The BLF GT looks out of this world. Could you start the process of putting me on the list for One please? I will register for the Battery deal too. UK Based. Will wait to hear from you. Many Thanks.
Coyotehawk will add your names to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime mid January when you are emailed with the details of where to go and how to order.
You can also buy 8 of the Samsung 35E batteries for $40 at the same time as you buy the light. No sign up necessary for those. There are plenty of batteries in stock.
If they start a new thread there is. As it stands right now the miller is the only one who can update the OP (#1)…an he is not around to do it. :person_facepalming:
The Miller set up this group buy so that all posts come through here. He did not want additional threads. Maybe he felt people would get confused by mutiple threads? IDK. It’s just unfortunate that he took ill and had to miss out on the big release of the GT. Up until then, things where going pretty smooth as he was handling things, greeting new members, updating the list and updating post #1. I think things still went pretty smooth in his absence. Yeah, we had a lot of repeat questions, but we had the same situation in the Q8 GB were post #1 was always updated. Folks still asked the same old questions. You just can’t avoid that. Lol.
Several folks in the Q8 group buy, myself included, asked for new threads just for people to say “mine is ordered” or a thread just to say “I got mine, look at it”, etc… (those types of posts take up huge space) but he did not want that.
It’s his group buy so we are somewhat limited without him. Luckily, we are almost done with the GT. Another month or two and this thread will start to dwindle.
There have been a lot a great ideas to make future group buys better, though. Maybe they can be used on the FW3A as it has not gotten into full swing, yet. There are a lot of interesting flashlight ideas floating around so I’m sure there will be future BLF designed flashlights with group buys. We learn a little more with each one on how to make things go smoother.
Starting a new thread reserved exclusively for shipping updates is what I was thinking. Then there’s just one place that’s always visible for that specific issue, and it frees up this thread for pics, “I got mine, I got mine!” posts, etc.
UPDATES: It appears that the first shipment went out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th. DHL shipping was very fast.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
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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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I understand what you are saying JasonWW. But the Miller is not around.
I think all Jerommel was saying is to start a New GT thread where post #1 could be updated with relevant, up to date information.
Then close this thread with a link left here for the new thread.
The “new thread” would just be a continuation of this one…… with the real exception that the original post (OP) could be updated with Real Time information instead of being stuck as now with information that is totally irrelevant to what is going on now.
Whatever the reasoning was in the beginning is out the window now, due to circumstances it has proved itself flawed.
Time to move on possibly & stop trying to ride a dead horse.
Well, it would be The Millers group buy if he was still here running it. I place no blame onto him, folks get sick, that’s life. But by not being here it’s no longer his group buy. It’s the group buy of the folks who are actually doing it now.
IMO, do it the way you want to. Next group buy if he wants to run it again, he goes back to running it the way he wants to. It’s no disrespect to him, but everyone does things slightly different.