Skip the guesswork at the counter

First kit shopping is mostly a vocabulary problem. Pods, mods, coils, salt nic, 20 mg - the wall makes sense once you know four words. Here is the short version our staff give across the counter every day.

Pod system or mod kit

Almost every first-timer lands on one of two shapes.

Pod systems are the small ones. A battery, a snap-in pod, nothing to configure. The Vaporesso XROS and Uwell Caliburn lines dominate our pod wall because they are hard to use wrong: fill, wait a minute, done. Pods themselves are replaceable, so the device outlives many refills.

Mod kits are bigger, with adjustable power and a separate tank. More vapour, more battery, more to learn. Browse the mods and kits range if you already know you want control over everything. Otherwise, a pod system is the saner first buy.

Still weighing disposables against refillables? We wrote a full comparison in pod systems vs disposables.

The juice question

Devices and e-liquid pair by nicotine type. Salt nic works in low-power pod systems; freebase suits bigger mod kits. The plain-language breakdown is in our salt nic vs freebase explainer. The counter version: tell staff your device, and they'll point you to the right shelf of the e-liquid wall.

One rule covers everything in BC: nicotine caps at 20 mg/mL by law. Anything stronger does not legally exist here - see Health Canada's vaping product regulations for the full framework. Nicotine is addictive, and every product we sell carries that warning.

What a fair first setup runs

We don't post prices online, since we sell in store only. Expect a pod system, a pack of pods and a bottle of juice to land well under what two weeks of disposables costs. Coils and replacement pods are the ongoing expense. Our coils and batteries section stocks the majors, so you're never stuck with a dead coil at 2 a.m. That matters when your shop never closes.

Bring your ID, seriously

Every MooseVape store is 19+, with government photo ID checked at the door no matter how old you look. The full ID rundown is here. Then come browse in person at any of our five stores: Newton, Surrey Central, Delta, Denman or Abbotsford. Open 24/7, staffed by people who will match you to a kit rather than upsell you one.