EVENTS
LONDON,UK
1-3 APRIL 2016
W
ell homeward bound and
this was the first UK show
of the year! London was
the setting of Vape Jam UK
2016 and did we have high hopes.
This was the second instalment by
the Vape Jam crew, and after such
a successful show in 2015 we were
expecting great things.
Well needless to say if your expectations
are high you leave yourself open
to disappointed and boy were we
disappointed.
Unfortunately we were unable to do
our job successfully and completely
as we had our bags confiscated on a
number of occasions. This was down
to another magazine causing problems
with the organisers, this put us in the
wrong frame of mind to do our job.
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We were then embroiled in debates
and confrontation on a regular basis,
being threatened with eviction from the
premises if we handed one magazine
out to any of our customers. As we were
not allowed to do our jobs properly we
can only report on what we saw and
heard, and in a nutshell many people
seemed disappointed, there wasn’t a
good buzz or vibe around the place.
Given the current attack on vaping you
would have thought the organisers would
have spared a few minutes stage time
for two of the USA’s biggest advocates,
unfortuanately this was not granted to
them and that seems very disappointing
as we are all fighting for the
same thing.
Maybe next year the organisers will go
back to the drawing board and get it right
This was the second
instalment by the
Vape Jam crew, and
after such a successful
show in 2015 we were
expecting great things.
like they did in year one, or maybe the
success of their rivals Vaper Expo UK
has over shadowed the good work they
did and now makes them look little more
than average.