Cream City Vapes sprung onto the vape scene several years ago with knockoff Puffco Peak glass and Chinese Puffco Peak Inserts. The Puffco portable dab device was peaking in popularity and Cream City Vapes focused on 3rd party accessories and borderline counterfeit Puffco products.
Cream City also carried a few dry herb vaporizers and participated in the annual 420 vape sales and Black Friday Vape Deals, but failed miserably. Multiple people on Reddit, FC, and 420vapezone communities reported multi-month shipping delays and customer service nightmares involving Cream City Vapes.
By the end of 2022, Cream City Vapes was near the top of the “Vape Stores to Avoid” list.
As of January 12th, 2024, the creamcityvapes dot com URL redirects to a new “Fire Elf” vape store, which seems to sell the same line of drop-shippable dry herb vaporizers and Puffco products.
According to the WayBackMachine / Archive.org this FireElf website has been around since 2008.
The domain has served many purposes over the years, masquerading as a software site, a vacation destination directory, a javascript library, and now it’s an online vape store.
WTF is going on here?
It’s entirely possible that an online vape store is the Fire Elf guy’s 23rd attempt at an online business.
But this is most likely a rebrand by the Cream City guys in an attempt to escape their reputation for ripping people off, taking multiple months to ship things, and generally screwing everyone over.
In the Black Hat SEO world, it’s pretty common for business owners to completely rebrand for the sole purpose of changing domain names. Google blacklists websites that participate in shady internet marketing tactics and it’s easier to buy a new domain and rebrand than it is to earn forgiveness from Google.
Cream City likely suffered from a Google penalty, as well as a piss poor reputation – so they found the shortest and oldest domain they could.
Fire Elf Vape Store is Cream City – AVOID
Search Reddit for Cream City and you’ll find piles and piles of people who have been scammed by this guy.
You’ve been warned. Stick with reputable online vape stores.
A little more proof
I didn’t want to dig into whois info or backend stuff, but a glance at their content revealed several leftover instances of “Cream City”
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I was looking for the titanium bucket for my OG Peak lol finally found it on amazon. it doesn’t fit “perfect” but it’s good enough. I know all over reddit the Cream City name was over and always a dead end lol. Now I think I need the hotter mod though now lol
I’ve purchased several items from ccv over the years, some being custom puffco peak glass top pieces worth several hundred dollars, and bought a peak pro from them after my first one was stolen. I’ve also bought a bunch of smaller items (carb caps, glass adapters of sorts, chamber for peak pro etc) and I have not once had any issues ordering from them.. on the contrary every order I placed was actually a really good experience.
Good communication, always got tracking info, fast shipping, always answered any dms or whatevs and never had any issue w anything.
Now, I will also say that I have not ordered anything from them in probably 2- 2nna half years by now. Not because of anything they did, I just needed to stop buying hella glass n shit anyways lol..
So while my personal experience was good, it also was a while ago. So I cannot speak to the credibility of them as of now.
I have been hearing a few things tho about them gettin shadier n shit; especially hearing it from a glass artist that used to have their products on the site..
Apparently they took a very large shipment of carb caps accessories etc from this artist and they did it on consignment or however they do it (I didn’t pry into dudes personal biz) but he’s done business w them for a few years n never had issues prior.
But I guess they took this last shipment and never paid dude for any of it, blocked him on all socials n email, and then I guess the site stated having issues too. Dude said if it was just like a small order of caps n dabbers he’d just say eff it n blow it off, but this was a good couple thousand dollars worth of stuff,, and as far as I know he still never heard nor got shit back. And this was months n months ago. Soo……
So yeah there’s 2 lil experiences I can throw into the mix.
Shit sucks tho cuz when they were on the up n up, them and ZeeVapor were like the only 2 sites I’d order shit from.
And speaking on ZeeVapor, as far as I know they still are 1000% legit,, again I haven’t done biz w em in like 2 years but I still follow em on ig n see they still on they shit.
I hope and pray Zee is still keeping shit tripleOG cuz they were the best out there product variety and stock wise, pricing and deals wise, and just good dudes wise lol.
Fire Elf is Cream City and they owe me over $10,000. Buyer beware. You’ve been warned.
that sucks to hear Amy. That’s a lot of vapes!