From Chris

Hey there Phil,

I don’t normally send out e-mails to folks I watch youtube videos of. Usually seems
fairly pointless because most of what I watch is parodies of music videos using
various games, gameplay footage, and people fishing for squirrels.

To start, I’ve been a fairly heavy smoker since I was twelve. Got caught and quit
until I was eighteen. When I started back up, I was barely a quarter pack a day.
Now, I’m 25, I’m anywhere from three quarters of a pack to two packs a day depending
on the day of the week. In the last seven years, I’ve tried quitting seventeen
different times. Tried cold turkey, tried gum, patches, lowering my limit. Nothing
was working. The longest I went without a cigarette was -about- two days. Even on
the patch and gum, I still snuck in a quarter to half a cig if I was -really-
stressed.

Last year, I started getting into electronics. Specifically- The Blu, sold at the
Walgreens I used to work at. My attempted migration to the Blu netted me a good
three weeks without the real thing. But it was missing something- vapor. Part of
what makes/technically still makes smoking an enjoyable experience for me is being
able to just blow clouds when I’m stressed. Something to focus on that isn’t just
what’s in front of me.

A buddy of mine that I play EVE Online with that works for Gator Vapor out of
Florida (www.gatorvapor.com) was posting pictures of some… Rather impressive
clouds. The likes of which I’d have assumed would have been following some sort of
explosive. He started telling me about “vaping,” and I started asking him all sorts
of questions. How does it work, how expensive is it, how close is it to “the real
thing,” for… Well. The smoking equivalent of your V-T-F.

He pointed me to the VAMO V2 on the Gator Vapor website, and, being someone that
likes to know things about things that maybe other people wouldn’t know… I fired
up my GoogleFu (Yes. GoogleFu. Like Kung-Fu but with Google.) I saw a lot of product
reviews, but all of them were static photos and typed out over god knows how long.
Started losing interest fairly quickly.

Watching your review on youtube for the VAMO sealed the deal. Your obvious
enthusiasm for the reviews you do really shows through consistently throughout
the… Well. I’ve been watching your videos since monday, learning as much as I can
before my VAMO arrives.

As a heavy smoker whose repeated failed attempts are starting to catch up with him,
thank you for doing video reviews that are as entertaining as they are educational.
Being able to learn about the product itself, see how its’ assembled, know what to
expect from it, and actually seeing it in use make it significantly easier to at the
very least open the door. Keep up the reviews, whether they’re good or bad. Maybe
I’ll be able to get in on one of your contests at some point as well.

Thanks to what I’m learning about vaping from APV’s as opposed to E-Cigs, I’m
significantly more confident about being able to make a more seamless transition.
There are people I work with as well that are curious about vaporizers and I’m
already pointing them to your videos because they’ve been the most educational to
me.

My VAMO and iClear30 will be arriving in the mail in less than 12 hours. I hope to
be sending you a ‘success story’ at some point, but regardless of my outcome, I
still thank you for the time you put into your videos, and your devotion to -what-
you do.

Chris