Home / Salted RDA IQOS in Australia: the budget shortlist

Ordering IQOS to Australia: the practical version

Salted in Australia reaches the shelf in RDA formats, and the budget ones are rarely the ones that stay in stock. Availability, not taste, is what breaks an order.

Salted in a RDA is not the same product you see in a catalogue photo, and the price per 10 ml is where the gap shows. In Australia the liquid, the coil and the power setting all have to agree before the flavour actually lands.

If you only read one line: the RDA you buy decides how long salted tastes right, and the coil inside it decides how long that is.

What a salted RDA really costs in Australia

Salted sounds like one product. It is not: a RDA running 20 mg/mL will taste nothing like the same blend on a different device, which is why we test before we recommend.

How we tested salted in a RDA

1. Choose strength against the ceiling in Australia, which is 20 mg/mL for retail here.
2. Order before 14:00 so the parcel leaves the same day and lands inside 4–9 business days.
3. Settle the draw first: mouth-to-lung or direct-to-lung, because it decides the coil and the liquid.

• The landed price per 10 ml after 4–9 business days, which is the only number worth comparing.
• Spare parts availability for RDA in Australia, since tanks and pods go first.
• Returns window and who pays return postage when a RDA arrives sealed but wrong.
• Coil type inside the RDA, because mesh and wire age at different rates.

Where salted goes wrong

• Buying the cheapest RDA available and repeating it because the first coil burnt.
• Matching strength to the device instead of the draw, which is why salted tastes flat after two days.
• Treating the advertised A$44 entry kit as the real cost when refills run A$1.94 per 10 ml.

The rules that apply here

Australia caps nicotine at 20 mg/ml outside legal prescription channels.

Australia caps nicotine at 20 mg/ml outside legal prescription channels.

Related reading

Frequently asked questions