Vitamin Cig (fka VCIG)

[rane]

I haven't posted in a while. Here is an email I just sent to Matt over at mCig/Vitacig. I make some market / product / competitor comments.

to Matthew

That's great news. I'm getting more excited about these (vitacig kits) because the rebranded lazy pen is a real piece of shit. Yep. its so bad I need to say it full on. I told you the rubber button on their product broke after 4 hrs and we taped it with electrical tape to keep it working. Now the liquid tank is not working properly and leaking just after a few uses. So I am looking forward to this shipment with the expectation your products will be an easy upsell when compared to the lazy pen. You know the crazy thing is, the ecig/vaping market is so good right now, I think I can still sell his stuff even after pointing out the flaws...and do it for a profit even.

I also want to reiterate the idea of developing a dry herb mod for the vitacig non-disposable pens. While I don't really like the lazy pen, having the dry herb mod is attractive and I would consider it the lazy pen's only desirable feature.


An update about the flea market effort.

Our first month we did almost $800 in sales. Today's sales almost covered our monthly rent. I expect we will get better and eventually be able to make our monthly rent in one day (or less). Chris made some great mcig sales today with some customers whose circle of friends will probably like it and come around to buy one themselves. I think we will be able to develop a following so by the time the holidays are over and the flea market traffic dies out we will still get customer flow as word gets out. I have decided the $20-$25 price point is perfect based on the reactions we get at the booth so far and I get more confident with each sale that we are onto something.

We had a previous vitacig customer come around today asking if we had the juices yet. They said they would try and make it back next weekend when we are stocked. Finally, with optimism building about this little mcig / vitacig project. I am going to try and go to Daytona and set up for a month. I talked with a guy who has a booth credit over there and I think I can use this to try the Daytona market since I don't have the papers to do it directly. Everyone says its better than the Sanford market so we hopefully will get a chance to make it over and try it out this month. Maybe even next weekend.

So, in all Matt, I would have to say as far as I can tell things are moving in a positive direction.

Here is our instagram feed. It shows a little of what is going on at the shop.

http://instagram.com/hazybotanicals?modal=true#

rane