon in another thread, but I wanted to let any of you know that are waiting for the Mod version that I still have you on my list in the order you requested and will be reaching out as soon as I physically am able to build your unit. I'm still able to produce a few dozen of these.

The future of the G43 is still in question, but perhaps I can spend more time in the lab and make something even better, we will have to wait and see how things unfold.



I'm anxious to post this thread, I know the response will be mixed and I appreciate anything you have to say, just don't be mean! :cool:

Peace and love!

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