E-cigarette Scam Warning Signs

E-cigarette scams can be spotted, if you know what to look for. Here are the main warning signs you might be getting ready to be ripped off!

Fake News Sites

Many companies use fake news sites to trick you into thinking you are reading an actual impartial news report. Many of these sites are very slick and look just like legitimate news organizations. Most tend to mimic the look of a television station and may even use actual news footage videos and even weather and sports reports to complete the look. Some even use the pictures of real reporters:

Electronic Cigarette Advertorial "health writer" Jennifer Miller	Real French Anchorwoman Mellisa Theuriau of LCI

Do not be fooled. These are not real news reports or real news reporters.

Some even go so far as to actually admit that at the bottom of the site in their disclaimer that most people do not read:

It is important to note that this site and the comments/answers depicted above is to be used as an illustrative example of what some individuals have achieved with this/these products. This website, and any page on the website, is based loosely off a true story, but has been modified in multiple ways including, but not limited to: the story, the photos, and the comments. Thus, this page, and any page on this website, are not to be taken literally or as a non-fiction story.

From various websites featuring reports by "Jennifer Miller"

Limited Time Offer

Act now!! This limited time offer expires in two days!! This is one of the oldest tactics in the book. Why? Because it works. Urgency is the lifeblood of scam artists and con men and these offers are no different. Often times they will have a countdown timer or two that show you exactly how many minutes you have left to take advantage of this amazing offer.

Don't fall for it. While legitimate sellers may offer limited time specials or coupons, these guys make a living out of convincing you that you must act now.

Free Trial

Nothing is free. That free trial offer is just a rouse to get you to sign up for their auto delivery system and for them to get your credit card so they can sign you up for their other offers. It's all in the fine print, but how many actually read that?

Usually the free trial period starts the moment you place your order and by the time you actually get your products, if you ever do, your 10 or 14 day trial has already used up 5 -7 days.

Legitimate sellers usually offer a 30 day money back guarantee anyway. So which is better? 14 days or 30? Forget the free trial scams and go with a real company.

Get your Free Electronic Cigarettes Here! Free E Cigarettes!

Free Electronic Cigarettes for all!!! Act now and get your own Free Trial ecigarette with no risk, pay only shipping! Yeah, uh huh.... what does that remind you of? What's sad is that it seems this actually works sometimes, people actually believe they are going to get a great electronic cigarette for free. Until they get it and reality sets in.

All these offers for Free E Cigarettes are literally driving me mad. You can't go anywhere these days without running across some ad for a free trial ecig: and you can't visit any consumer protection website without seeing the hundreds of complaints about them. I hear people's horror stories daily. But the moment Brand X gets a bad name for themselves or is banned from Google it's Insto, Chango, Presto!!! They are suddenly the "new" Brand Y the greatest brand ever!

Before you buy eciq, read this important eciq Report. Ecigs Revealed!!! It's the same old scam internet marketers have been using for years with tooth whitening, acai berry, diet pills, you name it and someone has ran a free trial scam for it. The truth of the matter is simple:

Free Electronic Cigarettes are worth exactly what you pay for them, well, what they say you'll pay for them anyway. In reality they are cheap $5 wholesale cost versions that they then charge you $60 - $150 bucks for, plus shipping, plus their overpriced auto ship cartridge program, plus this, plus that. They are all basically the same. Hell, some of them are all sold out of the same call center by the same professional "marketing company" that is more than happy to slap your logo on their cheap ecig box and sell sell sell! 

Am I saying all free ecig offers are a scam? No, I'm sure theres one out there that isn't, I just have not seen one I believe yet. And before all you free trial guys start posting comments about how I'm just jealous you are all outselling the brands I feature here and how i'm just a disgruntled competitor out to ruin your "good name" and how you are the "most respected leader in the industry" and will have your attorney shut me down asap, stop, don't bother. You don't fool me or anyone else. Me thinks he doth protest too much.

The reason all this really irks me is also very simple: Electronic Cigarettes are just too important to become the latest scam fad. They help too many people. They have too much potential to revolutionize smoking forever. And each and every time those "free" ads run, each and every time a consumer files a complaint it just gives the FDA, the FTC and everyone else more reason to say "See look, ecig marketers are scumbags who must be stopped." You give all of us a bad name, and yes, that makes me angry.

OH, and please stop sending me emails asking if I'd like to sell your crap. I don't. I won't. So stop. I don't show brands that are not the highest quality and do not use any deceptive or questionable marketing. Period. Believe it or not, but there are a few honest folks left in this world.

There are just so many great ecig brands out there that have quality products, great customer service, honest marketing and honest staff and also offer money back guarantees that literally blow these "return in 14 days after your order is placed and we won't charge you a penny" scams away; you'd be foolish to risk these "no risk" offers.

Like everything in this life, Free E Cigarettes are never free. You know it, I know it. So do yourself a favor and avoid them. Find a good brand like the ones you see here, one with a reputation, one that has been around a while, one that has actual happy customers who are not really company employees or owners posting their gushy glee on consumer complaint boards and fake review and news websites.

After all, which is better: a promised refund for crap if you return it 14 days after the day you order it, or a money back guarantee for quality stuff that runs 30 days after you get it, with a full six month or year warranty like Green Smoke offers??  Seems to me the "no risk" option is the one full of risk.

But, hey, if you believe someone is really going to send you a Free Electronic Cigarette, go for it. I'll be happy to be the shoulder you can cry on afterwards when reality sets in and then I'll point you to a good electric cigarette brand.... for free.