Lotus Vertigo is a rip off even at 20 bucks!

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!

Someone posted they wanted the Lotus! Who, What, Where'd ya go?

I know I'm not drunk yet!! I read it and had to do e mail stuff and it was gone! I swear! I'm not seeing things...

[Mugen910]

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

Someone posted they wanted the Lotus! Who, What, Where'd ya go?

I know I'm not drunk yet!! I read it and had to do e mail stuff and it was gone! I swear! I'm not seeing things...

Sorry Jeff..that was me...I was gonna trade ya a ronson for the Lotus but I didn't see that you already have ronsons coming to ya..

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.

I'm liking it! I've been using it all day and it hasn't failed once! sparks every single time.
She got me six of them and she will grab any that she finds from now on.

Woodstock is now outta stock!

Originally Posted by yellowgoat

I'm liking it! I've been using it all day and it hasn't failed once! sparks every single time.
She got me six of them and she will grab any that she finds from now on.

Woodstock is now outta stock!

I know what you mean, now when I go to WallyMart I check anyway to see if they have any and I fight myself to keep buying more because they are so damn cheap. They have the feel of an expensive lighter,,,they fire up like a $100 lighter,,,it's a single flame like I like because I'm not going to weld something with this. I have 2 and 3 flame lighters and they go thru butane like crazy. With a single flame you aren't going to torch the cigar like a flame thrower,,just toast it and smoke it. I'm thinking an even dozen is enough,,,,so only 3 more to buy. Yeah right, I will buy 10 if they have them next time!!