[PART 1] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Group buy officially closed! Lights shipping.

So now someone is passing out link and password on Facebook…

Thats just great, got a link you can PM me (please don’t post it)? We will have to shut it down and cancel all the recent orders if that is the case. Just what we needed.

So thanks to whoever it is that posted it, everyone will have their links canceled and we will have to resend the links out along with a lot of extra time canceling orders and sorting through this if many people saw it.

Just pmed it

This guy is a tool. Edit: The sharer of course, not josh.

j0sh - thanks for spotting this and letting us know.

:+1: :+1: +2

just make stock GT to zero in order page.

And change pass to next payment. If someone need link to batt or donation, they just can ask m4dm4x or team.

Comparison, GT with CW XHP-35 vs. GT with WW XHP-35, very cloudy night, light sprinkle coming down….64ºF with 75% humidity. Water tower is (still) 1.9 miles away. This time I set the 2 second timer on the camera and held the light about 8’ away to the right of the camera so the beam shot isn’t looking down the beam of light.

Base shot, (all 3 shots are with the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens at 200mm, ISO1600, f/4.0, 0.5 sec in manual focus from the 5D MkIV, Med Jpg SOOC)

CW

WW

I have 8 matched LG M25 18650 cells with solder blobs, I used one carrier from my light with the rear 4 in the WW GT, used the empty WW carriers in the rear of each light. So each light is running on 4 matched LG M25 cells.

Thanks for the info, someone else sent me this screen shot.

Well, thanks to this user everyone that placed an order today will have their orders canceled and the link will be disabled, meaning that everyone that got the link legitimately will also have their links disabled.

We will try to figure out how to send a new link for those legitimately on the list at a later date. For now, the order page is closed (well as soon as martin wakes up that is, please don’t try to order before it closes, that is just more work to cancel the order).

Should be able to link his name to his blf account and shun him
And cancel his order if it has not already been shipped, passing it on to another lucky member

I never support publicly dox’ing people, even if they deserve it.

If he is found on BLF, it will be handled behind the scene.

Use him as a lesson of what not to do.

His post included a picture of blf gt beam so I would assume he already received it…

If this Thomas King is a BLF member & you figure out his username…. please let us know who it is.

Edit:…… Mr. King made a mistake & has apologized. Apology accepted. :slight_smile:

What Facebook page was it on?
Maybe public shunning is too far, but taking him off the the list if he ain’t already got it would be more than fair

I thought that passwords that we received from TheMiller where 1-time use only, you use it once and then it’s automatically disabled…
Maybe you can do a script that would check if the same password was used multiple times and then identify those purchases/cancel those orders!

Flashlight fanatics, I just checked…

Maybe we need a second layer of check. After paypal payment, provide a BLF ID and list number to Neal, Neal has to check the list to match the ID and PM the BLF ID here to do final confirmation.

Cancelling a lot of orders and refund with paypal are not good solution when it happens again.

This is planned for the future but the site we are using now is still in the early development stages.

Each page is manually setup and this makes it very impractical to use unique codes for everyone.

We are looking at making smaller batches going forward, like say every 50 - 100 people. So as to reduce the impact of something like this.

So easy for stuff to get buried here, I’ll repost so it can be seen….

Comparison, GT with CW XHP-35 vs. GT with WW XHP-35, very cloudy night, light sprinkle coming down….64ºF with 75% humidity. Water tower is (still) 1.9 miles away. This time I set the 2 second timer on the camera and held the light about 8’ away to the right of the camera so the beam shot isn’t looking down the beam of light.

Base shot, (all 3 shots are with the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens at 200mm, ISO1600, f/4.0, 0.5 sec in manual focus from the 5D MkIV, Med Jpg SOOC)

CW

WW

I have 8 matched LG M25 18650 cells with solder blobs, I used one carrier from my light with the rear 4 in the WW GT, used the empty WW carriers in the rear of each light. So each light is running on 4 matched LG M25 cells.

We already do this to some degree now, although mostly we have focused on the big influx of orders. A lot of people never send their user name or it is not spelled exactly right and makes it hard to manually check each and every order.

All it has to do it survive ~2 weeks after the next round of PM’s before the code gets out. At that point it will be a free for all for the first 1500 lights I am guessing.

Thanks Dale to comparison pic CW and WW stock GT.

Any tutorial how you changed GT led?