Shortfill E-Liquid Sale Key Highlights
- 48 shortfill e-liquids from £1.99 to £6.00 across nine brands, every one nicotine-free with headspace for nic shots
- Three bottle formats: 50ml (Glow Juice, Charlie's Chalk Dust, Bad Drip Labs), 80ml (Black Market) and 100ml (Amazonia, Horny Flava, Kingston Get Fruity, Tasty Fruity, Area 51)
- Nine Glow Juice 50ml flavours at £1.99, the lowest price per bottle in the sale
- Eighteen 100ml bottles at £2.99 to £3 from Amazonia, Horny Flava and Kingston Get Fruity: around 3p per ml before nicotine
- Thirteen Tasty Fruity 100ml flavours cut from £9.99 to £6
- Two Charlie's Chalk Dust 50ml listings covering 18 in-stock flavours, including the Pacha Mama line, at £3.99 instead of £9.99
- Pre-duty stock: the £2.20 per 10ml Vaping Products Duty does not apply to bottles already in the supply chain before 1 October 2026, and the sell-through window closes on 31 March 2027
- A 100ml bottle plus two nic shots makes 120ml of 3mg liquid for around £5
About the Shortfill E-Liquid Sale
Shortfills exist because of a quirk in UK law: nicotine-containing e-liquid cannot be sold in bottles larger than 10ml, but nicotine-free liquid can be any size. Manufacturers therefore sell larger bottles filled short of the brim, and you add nicotine yourself with 10ml nic shots. The result has long been the cheapest way to vape in the UK by a wide margin, and this page is the cheapest corner of it: forty-eight bottles between £1.99 and £6 from nine brands, all pulled from the full-price shelves of the wider Hulme Vapes sale.
The brands are not filler. Amazonia and Kingston are UK-made houses with large standing ranges, represented here by twelve 100ml bottles. Horny Flava is a Malaysian juice maker with international distribution, contributing six 100ml bottles across its Milkshake, Original and Bubblegum lines. Black Market adds three 80ml milkshake blends, Glow Juice supplies nine 50ml flavours at £1.99, and Tasty Fruity brings thirteen of its best-known 100ml fruit profiles. Two American names round the page off: Charlie's Chalk Dust, with two multi-flavour 50ml listings including Pacha Mama, and Bad Drip Labs with two of its signature dessert and candy bottles.
Price per ml is the number that matters with shortfills, and the timing now matters too. At £2.99 for 100ml, the Amazonia and Horny bottles cost around 3p per ml before nicotine; a full-price 10ml nic salt at £3.99 costs 40p per ml. Even after two nic shots the finished 120ml sits near 4p per ml. From 1 October 2026 the UK Vaping Products Duty adds £2.20 to every 10ml of liquid entering the supply chain, nicotine-free shortfills included, which is £22 of duty on a single 100ml bottle before VAT. Stock that was already in the country can be sold without duty until 31 March 2027, and at these prices that is exactly what this page holds. For high-wattage vapers who get through liquid quickly, nothing else in the shop comes close, and nothing will come close again once duty-paid stock takes over.
How to Choose a Sale Shortfill
The sensible way to shop forty-eight bottles is by price tier first, flavour second. Three tiers cover the whole page.
Under £3: 100ml Shortfills at £2.99 and 50ml Glow Juice at £1.99
Best for: maximum value and heavy use. This tier holds 26 of the 48 bottles. Amazonia's nine 100ml bottles at £2.99 are UK-made 70/30 liquids led by the Fizzy Blast soda line: Lilty, Cherry Cola, Blueberry, Orange, Strawberry and Bubblegum Fizz, each built on a sherbet-style fizz, plus straight Blackcurrant, Lime and Fruity Pear for vapers who want fruit without the carbonated edge. Horny Flava's six 100ml bottles at the same price are denser and sweeter Malaysian-style juices: Grape, Lime Vanilla and Split Mango from Horny Milkshake, Strawberry and Red Apple from the Original line, and Mango from Horny Bubblegum. Two Black Market 80ml shakes, Lemoney Shake and Banggo Shake, also land at £2.99. Then there is Glow Juice: nine 50ml bottles at £1.99 each, the cheapest single purchase on the site, covering Blue Razz, Crystal Blue, Frozen Peach, Frozen Nectar, Grape Kiss, Wild Currant, VMT Berry, Dark Desire and Black Arctic.
£3 to £3.99: Kingston, Panda Shake and Charlie's Chalk Dust Shortfills
Best for: UK-made fruit and American pedigree. Kingston Get Fruity's three 100ml bottles at £3 (down from £6.50) are Tropical Exotic, Triple Melonade and Miami Peach and Pineapple: bright, clean UK fruit blends in the 70/30 ratio that suits sub-ohm tanks. Black Market's Panda Shake, a chocolate and vanilla ice cream blend, is the third 80ml shake at £3.79. At £3.99 sit the two Charlie's Chalk Dust 50ml listings, each a pick-your-flavour product cut from £9.99. The main Charlie's listing currently has Big Belly Jelly, Jam Rock, A Killer Guava Pear Cobbler, Pops, Rhino, Uncle Meringue, Aunt Meringue and Purple Wedding Cake in stock. The Pacha Mama listing holds ten tropical blends including Huckleberry Pear Acai, Fuji Apple Strawberry Nectarine, Blood Orange Banana Gooseberry, Strawberry Guava Jackfruit and Passionfruit Raspberry Yuzu, with five of them also available as ICE versions.
£4.99 to £6: Bad Drip Labs, Tasty Fruity and Area 51 Shortfills
Best for: premium names and proven everyday flavours. Bad Drip Labs' Don't Care Bear Iced (gummy candy, melon and peach with menthol) and Cereal Trip (cereal, donut and milk) are 50ml bottles cut from £14.99 to £4.99, the deepest percentage discount on the page. Tasty Fruity's thirteen 100ml bottles at £6 (from £9.99) are the safe choice for anyone who wants a familiar fruit profile in bulk: Watermelon, Mango, Grape, Blue Raspberry, Blackcurrant, Pink Lemonade, Berry Lemonade, Grape Lemonade, Strawberry Apple, Strawberry Pineapple, Lychee Apple, Tropicana Pinegrape and Fruity Mix. Area 51's Event Horizon, a mixed fruit 100ml at £6 (from £15), is the only 50/50 bottle in the sale, which makes it the one shortfill here that also behaves in higher-resistance coils.
One shot fills a 50ml bottle to 60ml; the 80ml and 100ml bottles take two shots each. If you are unsure where to start, one bottle from each tier (a Glow Juice, a Kingston and a Tasty Fruity) costs £10.99 and covers three very different juice styles and two bottle sizes.
Which Shortfill Range Is Right for You?
Each brand on the page shops differently, so the cards below summarise what each range is and who it suits. Every card links to the full brand collection, where the sale bottles sit alongside any full-price stock.
9 Flavours, 50ml, £1.99
Glow Juice: fruit, ice and dark berry 50ml shortfills for flavour rotation
View Glow Juice9 Flavours, 100ml, £2.99
Amazonia: UK-made Fizzy Blast sodas and straight fruits at 3p per ml
View Amazonia6 Flavours, 100ml, £2.99
Horny Flava: dense Malaysian milkshake, fruit and bubblegum 100ml shortfills
View Horny Flava3 Flavours, 100ml, £3
Kingston Get Fruity: clean UK-made fruit 100ml shortfills, half price
View Kingston3 Flavours, 80ml, From £2.99
Black Market: lemon, tropical and chocolate milkshake 80ml shortfills
View Black Market18 Flavours, 50ml, £3.99
Charlie's Chalk Dust and Pacha Mama: American premium 50ml shortfills at 60% off
View Pacha Mama2 Flavours, 50ml, £4.99
Bad Drip Labs: candy and cereal dessert 50ml shortfills, cut from £14.99
View Bad Drip13 Flavours, 100ml, £6
Tasty Fruity: the everyday fruit 100ml shortfills, £3.99 off each bottle
View Tasty Fruity
Whichever range you pick, budget for the shots: the nicotine shots collection runs from 90p to £1.99 per 10ml across 18mg freebase, 20mg salt, ice and 100VG options, so the finished cost of any bottle here is the sale price plus one or two shots.
How to Add Nicotine to a Sale Shortfill
Step 1: Count the shots
50ml bottles take one 10ml nic shot; 80ml and 100ml bottles take two. The headspace in each bottle is sized for exactly this, so there is no measuring involved.
Step 2: Know your resulting strength
One 18mg shot in a 50ml bottle gives 60ml at 3mg. Two 18mg shots in a 100ml bottle give 120ml at 3mg. For a stronger mix, use 20mg salt shots rather than extra shots, since the bottle has no room for more.
Step 3: Shake hard
Empty the shots in, cap the bottle and shake for a good thirty seconds. Poorly mixed shortfills give harsh spots and weak stretches, and the thick 70/30 liquids on this page need the full half minute.
Step 4: Rest if you can
The mix is vapeable immediately, but ten minutes of settling (or overnight for the Black Market and Horny Milkshake creams) rounds the flavour off noticeably.
Shortfills are high-VG liquids best suited to sub-ohm kits and tanks running coils below 1.0ohm. In a small pod kit they will feel thick and muted; for pod kits, the 99p nic salt sale is the better-matched deal. The one exception on this page is Area 51's Event Horizon, whose 50/50 ratio wicks happily in mid-power kits around 1.0ohm.
The Shortfill Strength Table
| Bottle | Shots added | Finished volume | Strength with 18mg shots | Strength with 20mg shots |
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| 50ml shortfill (Glow Juice, Charlie's, Bad Drip) | 1 | 60ml | 3mg | 3.3mg |
| 80ml shortfill (Black Market) | 2 | 100ml | 3.6mg | 4mg |
| 100ml shortfill (Amazonia, Horny, Kingston, Tasty, Area 51) | 2 | 120ml | 3mg | 3.3mg |
These finished strengths are the natural territory of sub-ohm vaping, where large vapour volume delivers plenty of nicotine from a low concentration. Vapers who want more than 3.6mg should buy one of the 50ml bottles and add a single 20mg salt shot for 3.3mg, or accept that a 100ml format caps out near 3.3mg: UK law limits shots to 20mg/ml in 10ml bottles, and the headspace is fixed.
Shortfill Formats and Cost Per ml Explained
The three bottle sizes on this page are not arbitrary: each is a different answer to the same regulatory puzzle. When the TPD capped nicotine bottles at 10ml, manufacturers needed a legal large format, and the industry converged on bottles sold with deliberate headspace. Glow Juice, Charlie's and Bad Drip fill a 60ml bottle to 50ml, leaving room for one shot. Amazonia, Horny, Kingston, Tasty Fruity and Area 51 fill a 120ml bottle to 100ml, leaving room for two. Black Market fills a 100ml bottle to 80ml, which also takes two shots but lands the finished 100ml at 3.6mg rather than 3mg: a deliberate design for vapers who find standard shortfill strength slightly thin. The size on the label always refers to the liquid inside, not the container.
| Format | Sale price | Cost per ml (bottle only) | With nic shots at about £1 each |
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| 100ml Amazonia, Horny Flava, Kingston | £2.99 to £3 | 3.0p | 120ml for about £5: 4.2p per ml |
| 100ml Tasty Fruity, Area 51 | £6.00 | 6.0p | 120ml for about £8: 6.7p per ml |
| 80ml Black Market | £2.99 to £3.79 | 3.7p to 4.7p | 100ml for about £5 to £5.80: 5p to 5.8p per ml |
| 50ml Glow Juice | £1.99 | 4.0p | 60ml for about £3: 5p per ml |
| 50ml Charlie's Chalk Dust | £3.99 | 8.0p | 60ml for about £5: 8.3p per ml |
| 50ml Bad Drip Labs | £4.99 | 10.0p | 60ml for about £6: 10p per ml |
| Typical full-price 10ml nic salt | £3.99 | 40p | Not applicable |
Shot costs assume roughly £1 per shot; exact pricing is on the nicotine shots page. The comparison with 10ml bottles is not entirely fair, since salts suit different devices, but it shows why heavy sub-ohm vapers buy their liquid on this page and nowhere else. Format also predicts how fast you finish a bottle: a 60ml mix suits vapers who rotate flavours weekly, while a 120ml commits you to one profile for weeks, which is why the guide above treats the £2.99 giants as stock-ups for proven favourites and the £1.99 Glow bottles as the experimentation tier.
Who Should Buy Sale Shortfills?
Sub-ohm vapers
If your kit runs below 1.0ohm and you get through 10ml or more a day, shortfills are your format and this page is the floor price for it: eighteen 100ml bottles at £2.99 to £3.
Zero-nicotine and low-nicotine vapers
Shortfills are the natural home of 0mg and 3mg vaping. Skip the shots entirely and a £1.99 Glow Juice is a complete, ready-to-vape bottle; add one and you have a gentle strength no 10ml format serves as cheaply.
Flavour explorers and e-liquid collectors
Malaysian mango milkshake, American meringue dessert, UK fizzy soda and dark berry menthol in one basket for under £12: this page is the cheapest world tour in vaping, and the Charlie's listings alone cover 18 flavours.
Budget-first vapers stocking up before duty-paid stock
Nothing on the site delivers more ml per pound, and nothing will once the £2.20 per 10ml duty reaches the shelf. If cost per week is your metric, start here and buy depth.
Why Buy Sale Shortfills from Hulme Vapes?
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Genuine Brand Stock
Amazonia, Charlie's Chalk Dust, Tasty Fruity and the rest arrive through authorised UK distribution: the same bottles sold at full price, discounted to clear.
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Everything for the Mix in Stock
Thirteen nicotine shot options from 90p, so every shortfill on this page can be finished to your strength in the same order.
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UK-Based Mixing Advice
Not sure how many shots or what strength? Our UK team will do the maths with you before you order.
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Fast Tracked Delivery
Same-day dispatch before 12pm, tracked UK delivery, free over £50: a case of sale shortfills clears that threshold easily.
How Long Does a Sale Shortfill Last?
A sub-ohm vaper on a typical 0.2 to 0.4ohm coil gets through somewhere between 5ml and 15ml a day, so a mixed 120ml bottle lasts one to three weeks and a 60ml roughly half that. Two habits stretch it further: keeping wattage in the coil's recommended band rather than at its ceiling, and closing the airflow slightly, both of which slow how fast liquid vaporises. Sealed shortfills store for months in a cool dark place. Once nicotine is added, use the bottle within a few weeks for best flavour, as mixed liquid oxidises faster than sealed stock.
Matching Shortfill Liquid to Hardware
Forty-seven of the forty-eight bottles here are blended VG-heavy at 70VG/30PG (Charlie's offers some flavours at 80/20), because thick liquid produces the dense vapour sub-ohm coils are built for. That ratio is also why they misbehave in the wrong device: a tight pod coil struggles to wick thick juice fast enough, giving muted flavour and eventual dry hits. The rule of thumb is simple: coils below 1.0ohm and adjustable wattage mean shortfill territory; a small automatic-draw pod means the 99p salt sale is your page instead. Area 51's 50/50 Event Horizon is the crossover bottle for kits that sit between the two. Vapers running both device types have the best of it, splitting the basket between a £2.99 100ml for the tank and a handful of 99p salts for the pocket pod.
Building the £20 Shortfill Basket
A worked example makes the value concrete. Two Amazonia 100ml bottles (£5.98), one Kingston Get Fruity (£3), two Glow Juice 50ml bottles (£3.98) and six nicotine shots at roughly £1 each lands near £19 and mixes into around 480ml of finished 3mg liquid: nearly half a litre, a heavy vaper's month and more, with five distinct flavour profiles to rotate so no single juice burns out its welcome. The same 480ml bought as full-price 10ml bottles would run past £190. That gap is the entire case for this page, and the duty will widen it further for anyone still buying 10ml bottles next year.
Buying Cheap Shortfills in the UK: Duty, Compliance and Safety
The shortfill format is itself a compliance mechanism: because the TPD caps nicotine-containing liquid at 10ml per bottle, every legal large-format e-liquid in the UK ships at 0mg. That is why nothing on this page contains nicotine as sold, and why nic shots are a separate 10ml product capped at 20mg/ml (2%). The bottles here carry the same labelling and notification obligations as full-price stock. When comparing prices elsewhere, be wary of oversized bottles sold with nicotine already mixed in: that is not a bargain, it is a product that cannot legally be sold in the UK.
The newer rule is the Vaping Products Duty. From 1 October 2026 HMRC charges £2.20 per 10ml on all vaping liquid entering the UK supply chain, nicotine-free shortfills included, with a duty stamp to show it has been paid. On a 100ml shortfill that is £22 of duty before VAT, which is why future shortfill pricing will look nothing like this page. Stock that was already in the UK before that date can be sold unstamped and duty-free until 31 March 2027. Every bottle here is priced as pre-duty stock, and the page will thin out as it sells rather than being replenished at the same prices.
Safety & Age Restriction
Nicotine shots added to these liquids create a product with a risk of nicotine dependency, and nicotine may cause irritation for some users. Vaping products are intended for existing adult smokers and vapers. Mix and store responsibly.
- Shortfills are sold nicotine-free; nic shots are capped at 20mg/ml (2%) in 10ml bottles
- Store liquids and shots away from children and pets: nicotine is toxic if swallowed
- All products are strictly for ages 18 and over. Age verification is required at checkout.
Stocking Up on Sale Shortfills Before the Duty Deadline
A note on how this shelf behaves over time, because it shops differently from a normal category. Clearance shortfills arrive as whole brand ranges and leave the same way: the Glow nine, the Amazonia nine, the Horny six and the Tasty thirteen each came in as a block and will each disappear as a block. The page's character can change completely between visits, a soda-and-fruit page one month and a dessert page the next, so judge each visit on what is actually listed and treat any brand you rate as a one-time opportunity rather than a standing line.
Bulk logic works harder than usual right now. Ten Amazonia or Horny 100ml bottles at £2.99 is £29.90 for a litre of juice, and pairing a shortfill order with a nic shot multipack and a spare coil or kit is the easy way to clear the £50 free delivery threshold in one order. Sealed shortfills keep for months, so buying a season's worth is practical rather than wasteful: add shots bottle by bottle as you open them, not all at once. For everyday pricing on lines that never reach the sale, the main e-liquids range runs standing multi-buy offers year round, but for the next few months this page is where the shortfill money goes furthest.
Shortfill Sale: Frequently Asked Questions
Why do these shortfills contain no nicotine?
UK law caps nicotine-containing e-liquid at 10ml per bottle. Larger bottles must be nicotine-free, which is what a shortfill is: a big bottle left short so you can add 10ml nic shots yourself.
How many nic shots do I need per bottle?
One shot for a 50ml bottle, two for an 80ml or 100ml. Each shot is 10ml, and the bottles are deliberately under-filled by that amount, so the shots fill them exactly.
What strength does a nic shot make my shortfill?
An 18mg shot in a 50ml bottle gives roughly 3mg finished strength, and two 18mg shots in a 100ml bottle also give about 3mg. Two shots in an 80ml Black Market bottle give 3.6mg. Using 20mg salt shots instead lifts each of those figures slightly.
Can I vape sale shortfills in a pod kit?
They will work but not well: most shortfills here are thick 70/30 liquids made for sub-ohm coils below 1.0ohm. Pod kits run better on nic salts, and our 99p nic salt sale covers that side. Area 51 Event Horizon, a 50/50 blend, is the one bottle here that suits mid-power kits.
Why are these shortfills so cheap?
They are clearance stock: end-of-line runs and overstock from brands we carry at full price, bought before the October 2026 duty. The liquid is identical to full-price bottles; the price reflects our stock position.
Does the new vaping duty apply to these shortfills?
Not to the bottles on this page. The Vaping Products Duty of 2.20 pounds per 10ml applies to liquid entering the UK supply chain from 1 October 2026. Stock already in the country before then can be sold duty-free until 31 March 2027, which is what these prices reflect.
Which is the best value bottle on this page?
By pure cost per ml, the 2.99 pound 100ml bottles from Amazonia and Horny Flava and the 3 pound Kingston Get Fruity bottles, all at around 3p per ml. Even after two nic shots the finished cost stays near 4p per ml, roughly a tenth of typical 10ml bottle pricing.
How should I store shortfills I stock up on?
Sealed, upright, cool and dark: a cupboard beats a windowsill. Sealed bottles keep for months. Add nicotine only when you are ready to start a bottle, since the mixed liquid ages faster.
Need Help Choosing or Mixing Shortfills?
Shortfill maths trips plenty of experienced vapers, and getting it wrong means a month of liquid at the wrong strength. If you are unsure how many shots to add, what strength to aim for, or whether your kit suits high-VG juice, ask our UK team via the contact page before you order. The nicotine strength guide also walks through how shortfill strengths compare with nic salts and cigarettes, which is the piece most switchers are missing. If you want a second opinion on which of the nine brands to start with, say what you vape now and we will point you at the closest match on the page.
Browse Related E-Liquid and Vape Sale Collections
The shortfill sale is one wing of a larger clearance. The other sale pages cover the pod side of the shop, and the nic shots page completes any shortfill order.
100ml0mg70/30 VG/PGBubblegum
100ml0mg70/30 VG/PGBlackcurrant
50ml0mg70/30 VG/PGGrape / Raspberry
50ml0mg70/30 VG/PGICE / Mango
50ml0mg70/30 VG/PGBlue Raspberry
100ml0mg70/30 VG/PGBlueberry
100ml0mg70/30 VG/PGPear
50ml0mg70/30 VG/PGICE / peach
100ml0mg70/30 VG/PGStrawberry
50ml0mg70/30 VG/PGBlue Raspberry
100ml0mg70/30 VG/PGLilty
50ml0mg70/30 VG/PGAniseed / Blackcurrant / Menthol
