Molds are extremely expensive to make and would have taken far longer to come to market. While the material it’s made out of is inexpensive and the polymer in the mold is also inexpensive, the mold itself needs to be paid for. The lights would have cost far more if the reflectors had been molded. It’s just economics. It woudn’t have saved money. Lumintop did it correctly IMO.
Well said Jason…… we got a heck of a deal on this Bad Boy!!
It is an amazing light!! Paying a measly $15 dollar ‘deposite’ for the privileged of getting one at the ‘first 555’ price was well worth it!!!
We were not paying a deposite for ‘preferred shipping order’.
We were paying a deposite for ‘preferred price’. :+1:
I do not agree. Yes we will be happy with this light and that it gets delivered at all, and it is unjust to question that! But the remark was not about that, it was about the choice we had in shipping option without knowing that one of the two options would leave China many weeks after the other. It makes sense to be very disappointed about it. Of course the team is not to blame, but it would have made sense if someone in China had done some thinking about it.
I guess I read it wrong then, I thought we were talking about the disappointment someone was feeling because the first 555 were not treated as “first priority”.
Of course all will be happy when their light gets delivered…. that seems a nobrainer. :+1:
Yeah… it would have been nice to know in advance if one shipping option was indeed going to have preference over another. Maybe that info was not avaiable or decided on at the time orders were taken however.
Or maybe, since Registered Mail is shipping in two boxes; there has been a slight delay in sourcing those boxes.
Who knows…… all speculation on our end anyway.
Main thing is the lights are being made & shipped as fast as LT can crank them out & maintain that EXCELLENT QUALITY we are seeing in the GT.
The GT joins the little family.
From left to right: BLF A6, BLF Q8, Imalent DX80 and the GT.
And I used to think the DX80 was a monster light :smiling_imp:
The ancient Maglite 6D joins the fray:
A shot of the reflectors. The BLF A6 is hiding between the DX80 and GT
No sign of orange peel here, but I see the slight maching marks that everyone has.
Paid deposit on August 26. Full payment plus small bonus for the team on December 2.
Number 5# on the paid list…
As far as I know there is only 2 GT’s for Serbia RS, bouth with DHL shipping.
One of those two is delivered to Sirius9 some time ago and with batteries included.
Mine is without batteries and no sign of it so far.
As I used to work for DHL I have possibility to check out if anything is currently coming to my address,but nothing so far…
I am not complaining at all just would like to know if there was some confusion over shipping to me, and maybe sent with registered instead??
Can someone from the team please ask Neal, or Lumintop since I don’t want to bother them when they have too much work to do.
If that is indeed so, the 3.9 times heavier, then the 305 gram aluminum reflector would turn into an 1186 gram silver reflector. Unless I missed something, that would mean an Silver reflector equipped GT would weigh approximately 6.9 pounds instead of 5 pounds, if a grown person could not lift 6.9 pounds I would have to wonder who carries their newborn babies for them?