(PART 2 Continued here)
http://budgetlightforum.com/node/59610

• The 3rd batch of PM’s will go out in the next couple days! Please check the new thread for more info.

[23 Mar 2018] Neal and Lumintop are back in full contact now after CNY. We are sorting through issues and preparing for the next batch as quickly as possible. If you have an open issue please fill out the BLF GT outstanding issues survey
Please only fill out survey one time and only if you have already paid for an order and have an issue. Thanks.

[20 Mar 2018] Due to this threads massive size it was causing the BLF server to break down and/or be very slow. Please go to the link above and subscribe to the new thread (bottom of post #1) or just post in it to be automatically subscribed. Subscribe to the new thread for the latest news.

[14 Mar 2018] Pi Day! M4D M4X is putting together a list of active issues for the GT. This is ONLY for those that have Placed an order and have an outstanding issues that needs to be addressed. This is NOT for tracking number requests, these will be handled separately. Please only fill this out if you have a real issue that needs to be addressed, I don’t want it to get bogged down with other stuff.

The results of this survey will be compiled into a list and sent to Neal to be addressed. Please be as specific as possible when filling it out but also try to keep to the important information to make it easier for Neal to understand. Remember, english is not his first language.

BLF GT outstanding issues survey

Once these issues are fixed we will proceed with the GB, shipping should be much faster since lumintop is stockpiling the reflectors.

[12 Mar 2018] Lumintop and Neal sent out the final 50 orders from the existing orders today, tracking numbers should hopefully be available by the end of the week.

[11 Feb 2018] Lumintop and Neal worked together to send off a final 185 lights before the Chinese new years celebration. China will be shut down for the next few weeks and we do not expect any updates or news until the end of the month. So please remain calm and hold your questions until the end of the month. At that time we will sort out the remaining orders that have not been shipped and try to deal with any outstanding issues. We expect to send out the next batch of PM’s around the end of the month’ish

[3 Feb 2018] Lumintop graciously agreed to pay for the extra shipping costs out of their own pocket to some countries. Our end of the deal is that we will charge these costs up front with the next batch of orders. Only the smaller / remote countries are effects for the most part.

[30 Jan 2018] The 3rd batch of payment PM’s will be postponed until after the China New year to minimize wait time. Plus nothing will happen until after it is over anyways.

[30 Jan 2018] Lumintop should have the registered mail issues sorted out and is hoping to ship most of the existing orders before the Chinese new year celebration that starts next week. This assumes that enough reflectors show up and they are good enough quality.

[29 Jan 2018] Click the link for information regarding the issues surrounding registered mail shipping.

[10 Jan 2018] The PM’s for this account “Team-Giggles” have been disabled for the time being as no one actively monitors them right now. Please contact Neal or Texas_Ace with any questions instead.

[6 Jan 2018] The Group Buy is officially closed! The lights will go on sale with the normal Lumintop outlets after the GB orders are complete sometime in the next few months. The retail price will be $250. Thanks to everyone that made this possible!

[5 Jan 2018] BREAKING NEWS The group-buy will end today. If you do not have ‘I want one post’ in this thread by the end of today (no idea which timezone], you will not be able to buy the GT at the group-buy price.

[5 Jan 2018] The official GT team user account takes over the top posts in this thread from TheMiller’s private user account.
The following members have access to the GT team account:

• TheMiller
• Texas_Ace
• Tom E
• DEL
• JasonWW

[27 Dec 2017] The GT started to ship. Shipping will continue as they roll off the assembly line. Production rate is about 200 units per week. The first two batches shipped to the US (for logistical reasons).

From our omnipresent JasonWW:

JasonWW wrote:

LATEST NEWS

A 6th shipment of 50 lights (the last of the current orders) went out on March 13. Appearantly it was a smaller batch than 50 as more lights are shipping during the week of March 19-23.

Neal is sending out tracking numbers. Some packages have already started arriving.

The next group (3rd batch) to purchase lights (#1050 and up on the list or who signed up after 10/23/17) will get their PM/ emails in March (Maybe. Keep reading for details). This minimizes wait time and also gives Neal time to finish up the last shipments from the people who already paid.

Texas_Ace will decide when the PM’s go out. It should be some time after ALL the current orders are shipped out and any missing or incorrect orders are corrected. We should get a few days advance notice.

You can see if you have a tracking number for this 5th shipment by going HERE and filling out the form.

A 5th shipment of 185 lights went out on Feb 9th. This includes registered packages. So this means about 800 of the 850 lights have shipped. The next shipment of reflectors should take care of the last 50 orders.

I moved 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th shipment details to post #12000

DHL shipping was very fast and is recommended for all USA buyers in the future.

The “slowish” shipping is due to the large reflectors being slow to produce. Lumintop is only receiving about 150 reflectors per week. So we should see about 150 lights ship every week.

Of the first 1049 people on the list that have been able to pay, about 850 have ordered.

Initial quality has been fantastic. A handful of people have gotten opaque black switch covers instead of translucent black. Replacement switch covers are being sent on a case by case basis.

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Nvanlaar’s links.

Here are the 2 paid lists. Keep in mind the second one is not complete, but maybe they are helpful to a few people.

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 – Updated Dec 15

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for #556 to #1049 – Updated Dec 10.

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M4D M4X: For all people who want to let us know the value that should be declared on the parcels:
please take the BLF GT customs declaration survey.

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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these.
Battery details are here.
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Video of DHL box Drop Test

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