First of all, refunding every tank is absolutely ridiculous, and of course they would never do that. I'm not trying to defend Aspire, but you have to be realistic and understand what the industry and market are doing. It's moving incredibly fast, and all kinds of different consumers have different uses, priorities, wants, and needs out of their vaping experience. For a company to cater to every type of consumer is unrealistic and impossible. Sure, in a way you were "beta testing" for them, but isn't that the point of an innovation-centric industry? Things are constantly improving and getting features added, from all brands/companies and all areas of the industry. Aspire isn't alone in that regard.

I don't think this is necessarily a negative thing anyway. There's a lot of innovation. There is no way a company can deduce each and every flaw and negative subjective view a consumer may have until the consumer well... has their hands on it. Does it suck that you buy a V1 tank and a couple months later a V2 comes out and is pretty much an improvement in every way? Yea, sure. It sucks. You then have to fork more money to them for a V2. But what is the alternative? Never have a new product that improved upon its predecessors?

I'd rather buy new versions and new releases that improve upon past products, personally. Even if it means more money, it means the consumers are driving innovation and the e cig market. This also leads to competition between e cig companies, which fuels the market further and invigorates the free market capitalism. Which further fuels the innovation...

So in short, yes it sucks that V1 products become antiquated and obsolete so quickly, but you have to understand why this is happening, and how it isn't necessarily a bad thing. This "beta-testing", as you call it, has resulted in the market taking off rapidly and huge innovations happening just in the past couple years. Would you trade that all for less frequent product releases? Personally, I wouldn't.

Sorry this kind of became a rant, but I hate reading criticisms of the market like this when what you are criticizing is in many ways a positive thing for consumers and the industry at large.