Lotus Vertigo is a rip off even at 20 bucks!

What a suck ass lighter!! I just got this POS today about 6 hours ago from CI and it won't spark! Tried draining, refilling high low settings and nothing. Worked great for the first cigar and then it dies.

I contacted CI's customer service. Hopefully I can get something from Xikar.

Last time I ever buy a Lotus crapper!

[md4958]

So youre saying you didnt like it?

Sorry you had a problem with your new lighter. The Xikar Executive is a nice little lighter for around $25... doesnt hold a ton of fuel though

LOL Yeah, I had a lotus before but it took a year and a car running over it to break down.

I been looking at the Xikar Plunge or a Nibo Space 6 Triple Jet. Anyone had any luck with them? I seem to have nothing but bad luck with torch lighters. I had Blazer that looked like the Xikar Executive, and it lasted a week before it started spiting all it's fuel out at me.

I think I should stick with my Zippo! It's the only lighter that I have never had a problem with! Ran over by 20 cars, Thrown across rooms and outdoors! Dropped in a pool, Beer spills and other unworldly happenings and still works today!

Zippo is the best.

[md4958]

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

LOL Yeah, I had a lotus before but it took a year and a car running over it to break down.

I been looking at the Xikar Plunge or a Nibo Space 6 Triple Jet. Anyone had any luck with them? I seem to have nothing but bad luck with torch lighters. I had Blazer that looked like the Xikar Executive, and it lasted a week before it started spiting all it's fuel out at me.

I think I should stick with my Zippo! It's the only lighter that I have never had a problem with! Ran over by 20 cars, Thrown across rooms and outdoors! Dropped in a pool, Beer spills and other unworldly happenings and still works today!

Zippo is the best.

you can get one of those inserts for your zippo that uses butane, this way your cigar doesnt taste like youre smoking a hurricane lamp.

The "regular" blazer works pretty well, and a lot of the guys here swear by them.

I had one of the triple jet nibos, and I gave it away. It was great for lighting up a cigar, but you couldnt touch up because the flame was TOO big.

The butane you use can really affect the functionality of your lighter too... Ive been using Lava with good results. Its (and Vector also) is 5x refined, so it wont gunk up your lighting mechanism

Originally Posted by md4958

you can get one of those inserts for your zippo that uses butane, this way your cigar doesnt taste like youre smoking a hurricane lamp.

The "regular" blazer works pretty well, and a lot of the guys here swear by them.

I had one of the triple jet nibos, and I gave it away. It was great for lighting up a cigar, but you couldnt touch up because the flame was TOO big.

The butane you use can really affect the functionality of your lighter too... Ive been using Lava with good results. Its (and Vector also) is 5x refined, so it wont gunk up your lighting mechanism

I been using Xikar butane. I may get one of them Zippo inserts or a Zippo blu if I can find one for a good price. So far though, I beeb using a Wallgreen brand fuel for my Zippo's that hasn't mucked up the taste at all. I was surprised there were no odd funky taste.

I don't think I will ever buy a Blazer again, Once you get shot in the face with butane and ruin a good cigar because it shot fluid everywhere you'll never look at it the same way.

Sorry to hear about your luck with the Lotus Vertigo. Of all my lighters, it's my favorite one! And for comparison, I do also own a Xikar Executive which I like very much.

[md4958]

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

I been using Xikar butane. I may get one of them Zippo inserts or a Zippo blu if I can find one for a good price. So far though, I beeb using a Wallgreen brand fuel for my Zippo's that hasn't mucked up the taste at all. I was surprised there were no odd funky taste.

I don't think I will ever buy a Blazer again, Once you get shot in the face with butane and ruin a good cigar because it shot fluid everywhere you'll never look at it the same way.

know what else work GREAT, Ronson Jet-Light. Available at Walmart for like $3 and they are so cheap that if you loose one youdont care!

[LookAtBigErn82]

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

I been using Xikar butane. I may get one of them Zippo inserts or a Zippo blu if I can find one for a good price.

I just purchased the Zippo insert from Heartfelt. $11.86 out the door, cheapest I could find on the net.

[Barteur]

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

LOL Yeah, I had a lotus before but it took a year and a car running over it to break down.

I been looking at the Xikar Plunge or a Nibo Space 6 Triple Jet. Anyone had any luck with them? I seem to have nothing but bad luck with torch lighters. I had Blazer that looked like the Xikar Executive, and it lasted a week before it started spiting all it's fuel out at me.
Zippo is the best.

I have a Nibo and no problem till now, fuel don`t last too long, thats my down point, good luck
Frenchie

[Ahbroody]

Wow never seen or heard of a blazer doing that before.
Thats a shame it is by all my experiences a great and very consistent lighter.

Snatched a Zippo insert off Ebay 2 years ago and the thing still works like a champ. Best $10 I ever spent on a lighter.

[Sauer Grapes]

Xikars have a lifetime warranty. You really can't go wrong. I don't know why someone would say it's not an upgrade. Maybe because they don't cost more?

Originally Posted by Sauer Grapes

Xikars have a lifetime warranty. You really can't go wrong. I don't know why someone would say it's not an upgrade. Maybe because they don't cost more?

Lotus lighters are not really very expensive. But in terms of quality Xicar isn't in the same league. I have my choice of lighters to sell but the ONLY one I carry right now and I carry the whole line...is lotus.

I mean c'mon guys...Colibri offered lifetime warranties...before they cut them down to 2 years....before they went under.

Warranties don't make a lighter any good. If you don't like a soft flame...which I personally love...lotus is a good way to go and every bit as good IMO as prometheus for a fraction of the price.

My favorite torch lighters are my Duponts...they fire every single time. My x-Tend Mini has been through the wash roughly a dozen times...however, I am a big fan of the customer service XiKar gives to its customers. I would consider a XiKar to be an upgrade over the Lotus, every Lotus I have ever sold has crapped out...as a fall back, the Ronson works GREAT....

They are sending a new one to me. Hopefully it'll work longer then 6 hours this time.

Does Lotus have a website? I could only find the car website.

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

Thats a shame!

What makes a torch lighter better then another? I can't see buying a $200 lighter that's the same as a $20 lighter with the same guts that will brake in a few days.
Are all the mechanisms and guts the same?

I've had $60 lighters that looked like they had the same thing inside them as a $20 lighter which is why I will not buy a lighter for over 20 anymore.

How right you are,,,I have broken down the lines of Colibri, Prometheus and others and the mechanisms are pretty much the same so all you are paying for is the pretty outside. If I had a lump of coal that spit fire everytime I cranked it for cheap,,,I'd get it.

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

LOL
Yeah, Cigary is helping me out with the Ronsons. So Hit him with some RG will ya's! He needs a smoke ring.

Lol,,,smoke rings are good,,,cigars are better.

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

They are sending a new one to me. Hopefully it'll work longer then 6 hours this time.

Does Lotus have a website? I could only find the car website.

If u are getting a new one do u still need the Ronsons? I went by WallyWorld and they sold every friggin one they had but I still have my other ones,,,will send you a few if you still need em,,,,,

Thats ok, I talked with my cousin today and ask her to look at the wall mart in Woodstock Ill where she lives, They had six and I told her to grab em' all up. I get them tomorrow.

Thanks very much for your help and looking for me!
If anything I can do for you on my side of the earth, Let me know!

Cheers!

I see no reason on buying or owning a expensive lighter. This $3 lighter out performs anything that I have used.

I feel stupid for buying a $100 that broke so I ended up getting that repaired and selling it for 40 and all the $20's and $50's lost buying over priced crappers when I could have been buying a few nice smokes is mind boggling.

LOL
Cheers!

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

Thats ok, I talked with my cousin today and ask her to look at the wall mart in Woodstock Ill where she lives, They had six and I told her to grab em' all up. I get them tomorrow.

Thanks very much for your help and looking for me!
If anything I can do for you on my side of the earth, Let me know!

Cheers!

Good to know you got a connection there,,,you won't be sorry, Jeff. I still am using the very first one I bought 6 months ago,,fires every time. I don't even purge it most times and I just refill and it takes a few strokes and I'm good again. It's like this lighter refuses to screw up,,,and I counted last night I still have 9 of them left. At this rate I'll never need a lighter again. If is screws up or I lose it,,no biggie because I have lost some very expensive lighters in my career and almost cried or tore the car and house up looking for it.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

What a suck ass lighter!!

Sorry
to change the possible vendor situation on the replacement, but have you
tried the Ronson Jet-lite? Available at finer Walmarts and Rite-Aids every-
where? 3 bucks and they work and work and work and work. I like to say,
and this is copyrighted by the way, It's like a Bic and a Zippo had a baby.
And that baby was raised by a jet-type lighter.

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