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

The bright side is… you’ll get it sooner or later. :slight_smile:
Getting closer every day…….

@lumintop

Quality before quantity!

I will have no problem in waiting some weeks longer, as long as quality is high!

If the light was delivered by Banggood,I would have already it via priority mail,(half the time of the registered mail), with the bonus of neither had been inspecting it by Customs nor paying a penny in taxes and fees.
I tried to pass the information to several guys of the GT team plus Neal,but I couldn’t succeed in getting this option. :frowning:

Yay! #123 on the list finally shipped and delivered to Canada. I was very impressed with DHL shipping. I had to pay $20CAD to customs but the light shipped Tuesday and delivered Wednesday so I am still happy to go with DHL.

My reflector has an orange peel texture.

Just a heads up, I have not receive any emails, sms or any updates regarding my shipment to Singapore. I might be getting it last :frowning:

P.S. Because probably I might be the only one in the country to have bought it zzz

You’re not, let’s see who gets it first :slight_smile:

Like normal, if I missed anything let me know. Only get a little while in the morning to really catch up on things. The rest of the day I am on my phone and I gave up trying to post anything but very short replies on that long ago.

I have no idea what method they are using, the language barrier made it hard to get this kind of info so we just let it go.

As you saw, that was Jason, I don’t have near enough time to keep up with things like that now days. I am lucky to keep up with the details behind the scenes.

I am thinking you ae right, combined with the faster feedrate that it seems like they are using to speed production that would explain the reduced smoothness over time.

For now we just have to wait for the light to be manufactured :sunglasses:

Just to be clear, shipping took less than 36 hours, the way these lights are shipped is one of the fastest possible ways.

A package from Germany to Hong Kong would cost me ~300€ at these conditions :-P

Look at those times, crazy

Banggood Priority Mail is not anywhere near this :-P

Rather odd issue here. The switches are most likely soldered before they get to Lumintop and done automatically I would assume. So my first guess is a simple error in the production, very unlikely to be widespread.

That said, better safe then sorry, I will be sure to let Lumintop know.

If this was delivered by banggood you would have the same shipping options as you have now. Priority mail would cost extra and be slower then DHL. So you would be better off with DHL.

Now if you needed priority mail for customs reasons, it would cost a fair amount more then registered mail.

Remember this is not a 100g flashlight they are shipping, this is a ~2500g monster. Shipping is VERY different when things are that big.

My gt is stuck at customs 150km from me. Dhl is not sending info what i need for paying taxes(24% vat). Maybe tomorrow they send those, then monday could be delivery day

Yeah, customs can take time depending where you live. I have seen it take weeks before during the holidays.

I just got a reply from Lumintop about the reflector quality.

They assured me that they are trying to keep quality up while making them as fast as possible. They also wanted to be clear that they will never reduce quality to save costs.

I told them to not worry about the speed as much as the quality going forward.

The factory appears to have a real issue with making reflectors this large with consistent quality. These are the largest reflectors they have made by quite a bit. So they are still learning how best to make them.

That’s so true!
So Patience is a virtue

Just thought I’d add that mine isn’t here yet in the UK. I’d assume you’ll get a wave of people per country getting them at once.

It is amazing how quickly some of these items arrive once they’ve been shipped. I know how long it takes to catch a plane to some of these places and these parcels sure dont hang around!

So all reflectors they ship out are whitin their quality standards.

It sounds like it… unless one slips through by mistake. :+1:
Which as we all know can happen in anything.
Good job Lumintop……… :+1: