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

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?

I like the CW. Makes me want to change my GT

Sure looks to my eyes as though the cool white is putting more light on all areas of the target. All items in the pic are easier to identify in the CW shot. Thanks for the comparison.

I agree. The CW does look like its putting more light downrange. Not enough of a difference for me to want to do an emitter swap though.

Good deed, J0sh. That's telling them. Whoever it is/was causes a lot of issues behind the scene here.

IIRC, I remember reading of this happening in other sales here. People that share stuff like that have no morals at all

Get out the chastise canes!!

I’ll be the odd man out. I like the pic with the warmer emitter better. Reaffirms for me to keep it stock, at least until a new generation of XHP35 comes out.

Thank you very much for posting. It’s appreciated.

+1 and ban him from the forum…

I feel like we need to find this “Thomas King” confiscate his light and give him a swift punch to the testicles!

Bad Form

I agree his order should be cancelled if it’s not processed yet. And he was further defending his position with no regard for others. The biggest harm may have come to those at the tail end of the GB when it’s down to who gets the last of the 1,500 lights.

I respect that this will be dealt with privately in any event.

The post on flashlight fanatics has been removed. I don’t know if it was by the original creator or if it was removed by an admin.

I’ve been waiting 10 months for this and then see him send me the same link I got in PM is bs…

SMH :person_facepalming:

Ironically, he has a recent FB post defending the right of a business to refuse service.