why so expensive?

[bhouncy]

Why are vaporizers so expensive? The Volcano is going for over $500... surely it's just a heater with some plastic attachments?

bhouncy Reviewed by bhouncy on 09-25-2009. why so expensive? Why are vaporizers so expensive? The Volcano is going for over $500... surely it's just a heater with some plastic attachments? Rating: 5

[Mr. TBAGU 420]

No clue bro, honestly i'd rather spend a good $300 on a nice glass bong imp:

[Islandborn]

cause they are all fancy schmancy and relatively few smokers have them I suppose. The light headed feel ya get when ya hit one is new, but worth 500 bucks..... hell no. By a ROOR bong and call it a day.

[rebgirl420]

Yeah I think it's the novelty of it.

Though it is better for you to smoke from a vape but I myself would rather buy a nice piece of glass. Maybe a nice bong or a sweet spoon pipe.

[bhouncy]

I wonder how many they sell a year. The markup must be massive.

[Islandborn]

My skanky sister- in- law used to date a dude that owned a smoke shop and believe it or not ,the markup is minimal compared to everything else in those stores. If ya got extra cash, by a Vapo, why not. Looks nice and classes up a smoke session to some. Just dont show up with anything with seeds and stems and you will be fine. I cant even find schwag anymore in S. Texas.

[bigred5]

they are so expensive cuz they are so nice...

[dumblazystoner]

Is it because people are willing to pay that much for them?

[bhouncy]

Is it because people are willing to pay that much for them?

People are willing to buy snake oil so I guess it might be that.

Fuck it... I'm going to build my own.

[jimmy8778]

you know if your a mister fixit type of guy, you could probably create a vaporizor that works better than the volcano. pretty much what it is is a system of a ceramic heating element which is designed to allow air to flow over it and reach a stabalized temperature, then it is directed into a cup and a bag fill system. you could buy the bag system which is really useful, and adapt your own designs to it. and as a handyman you could even create a better product that hold the temperature more evenly, and doesnt experience the fluctuations, or actually reads the temperature more accurately than the volcano. its just about putting your mind to it. the temperature control is really just a potentiometer that controls the voltage to the coils. imagine a hot glue gun with a temperature guage and a fan. that is a basic vaporizer in its own sense. you could buy a volcano and take off the cover and see how basic it really is and then you would understand. as for the digital ones, a little more work, but they do sell laser thermometers which you could fashion into a readout for your home-made vape. i myself have thought about looking into creating one myself. i like the knob style control, but i hate the numbers, i wish it read as a temperature reading like an oven rather than like a guitar amp. the least they could have done was make it so you can crank your volcano up to 11 and really rock out.