How to Read an Online Vape Listing: Puffs, mL, Strength & What's Missing
A vape listing is built to be skimmed: big puff number, flavour name, price, buy button. The part that decides whether you will like the thing sits lower down in the spec table — and that is where Australian online shops differ most, because nothing says what has to be in it. Here is the order we read a listing in, and how to work out the things nobody prints.
Reading the spec table, line by line
Puff count
Read it as a size class, not a measurement. The proof comes from the makers themselves: IGET's own product page for the ONE publishes two figures for the same device — 12000 puffs in Regular Mode and 9000 puffs in Turbo Mode. Same hardware, two headline numbers, decided entirely by how hard you run it. A listing that prints one number has quietly picked a mode for you. Compare 3500-class against 3500-class, and never treat a 2000-puff gap between brands as a fact about either. For what a rating means in days rather than puffs, see our real-world lifespan guide.
E-liquid volume (mL)
Millilitres are millilitres, so this is the most honest number on a listing — when it is there. Often it is not. We re-checked IGET's official pages for the Bar, Bar Pro and ONE while writing this, and none of the three publishes an e-liquid capacity. So an mL figure on a retail listing usually came from a distributor sheet or another shop's copy — which is why the same device turns up quoted at different volumes around the web.
Nicotine strength
You will see it as mg/mL or as a percentage, and they are the same measurement in different clothes — convert before you compare anything, and do not read a strength number as a prediction of how a device will feel. We work through the conversion in our mg vs percent guide.
Coil resistance
A checkable engineering figure — but few brands publish it. IGET does: the Bar 3500 and Bar Pro 10000 are 1.2Ω mesh, the Moon is 1.35Ω mesh, the ONE 12000 a 0.6Ω dual mesh. Lower resistance broadly means a warmer, fuller draw — broadly, because nobody publishes the wattage that goes with it, so read it as a warm-versus-cool signal within a brand rather than a league table across brands. What mesh does and does not change is covered in the mesh coil guide.
Battery and charging
We do not lean on capacity figures: some makers publish them and some do not, and capacity without a power draw to divide it by tells you nothing useful. The question worth answering is binary — does it charge or not? IGET Bar and IGET Bar Pro have no charging port at all — they are sealed for life. IGET ONE, GROO MAX and G.T. are USB-C rechargeable. GODFATHER 9 is a pod system, so on any listing check whether you are buying the device or the pods. The hardware anatomy guide explains why that sealed-versus-rechargeable split matters late in a device's life.
What each spec tells you — and what it does not
| Spec line | What it actually tells you | What it does NOT tell you |
| Puff count | Rough size class from the maker's own test | Which mode it was measured in, or your total |
| E-liquid (mL) | Real volume, if the brand published it | How fast the device consumes it |
| Nicotine (mg or %) | Concentration, once you convert to one unit | How it will feel — that depends on the liquid type |
| Coil resistance (Ω) | Warmer or cooler draw within a brand | Wattage, so no cross-brand ranking is possible |
| Battery capacity | Very little on its own | Power draw, and therefore runtime |
| Charging port | Whether you can top it up at all | Charge time, or whether a cable is included |
| Flavour name | The flavour family, roughly | Sweetness, ice level, or the recipe |
What is missing, and what you can infer instead
- No mention of charging. Assume there is no port, then check the photos of the device base — a USB-C port is visible if it exists.
- Coil resistance quoted, but not by the brand. Check the manufacturer's own site before believing it. GROO MAX is the honest example: resistance figures circulate widely, but every trail we followed ends at a retailer page rather than a manufacturer sheet, so we state none. Same for G.T., GODFATHER 9 and Alibarbar.
- No mL figure. Do not back-calculate it from the puff count — those two numbers were never derived from each other.
- No wattage. Nobody publishes it. Read resistance as a hint about draw temperature and stop there.
- No airflow measurement. Never published, and the biggest reason two devices with identical specs feel different. Only a description of the draw helps here.
- No production or batch date. Also never printed. Infer turnover instead: a shop with narrow, fast-moving stock holds fresher units than one listing hundreds of dormant flavours.
- No verifiable specs whatsoever. That absence is itself a signal worth acting on — see our guide to spotting fakes.
Comparing two listings like-for-like
Normalise before you judge. Convert both nicotine figures to one unit. Check the puff counts are the same size class, and note whether either device has selectable modes. Ask whether each charges. Then treat every spec the manufacturer does not publish as unverified, however confidently a shop states it. If the two still look equivalent, the deciding factors are flavour and price — the honest answer more often than spec tables suggest.
Where we stand on this
We would rather leave a cell blank than fill it with a number we cannot trace to the maker, which is why our listings carry manufacturer coil specs where IGET publishes them and stay quiet where no brand sheet exists. Everything we sell is 100% original stock, shipped fast and discreetly Australia-wide, with free shipping on orders of 10 or more. Adults 21+ only.