Hi!

I’m making the switch from disposables to refillables because of the ban and need some advice.

I am looking at getting the Geekvape Aegis Hero 3 pod mod kit.

Questions are, how long do the pods and coils last? Bear in mind that a 3500 puff iGet bar (horrible I know) lasts me about a week and a half. Would I need to change the wick?

I’m not looking at dessert flavours for my juice and just like the fruit flavours mostly.

What would be a good Nic content? To my understanding the disposables are 50mg/ml, is that a good place to start? I will be hopefully going down in Nic over time.

I am happy to mix my own nic juice, and have read the posts that contain the information about it, so i feel quite confident in doing so.

Any other advice would be appreciated as well!

So , we kind of follow the guidelines but they are do not have any?

The REAL Truth About Vaping!

I just moved to Australia and came to know about the ban on all the nicotine vapes, we are able to supposedly get a prescription for that idk why, can you guys recommend me whats the best place to get an online prescription and where to actually get the pod and liquids after that because supposedly pharmacies are clueless about this atm

Just a thanks to those who mentioned how good of an MTL tank it is. I packed it away a while ago thinking it was better for DTL but I dug it back out set it up with a bit more attention and damn it a great MTL tank. I’ve put it on a retired Abyss and feel like I’m retro vaping.

Catching a plane next week and haven't flown for years. Wanting to know if I'll get fined or somehow in any trouble? Either that or does anyone know if they're easy to buy in north QLD?

Federal budget papers released last Tuesday showed the estimated tobacco excise take had been slashed by $2.35 billion this year alone since December, a fall of 18.3 per cent.

The sudden revenue writedown, the second largest in all of the federal budget, has largely been caused by the deluge of illegally imported cigarettes that are openly on sale across Australia for in some cases as little as $15 a packet.

The fabulous profits to be made in the black market have led to increased violence between rival gangs, which has seen more than 50 smoke shops firebombed this year in Melbourne.

But over the medium term the shift to illegal smokes and vaping products is going to have a much bigger impact according to budget papers.

*edit*
Butler... didn't you offer up almost 200mil to fight vaping just last year? hmm?

source - https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/illegal-cigarette-and-vape-market-to-slice-125bn-off-federal-budget/news-story/809e3c68bb54b47620481f29d7fe2cf3

Recently forced into the prescription based vaping due to the new laws like many others and I travel non-stop for work so finding under the table stuff is tiresome walking into every tobacconist I pass by. They recommended the 'NicoVape' device which seems to be their personal Pod vape and its cheap rubbish at best that would've marketed for $15 before the bans. Anyone have recommendations about which devices are better quality that are offered by them? As they charge an additional fee (shocker) to change your prescription I dont want to continue going through testing them all.
The other options are:

RELX
Allo Sync
Wild by Instinct

Cheers,

Hey everyone,

Since there isn't much going on right now I thought I start a survey for fun

Describe the Store with one sentence:

Ace Vape:

Super Vape Store:

Victory Vape:

Vapoureyes:

Leafhouse:

Vapelink:

Wick & Wire:

Vape King:

Geelong Vape:

Vape World Australia:

So friends, questions

Assuming I run out of my 8 allocated times I can purchase nic products from QH before my script runs out of date. Can I apply for a new one with QRx or are they all linked together like QH and QMed?

AND

Does QRx have differing products from the other 2?

AND

Can I use my current script for QH for QRx?

Sorry - that became more questions than I expected.

Hello, I'm desperate as I'm on my last nicotine flavoured juice. I thought I had prepared and I bought my flavoured juice without nicotine from Australia and I got a prescription for what I thought was nicotine liquid that I could add to my flavoured juice. Now I've finally got my hands on some (it's SO hard to source anywhere), it seems I have non flavoured vape juice. I'm not sure I can mix it at all and it says I need a special device.
Can anyone please tell me if non flavoured nicotine liquid that I can add to my non nicotine flavoured vape juice actually exists?
If not, how is everyone else getting around this???? Are we all going cold turkey?

Hey guys,

Anyone having issues with quithero not providing you with a copy of your e script?

I’ve emailed but they told me I have to provide them with the name of chemist and what products I want to buy and they will contact them??!! What!!

I want a copy of my script on hand in case the boys in blue by any stretch pf the imagination question me!!

Hi all,

Just wanted to say thanks for being such an amazing community. After a long journey from mods, to disposables for way too long, me and my partner have finally switched to a pod / salts setup with the help of the guides from this community.

Feels a little serendipitous to go through this journey and get order 10000 on quithero. I don’t love the pharmacy model, but here we are. Hopefully there is some common sense and some well thought out deregulation.

They are sold out of concentrate, so trying a couple of pre mixed flavours, puk pods for my partner, plus ordered a couple of Xros minis from VE. Hopefully salt concentrate will be back in stock soon 🙏

Again, just wanted to say thank you to the whole community here.

Got this today.

Apologies for the email out of the blue – my name is xxx xxx and I’m a producer with the SBS television program, Insight. Thanks so much for taking the time to write into our post on Facebook about the program we’re in the early stages of working on exploring the government’s vaping reforms with some of your thoughts and reflections. It sounds like you have some really insightful and constructive points.

We’re in the early stages of researching an episode around this topic and I read your message with interest and was wondering if you would be open to an informal chat over the phone to hear a bit more about your perspective and reflections on this topic? It would all be entirely informal. We’re very much still in the early research phase and speaking with a range of people to help inform our knowledge of this topic.

Let me know if that’s something you would be open to and a time which suits for a chat.

Kind regards,

And replied:

What's your angle going to be? Vaping kills unborn children? Darth Vader created vapes?

Sorry but I'm quite sceptical that the media will do anything other than continue the negative narrative.

If it were a non biased episode I'd consider it.

No reply.

Hey, shit's fucked and it's getting worse.

TL;DR: the bill to outlaw vape stores has passed the House of Representatives and is bound for the Senate. If it passes the Senate, and it looks like it will, every single vape store in Australia (both brick and mortar and online) will be forced to permanently close down in a matter of months. Only an overwhelming campaign to contact Senators can stop this from happening now.

WHAT'S HAPPENING 

The last time I reached out like this a little over a month ago, I told you that one twat in Canberra has decided you shouldn't be allowed to vape and we shouldn't be allowed to sell you any vaping products, and that he's introduced a bill that will completely outlaw all vape stores, whether they're brick and mortar or online. 

The bad news is that the bill has now passed the House of Representatives, and is next bound for the Senate where it will face a final vote. Should that vote succeed, and every indication suggests that it will, Mark Butler will move to immediately close all vape stores — permanently.

A domestic retail ban would make it absolutely impossible for you to access the juices and hardware you use today, the only legal option will be to buy low strength pre-mixed flavourless, menthol, or tobacco-flavoured juice and extremely shitty pre-filled pod devices from pharmacies with a prescription — no exceptions. 

I really can't express to you just how serious this situation is. You may think that this will only be a temporary setback, or that you'll find some way around the ban so you can continue vaping, even if stores like Vapoureyes close. If you think that, you are wrong. Not only are black market products potentially dangerous, the border ban has already driven black market prices through the roof and reduced supply by more than 50%, and it's only two months old. A total retail ban would utterly destroy what little remains of the vape industry in Australia, and Butler has plans to go even further in the coming months.

Juices — gone. Mods — gone. Tanks — gone. Rebuildables — gone. Even raw flavour concentrates are being targeted — not finished juices, I'm talking about the raw ingredients that are used to make juice, the same concentrates bakers use to make cakes; the government is cracking down hard on the ability to import fucking food flavourings in their deranged campaign to deprive us of our rights. There's no surviving this, for us or for you.

HOW WE CAN STOP THIS TOGETHER

The Senate is our last chance to stop this insanity. The government controls the House of Representatives, and since they're the ones who introduced this bill it was always going to pass the House. But the government does not control the Senate, and if we can convince enough Senators to oppose this bill then the government will be forced to retreat and reconsider its options.

You know this spiel, because I've given it a hundred times already, but I implore you: even if you've contacted your Senator before, do it again right now. In fact, don't just contact your own Senator, contact all of them. And if you've never contacted your Senator, now is the time. It just takes five minutes to fire off an email, and we need absolutely everybody to participate if we stand any chance at all of stopping this.

Call, email, set up meetings, do whatever it takes to get your message in front of them and make them understand that your support of them is contingent on their support of your rights. We don't owe politicians our vote, they have to earn it, and this is their opportunity to show us that they actually give a shit what voters think.

Click here to find the contact details for your Senator and tell them not to support the vaping ban. Your rights depend on it.

Stay angry and be loud,

Savvas, Chris, Morris, and the whole Vapoureyes Australia team.

Hello, I am a student who has been in Australia for about 3 months. I ordered 5 boxes of snus to Australia, but after about 2 weeks, the seller told me that my order had been held by customs. Is there any way for me to get my order? I read on some websites that buying snus in Australia is not prohibited.

Hey knowledgeable people! It’s been 24 hours since I did my quit hero sign up and no response! Feeling a little stressed! Do you think I might run into issues as I listed my current medication- lisdexamphetamine? Thanks!

I'll be frank, there's a lot of anger being directed at disposable vapers when they turn up on r/aussievapers, this is understandable and whilst takeover of vaping communities with disposable vapes, and the dislike of disposables is worldwide, it is further polarised in Australia because of the government bans.

The vaping community is being penalised, micromanaged and IMO, oppressed as a minority of the population by the government.

However, disposable vapers, who make up the majority of vapers, are doing what most people do, following the path of least resistance. I'm not justifying it, but brow beating disposable vapers because they might not be as organised, conscientious or motivated as reusable vapers won't convince them to switch to reusables, it'll make them feel unwelcome and excluded.

A lot of disposable users don't even know about reusables. That is fundamentally caused by the state and federal governments' restrictions and bans that led to illegal and non-labeled 50mg/ml disposables being available everywhere.

Many disposable users who come here are receptive to reusables, they just need to be given some info about them, some suggestions, to make an informed decision, instead of being berated and not knowing why they are.

There's a lot of good here, people helping others and sharing info and insight, but there's also the negative side too, when the chips are down, it comes out.

Vapers are vapers, we must stand united against the government, then we'll have more of a chance of effecting a change of the laws, in the long term. 'United we stand divided we fall' and all that.

Alright, so I'm a noob when it comes to vapes, having used disposables ever since i started vaping but for the past couple of weeks every shop I go to either say they dont have disposables anymore or try to sell me shitty iGet bars for $50 bucks like wthhh!!!
So I've decided to finally get myself a kit and juice and since then discovered all the legal drama n tbh too much government infringement going on at the moment regarding vapes.

I need some help from the members of this community to know what I need to do to ensure my nic containing liquids don't get confiscated by customs or ABF??

TLDR: What documents/steps do i need to take to ensure ABF/customs doesnt seize my nic containing liquids coming from VapoureyesNZ?

TIA good people.

I received a seizure notice today for vape juice purchased before the March ban. I supplied a prescription to purchase the goods, and supplied the prescription again when customs asked for more information. They arrived in Australia before the ban in March. The juice ordered was within the prescription limits. However, in May when they seized the goods they reported they were “special forfeited goods”.

There is the option to make a claim for the return of seized goods if you believe they were seized incorrectly, however the notice also indicates that making a claim does not mean the goods will be returned to you.

It states: if the seizure is reviewed and considered lawful you should be aware that the Department of Home Affairs will be statutorily obliged to commence legal proceedings in order to obtain an order for goods to be declared as special forfeited goods and condemned to the Crown. IN BOLD TEXT it states: this can be a costly process and the ABF will seek to recover legal costs from you.

(This sub doesn’t allow for me to upload a picture and I don’t know how to get around that so I added some of the text from the letter above)

As title, where can i get these in the future? I am not local, and have been using RELX for years (their ice black tea flavour is my all time vape). I used to have a regular supplier when i am here in Sydney. But due to the strict regulations, they are unable to restock from overseas anymore. I have checked Relx Oceania Official Website, most of the flavour sold out. I really like their flavour which is not too heavy, and their cooling sensation is very different to refillable vape liquids.

Hi all. I was wondering which site I should use that doesn't require a driver's license or passport?

I'm done with vaping mostly.

The new laws didn't help anyone. Bogan turned his back on us and now I refuse to watch or buy any of his products. The big Australian shops and companies remained pretty quiet, barring a few very vocal owners ( not Mo).

The greed showed by people with money when the ban was looming, people just buying out entire stocks from places they never did before because the shop was selling up to close it's doors. And then having the gaul to whing that packages were taking longer than 3 days to arrive.

Ill even say it's disgusting seeing how disposables are treated too. I understand it I do, but then a lot of places in NZ and here started stocking them without being called out. Was it because they were made by dinner lady?

I've just opened my eyes to how toxic this community is. Vaping is the only way to get off cigarettes, there's no ill side effects from vaping, vaping is 100% safe are all quotes I see constantly and voicing an opinion opposing that gets you chastised.

I've got a few packs of coils, some bottles of juice and a bit of nic left but I won't be restocking anything as I've had more success with nicotine pouches and that's what I'll be sticking with in the future.

I just got a new igett bar, it is an absolute bitch to pull. Never had an issue until now, but it takes an excessive effort to pull it, any clues why

I purchased a script from quithero. They seem to be out of nicotine, is there anyway I can download my script and is there any other place online where I can safely get some Nicotine? Any help would be appreciated.

There is a petition for the personal importation of vaping products that would be beneficial for the vaping community. The more petitions that go through the stronger voice we have. Please sign the petition and share with anyone else that has been affected by these new laws.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6174

As above, any issues at customs?