Fake Exotic Cartridges: How To Spot Them, Who Makes Them

Fake Exotic Cartridges: How To Spot Them, Who Makes Them

Update 02/09/2019: Companies producing fake Exotic carts.

Fake Exotic carts are everywhere. Shady vendors across the country sell all types of fake cartridges and they buy them directly from China. Here, we’ll show how to identify them as well as the name of the companies that are making fake Exotic carts.

Fake THC cartridges are a major problem in the past year. See our other pages for more information on fake Stiiizy pods, fake Brass Knuckles, fake 710 King Pens, and fake Heavy Hitters.

Update 10/21/2019: All Exotic Cartridges are fake, they are only a packaging brand.

What are fake Exotic cartridges?

An Exotic cartridge is considered a fake when it contains oil that was not made by the actual company. In China, companies make cartridges with Exotic cart branding, logos, and packaging. We are not sure if the real company is able to pursue any of the Chinese makers legally, because there might not be a trademark since technically Exotic cartridge is a federally illegal product.

To begin with, there isn’t even any information about the company itself in the first place. Making it more skeptical and unsure about the oil quality and what’s actually in it. Apart of this, there are many fakes out there ranging anywhere from $30 a gram to $60 a gram, sometimes even more. Namely, we highly doubt the legitimacy of Exotic carts as a company. What does this mean? We can’t be sure that the product is pure.

Exotic Carts flavors:

  • Gelato
  • Apple Fritter
  • Blueberry kush
  • Cookies and Cream
  • Do-Si-Dos
  • Gorilla Glue
  • Forbidden Fruit
  • GSC
  • Grape Pie
  • Kosher Kush
  • Lemonade
  • Mars OG
  • Mimosa
  • Pineapple Express
  • Purple Punch
  • Sunset Gerber
  • Strawnana
  • Strawberry Shortcake
  • Sour Tangie
  • Skittles
  • Wedding Cake
  • Yoda OG
exotic carts flavors
It should be noted that we are unsure if all of these flavors are from the company itself or sold by manufacturers

Key things to look for when identifying fake Exotic cartridges

Poor oil quality and low consistency level

identifying fake exotic carts
The distillate should have a thick wax density to it
fake exotic carts do si dos indica
Contributed image from a reader. It had thin oil and piney taste.

Some of these fake carts seem to have a very thin, waxy consistency. Even though these cartridges claim to have 80%-85% THC level, vendors can put any sort of oil they’d like. Some people will even say that some of these carts aren’t as strong as they claim to be. Not only this, but there are others who say that these carts leave a weird, burnt aftertaste to it.

Fake Exotic carts are easy to open and not sealed tightly

If you ever have an Exotic cart that isn’t sealed, or any cart in general, you should be a bit skeptical to whether it is legit or not. These fake Exotic cartridges aren’t sealed right, allowing them to be easily refillable with any sort of oil that people can sell to you. You can tell this by squeezing above the resealable zipper, this will allow it to pop open easily.

The packaging isn’t holographic

exotic carts packaging
All new flavors come in a holographic package
exotic carts gelato hybrid
Contributed image. Packaging was good and hard to open but non-holographic.

This is a bit of a contradiction. Exotic carts recently came out with new flavors and will keep coming out with more. With that being said, the packaging to these new flavors come with a holographic tint. Packages without this tint can mean they’re either trying to get rid of their old inventory or they’re possibly fake. On the contrary, there are many counterfeit holographic packages being sold everywhere online.

Has a silver or lighter-color mouth piece to it

Another thing I realized is that some of these fake carts are either silver or light gold. As far as I know, their Instagram page shows the mouth piece with a strong Gold color to it. Most cartridges have a strong gold color to it, but some vendors sell them with a silver color to it.

UPDATE 2021 : New packaging found

As you can see from this post’s date, we were pointing out Exotic cart fakes way back in 2018! Well here it is August 2021, and we ran across these:

Exotic-carts-Joe-Tiger-King

“Rona guaranteed or your money back” – You know what, I’m starting to love the 2020s. It’s like every 1980s dystopian teen movie came true at once.

This, of course, is a reference to the TV reality show Tiger King. It was a huge hit right when COVID-19 started up. Recognize it here?

Tiger_King

When the US first reluctantly started lockdown quarantine, millions of Americans took to streaming video at home, and Tiger King suddenly got popular through sheer viral luck. China cart packagers just went “well it came up in Google, it must be part of our branding!”

Exotic-carts-presidential-kush

The second one is modeled after former US president Donald Trump, as a “presidential kush” strain. (hint: there is no such cannabis strain). This one echoes those “Fat Donald” carts we saw way back when. I’m getting to know Chinese packaging art too, and I’ve seen this one-eyed cyclops motif all over Exotic carts packaging before – plenty of examples on this page. I think it’s their cultural way of depicting a foolish person. Traditionally, the cyclops represents narrow-mindedness, or people who see things through only one perspective. But they also brand the Kool-Aid pitcher with it, so maybe to them it just means their artists can’t draw 2 eyes.

Here are the companies that are making fake Exotic carts

For ones that had a picture I am including a picture so you can identify fakes better. The picture of each company’s fake will be below their information. Please add any data you may have in the comments section or discuss fake Exotic carts here on our forum. This page will be updated as new fakes are found.

Companies producing fake Exotic carts:

SZ Garden

Location: Guangdong, China (Mainland)

DH Gate: Business Page

This company seems to sell fake Brass Knuckles, Dank Vapes, 710 King Pen and Mario carts  as well.

fake exotic carts
All new flavors should come holographic in the back of the packaging

Chris Zhou Shenzhen GreenLightVapes Technology Co., Ltd. 

Contact person: Daniel Yin

Location: Guangdong, China (Mainland)

Alibaba: Business Page

identifying fake Exotic carts
This cartridge has a silver color to it, and they also sell Mario carts

Vape Guider Technology Co.,Ltd

Location: Guangdong, China (Mainland)

DH Gate: Business Page

fake exotic carts
These ones are more difficult to tell, the packaging looks identical

Nacthy Vapor E Cigarette

Location: Guangdong, China (Mainland)

DH Gate: Business Page

fake exotic carts
These ones are sold in a gold and silver color

Boerxin Technology Co., Ltd

Contact Person: Nicolas Tse
Whatsapp/Tel:+8613377489055
Website: www.mokecig.com

boerxin technology co. fake exotic carts
Boerxin Technology Co. makes fake Exotic Carts.

As we get more information we will keep updating this post. If you have information you would like to add, please comment below, post in our forum, or email us at community@3.220.195.53.

Francisco