The purpose of VaporFox is to provide insight to consumers of personal vaporizer (e-cigarette, electronic cigarette) products.

Many web sites exist where a consumer can purchase these products, however, finding a web site that has the product a consumer wants “in stock” and for a good price can be a daunting task.

Enter VaporFox. This site scans the web sites that offer E-cigarette and personal vaporizer products using a web robot called “Hound“. The VaporFox Hound retrieves pricing and stock information from web sites selling E-cigarettes and accessories. The VaporFox site allows a user to search the information that the Hound has retrieved for products of interest to the user.

While the information is not real-time, it does provide a useful tool for consumers to locate suppliers for the products that they desire.

The ultimate goal is to organize the information available on the various web sites that sell e-cigarette products and present it to our visitors. We will not be in the business of assigning “ranks” to the web sites to determine the listing order for search results, etc. The user will always be in charge of how the data is presented.

This web site is currently in “Beta”, which means that it is in the early stages of development and not everything may work perfectly. We appreciate your patience as we work to improve upon the technology as well as the services offered on this web site.

Using VaporFox is simple. Begin by entering your search term in the box on the home page. VaporFox will suggest products that it has in the database as you type. You can choose to search for one of the suggestions, or continue to type your own search term into the box. Once your search term has been entered, click on the “GO” button to receive search results.

Search results will contain the name of the product, a link to the web page which contains the product, the latest retrieved price, and the latest retrieved stock information for the product.

A typical search result from VaporFox looks like the following:

The first part of the search result contains the name of the product, in the example above, this is “Sample Product Result”. This is a link to the web site that sells the product in question.

The next part of the search result contains the stock information for the product, in the example above, this is “Stock: U” The stock information will contain one of the following:

Stock Status Messages
Y In Stock
N Not In Stock
U Stock Information Unavailable
Number # items in stock

Therefore, if the search result says “Stock: N”, this means that most likely the product is out-of-stock. If it says “Stock: 23″, this means that there were 23 items in stock when VaporFox checked the web site. The message “Stock: U” means that VaporFox was not able to determine the stock status of the product – it may be in or out of stock.

The next part of the search result is a box containing the latest price of the product as determined by VaporFox. This is also a link to the web page selling the product.

The final portion of a search result is the name of the web site and/or store selling the product and a link to the home page of the web site. In the example above, this is “SampleStore” The flag next to the store name denotes which country the store is based in. Clicking on the flag will list all stores from the designated country.

Note: As this technology is in “Beta” and free to use, VaporFox does not warrant the accuracy of stock and pricing information. Listings on VaporFox are not advertisements and web sites are not responsible for honoring pricing or stock information contained on VaporFox. Use of this web site implies your agreement with this statement.