We thought we would do a little thread just so you guys who order online can get to know our team a little better, this thread will be updated with separate posts for each branch.
Vape King ~ Meet Our Team
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VAPE KING HEAD OFFICE - FOURWAYS, JOHANNESBURG:
Warren Pleass - @Gizmo
Position: Owner and Founder
Birth date: 22 January 1988
Favorite Device: Sigelei 150W TC with Uwell Crown Tank
Favorite Juice/s: Poundcake by Glas, Whatever is closest
Favorite Build: 22G Parallel with cotton Bacon
Current Devices Owned: I own a Vape Shop so I own all the things, seriously though I use a Sigelei 150W TC with a Crown tank and A Cera RDA
What I love about Vaping: The health benefits and the fact that I still get to enjoy my Vice without having to worry about my health, I love trying different flavors and the Vape Community!
How long I've Been Vaping: 3 Years
Other Hobbies: Gaming, Web Development, Droning and Spending time with my beautiful daughter!
Sharri Van Zyl - @Stroodlepuff
Position: Chief Operations Officer
Birth date: 19 April 1990
Favorite Device: Wismec Reuleaux DNA200 and OBS Crius Tank or my griffy
Favorite Juice/s: Claim your throne by Kings Crown, Vape King Caramel Toffee, E-liquid Project Special Reserve, basically anything deserty and yum
Favorite Build: 5 Wrap Tiger dual coils, Cotton Bacon as wick
Current Devices Owned: I own a Vape Shop so I own all the things, seriously though I use a Reuleaux with a Crius, I also Use an IPV 4s with a Subtank Mini and a Subox Nano Kit and a Geek Vape Griffin
What I love about Vaping: Sooooo many yummy flavours, I love the people, we have made so many new friends through Vaping, I love the meets, I love new hardware - ooooh shiny!
How long I've Been Vaping: 3 Years
Other Hobbies: Gaming, Arts and Crafts, Netflix, Aerial photography and videography
Jenny Ince @JennyWren
Position: Crazy Scientists and Juice Mixologists
Birth date: 2nd April 1959
Favorite Device: MVP 2.0 With Mini Nautilus
Favorite Juice/s: Lime Milkshake with a dash of Menthol Ice
Favorite Build: Standard Commercial Coils
Current Devices Owned: Istick 30W with Eleaf GS-Air, MVP 2.0 with a Mini nautilus and a CLK 1280 with a Kangertech Protank Mini
What I love about Vaping: I started vaping to help with my chronic Asthma and it worked, I love trying new flavors and coming up with mixes.
How long I've Been Vaping: Just on 8 Months
Other Hobbies: Sewing, Reading magazines, Music, Lawn Bowls and spending time with my kids and Grandchildren
Karen Ellerbeck - @Kiki_bear
Position: Warehouse manager
Birth date:20 January 1985
Favorite Device: Smok Micro One Kit
Favorite Juice/s: Caviar by GQ and Rebel Lion White Lion
Favorite Build: Standard coils
Current Devices Owned: Smok micro one Kit, Kangertech Subox Nano Kit, Sigelei 150 with TFV4
What I love about Vaping: Vaping is a great way to stop smoking, its healthier and has a whole community experience, its no longer just a miserable Nicotine addiction
How long I've Been Vaping: 1 year
Other Hobbies: I quite like the creative side of things, baking, painting, chocolate making etc. Finally my daughter is getting big enough to "Help"
Shaun Francis - @SgtKilowog
Position: Warehouse assistant, order packer, tea lady extraordinaire
Birth date: 18 June 1995
Favorite Device: Snowolf 200W is still king
Favorite Juice/s: Paulies coffee Cake
Favorite Build: Cant decide, it changes weekly...
Current Devices Owned: iTaste VTR, GI2, Kangertech Subox, Snowolf 200W
What I love about Vaping: The community, coil building and of course the clouds...now you see me, now you dont
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 years
Other Hobbies: Gaming and tinkering around with technology!
Garth Ince
Position: Lab assistant and Juice machine
Birth date: 20 December 1947
Favorite Device: SVD with a Nautilus mini - Also Laser tattoo removal machines
Favorite Juice/s: Traditional Tobacco 12 MG mixed with Vape Wild morning Ritual 6MG, I also really like Hansa and Jack daniels...oh wait wrong juice
Favorite Build: 36-24-36 oh wait you meant coils, I like the standard Nautilus BVC coils
Current Devices Owned: I have a wife I dont need a device
in terms of vaping though I have an SVD, MVP and EvodWhat I love about Vaping: You dont get that awful smoke in your eyes, I like the flavors and coming up with new ones and I like that I can smoke inside now and my wife doesnt kick me out in the rain when I need a nicotine fix
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 years
Other Hobbies: I love sports, watching them and screaming at the TV. Lawn Bowls and spending time with my family. I also love playing Mahjong
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VAPE KING BEL AIR - BEL AIRS MALL , JOHANNESBURG
Phillip Campos - @Dr Phil
Position: Store Manager, Vape enthusiast, cloud chaser extraordinaire and coil king
Birth date: 07 July 1983
Favorite Device: Noisy Cricket is king!
Favorite Juice/s: Bombies nana Cream! I also quite enjoy Glas Spiced donut - pity it was limited edition
Favorite Build: 40g ni80 around 24g ni80 clapton with cotton bacon
Current Devices Owned: Wismec Reuleux Dna200, Wismec rx200 and noisy cricket
What I love about Vaping: Building new friendships and helping people to stop smoking, building new rta's and rda's, clouds!!! I just love vaping
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 years
Other Hobbies: Motor cars, Gaming and watching documentaries
Giovanni Secchia - @Giovanni Raymond Secchia
Position: Front of House sales and Dr_Phils personal slave
Birth date: 1998
Favorite Device: Dotbox DNA 200 and Petri RTA
Favorite Juice/s: VapeWild morning Ritual and Vape King Cheesecake
Favorite Build: 18g KA01, 4 wrap, 5mm ID, Single Coil
Current Devices Owned: All of Dr_phils old stuff
What I love about Vaping: Baby Clouds, 30G Ni200 wire and temp control
How long I've Been Vaping: 1 Year
Other Hobbies: Formula 1, eating spaghetti and baking cookies
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VAPE KING FOURWAYS - FOURWAYS, JOHANNESBURG:
Oliver Barry - @Ollie
Position: Store Manager, Cloud Blower, Coil Master
Birth date: 17 January 1983
Favorite Device: Paddy vapes Sheamus mech mod, Goon 24
Favorite Juice/s: Paulies coffee cake, Orion Asteroid
Favorite Build: Dual Alien Claptons, 3 x 28g Ni80 + 1 x 36G Ni80
Current Devices Owned: Please dont let me count, but I have more than any normal man needs. Why? BECAUSE VAPING!!!!
What I love about Vaping: Whats there not to love? I love all aspects, building coils, tasting new juices, helping people with their vaping journey, meeting new people...and of course all the promo girls
How long I've Been Vaping: almost 3 years
Other Hobbies: Vaping, Vaping while gaming with mates & vaping while fixing my old school BMW. Oh, almost forgot, I really love vaping.
Carlos Campos - @Nibbler
Position: Front of house sales, Coil Master
Birth date: 7th July 1961
Favorite Device: Reuleaux DNA200 and Sigelei 150 TC
Favorite Juice/s: Paulies Pistachio Ice-cream, Apricot Jam Donut and Waffling Blue, I also Enjoy Caviar from GQ and Eclipse
Favorite Build: 26G, 2.5 ID, Parallel Clapton on a Billow V2
Current Devices Owned: Reuleux, Sigelei, Cera RDA, TFV4, and and and
What I love about Vaping: It totally relaxes me and helps me focus, the taste is awesome and the people are great
How long I've Been Vaping: Just on two years now
Other Hobbies: Cosmology, Astronomy, Gaming, Hiking, Quantum Physics, Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Tevan Coetzee - @Tiff-Donkey
Position: Sales Machine & Coil Builder (And resident DJ)
Birth date: 1995/03/08
Favorite Device: Rogue Mech Mod with a recoil RDA
Favorite Juice/s: The entire Vape Wild range
Favorite Build: Dual Fused claptons with cotton bacon
Current Devices Owned: Asmodus Minikin V2, Rogue mech, Sigelei 213 And more
What I love about Vaping: The ability to vape a variety of different flavours in so many different ways
How long I've Been Vaping: Just on two years now
Other Hobbies: Djing, Car sound enthusiast and dipping cookies in coffee
Rowan Francis - @Rowan Francis
Position: Casual Front of house sales, Mod fixer upper. An interesting fact - Rowan was the first person employed by Vape King other than Gizmo and Stroodlepuff
Birth date: Stardate - 354076 (whatever that means)
Favorite Device: Dna200s and Petri RTA
Favorite Juice/s: Anything fruity
Favorite Build: Claptons, straight forward
Current Devices Owned: Just a few...lets not go there
What I love about Vaping: Having tastebuds mostly!
How long I've Been Vaping: 26280 hours and counting
Other Hobbies: Being a dirty old man...RC stuff...Paintball...shooting and fixing/tinkering
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Time to update these a bit Will be doing updates over the next few days
Will be doing updates over the next few days
VAPE KING CRAIGHALL - THE VALLEY CENTER, JOHANNESBURG:
Jordan Burns - @Jordan Burns
Position: Store manager and Sovereign Leader over the Democratic People's Republic of Jordania
Birth date: 17 January 1993
Favorite Device: Noisy cricket V2, Authentic Dotmod Petri RTA
Favorite Juice/s: P-P-Pacha Mama entire range
Favorite Build: Fused Stapled Staggered Claptons by Geekvape
Current Devices Owned: Limitless/Ijoy Lux, Noisy Cricket V2
What I love about Vaping: The endless range of flavours and the interactive vaping community
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 Years
Other Hobbies: Pool and Playing the Ukulele, also vaping duh!
Rogan Burns
Position: Manager of Jordan, Rebel Leader in the fight against the totalitarian leader of Jordania,
Birth date: 05 August 1990
Favorite Device: Wismec RX200s, Authentic Dotmod Petri RDA
Favorite Juice/s: Pistachio Ice-Cream. There is no other!
Favorite Build: Parallell NI80
Current Devices Owned: Wismec RX200S, Asmodus Minikin 150W, IPV D3
What I love about Vaping: The endless range of flavours and the interactive vaping community, also I love working for such an awesome company
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 Years
Other Hobbies: Beating Jordan at pool, Reading, movies, series and exercise -
Emil de Villiers - @Edevill
Position: Coil builder, sales person and assistant to the sovereign leader over the democratic people's republic of Jordania
Birth date: 29 May 1980
Favorite Device: Smoant Battlestar, DotMod Petri RDA and all of the Ijoy tornado range
Favorite Juice/s: Deserts and Fruits...All of them
Favorite Build: 9 wrap 24G Nichrome 2.5 IDE
Current Devices Owned: Smoant Battlestar, Petri RDA, ASpire Cleito, Tornados
What I love about Vaping: Huge range of flavour and toys...who doesnt like toys
How long I've Been Vaping: 1 year and 5 months
Other Hobbies: Rollerblading, Youtube, series and building new RBA devices
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updated with details for @Rowan Francis , @SgtKilowog and a few others
Enjoying this thread @Stroodlepuff ! This last update gave me a good laugh!
Me too! I was canning myself when I got their replies back!
@Stroodlepuff
ok so maybe i am a tad bit too geek then -
http://www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm
and then put in "-354076" as in minus 354076
ok so maybe i am a tad bit too geek then -
http://www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm
and then put in "-354076" as in minus 354076
VAPE KING NORTHCLIFF - MOUNTAIN VIEW SHOPPING CENTER, JOHANNESBURG:
Tyron Fitzpatrick - @Msterty
Position: Store owner and General Manager
Birth date: 15th February 1993
Favorite Device: Smoant Rabox
Favorite Juice/s: Vape Wild Hannibal Nectar, Pacha Mama, Suave Macho and Suave Bravo
Favorite Build: 2.25mm ID, 10 Wrap 24G NI80
Current Devices Owned: Geekvape Karma, Smoant Rabox, LMC Box mod, Sigelei 213
What I love about Vaping: Clouds, Clouds, clouds
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 Years
Other Hobbies: Gaming, Fat Tunes and Yoga
Darren Meek - @Anubis569
Position: Store Manager
Birth date: 20 July 1993
Favorite Device: Limitless 200W and Limetless 24 RDA
Favorite Juice/s: Vapour mountain XXX, Avalon Dryad and Siren
Favorite Build: Dual Parrallel 26G Ni80/26G Kanthal
Current Devices Owned: ijoy Lux, Limitless 200W, Limetless 24 RDA, Geekvape Karma
What I love about Vaping: The friendly community and Vast range of juices
How long I've Been Vaping: 2 Years
Other Hobbies: Gaming
Michael Shortland
Position: Front of House sales
Birth date: 12 February 1997
Favorite Device: Paddy Vapes Sheamus
Favorite Juice/s: Vapor Mountain XXX
Favorite Build: 24G ni80, 10 wraps, 2.25ID
Current Devices Owned: Limitless 200W, Sheamus, Smoant Rabox
What I love about Vaping: The community and the clouds
How long I've Been Vaping: just over a year
Other Hobbies: PC gaming, Bass guitar and clubbing
Fabian Olivier - @JollyVaper
Position: Front of house sales and stock admin
Birth date: 29 April 1993
Favorite Device: Asmodus Minikin Kodama
Favorite Juice/s: Suave Bravo, Vape Wild Stardust
Favorite Build: 2.25mm ID, 10 Wrap 24G NI80
Current Devices Owned: Smok Gpriv 220W, Asmodus Minikin 155W Boost
What I love about Vaping: Flavour choices and the community
How long I've Been Vaping: Just over a year
Other Hobbies: Gaming, Photography
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