12 Ways to Spot Fake Vape Juices: A Guide for Vape Shop Owners
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Just like with luxury brands, the biggest companies in vaping suffer from their products being poorly replicated by unauthorized factories. These counterfeit vape juices have invaded the market and become extremely common. This is why it’s important for vape shop owners to be able to tell original vape juices apart from fake vape ones.
Table of Contents:
- Are Counterfeit E-Liquids a Real Problem?
- Why Vape Shop Owners Should Know How to Spot Fake Vape Products
- How Can I Spot Fake Vape Juices?
- Conclusion
Are Counterfeit E-Liquids a Real Problem?
Vaping, just like any other industry, is burdened by counterfeit vape products and most of the time these products look identical to the real products they mimic. Whether they try to imitate the brand with brand names that sound the same but are spelled differently or they try to pass off fake products as authentic, fake vape juices are a real problem to the health of the vaping community and the image of the industry at large.
It is these counterfeit vape juices which carry unknown ingredients that end up hurting vapers. Unlike factories that follow good manufacturing practices and are ISO certified,
many times fake vape juices are made in less than optimal environments where pollutants, contaminants, and other materials make their way into the vape juice and are bottled in the final product.
Why Vape Shop Owners Should Know How to Spot Fake Vape Products
Because these fake vape juices carry potentially hazardous ingredients, it’s important for vape shop owners to always be on the lookout for counterfeit eliquids. Just imagine if one of your clients were to be sold fake vape juice, you would not only put their health in danger, you could lose their business and risk gaining a bad reputation in your local vaping community, ultimately putting your business at risk.
How Can I Spot Fake Vape Juices?
There are many things you can do as a vape shop owner to minimize the risk of buying and selling fake vape juices. Below, we go over some of the most important things to look out for if you aren’t sure if the vape juices you have are genuine even if they have been made by a real manufacturer:
- Is the vendor you are buying from reputable? VapeRanger works directly with vape juice manufacturers, often sending the products directly from their warehouses.
- When buying in bulk, is the deal too good to be true? Often these deals are too good to be true for a reason.
- Is the brand well known? Have you heard about it and read reviews?
- Does the brand have a website? Does it look professional?
- If you have bought products from the brand before, put the vape juices you believe are fake against the vape juices you know are real and compare them:
- Is there discoloration on the label? Are the markings poorly printed? This could be a sign that they are fake.
- Are warning signs or labels missing?
- Is the brand name spelled correctly?
- Is the logo different?
- Are the boxes they came in different?
- In most states, vape juices need to have child-resistant caps in order to be sold. Vape juices or eliquids that don’t have these caps could be fake.
- Often, original and authentic vape juices come with plastic films around the cap. If they are missing, this could be a tell-tale sign that the product is fake.
- What does the vape juice color look like? Vape juices without nicotine should be clear and those with higher nicotine content should be darker.
- Check the legal label requirements for the state where you reside; does the bottle labeling have all the necessary information and warnings?
- Open one of the bottles and test for yourself. If they taste weird, smell odd, or make you nauseous, chances are that the vape juices are fake.
- Visit the manufacturers' website. Often, they will have a whole section dedicated to teaching customers and clients how to identify authentic products from fake ones (Naked 100, for example, uses QR codes, batch and expiration dates on the label and box, and will use child-resistant caps. To check out the authentication section of their website, click here).
- When in doubt, contact the manufacturer. Many times, they have hotlines dedicated to helping you assess if the product is real or fake.
Conclusion
Perhaps the most important thing to do to prevent buying fake vape juices is to work directly with your vendors to ensure that the product you will receive is genuine. Don’t choose your vendors based on low prices, but rather on their reputation in the industry. This will ensure you always get original vape juices.
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