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

the lack of moderators might contribute to the 15,xxx posts, over 525 pages… 2/3 of which is……….

Me too!!! . :+1: … :person_facepalming:

Reckon they would do a ‘Group Buy’ at a great price??? :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Top picture looks perfect …! The bottom close-up shows the machine work, also, very nice!

That would also prevent this thread from breaking the all time record for “most post”…! We can’t stop now…! :laughing:

looks great! Congratulations!

This is my own little unofficial list just to figure out how Neal is doing things.

This is the latest “rough” list of people from the 3rd shipment who have either got tracking notices or received their light. These are all international orders and only DHL as far as I have seen.

(These are paid list numbers, not sign up numbers)

Bruno28 #12
TorinoFermic #42
Sciencetists #53
cypher1024 #57
Iron potato #59
FMC #78
Sirius9 #79
Itsme #96
Hunter1 #129
Bo4ka #144
Flasky #149
Hardware #174
Yoflash #178
Alux #180
Warzi1975 #181
DooMMasteR #193
Jaza #202
bibihang #244
piotrek966 #266
Specialk #292
D10ten #310
MACS0647 #315
Itsme5k #364
Nicolicous #380
Lipfit2000 #437
Bking #515
Schlichtie #556
CCl3NO2 #561
Tdh66 #595
Asmartik #599
Bobtb #637

What Bozlight29 said is not true. Several people in this most recent shipment got shipping notifications/tracking numbers. Just go back and read and you will see.

I think what he meant to say was that this 3rd shipment is a mix of people getting that info and not getting it. Basically, not all the people in the 3rd shipment got tracking numbers. They just showed up.

I think you are set for registered mail. I don’t believe any of these have shipped yet. So we have to wait and see if all registered packages get sent tracking numbers or what exactly.

11th of December or January?

Nope, I just didn’t proof-read my post…
It was 11th Jan, Last week.
I have done this a few times lately - my brain telling me I need a holiday!

I thought I posted when I received the DHL notification, but not when it arrived.
Although, if you didn’t see it, I may have got distracted and not submitted it.

John.

Cool. At 2200 meters it’s supposed to be 0.25 lux and not very usable, but I can see that water tower just fine. :+1:

From this last shipment so far, only 29 out of 138 people posted that they got tracking or that their light has arrived. All these folks are DHL and international. So where are the other 107? Maybe registered packages that are still enroute? We don’t really know. It’s possible I suppose. Registered mail packages have to ship sometime.

There may also be quite a few people that have received and not posted here

That’s not accurate. Some people have got tracking codes in this third shipment.

As far as professional goes, I don’t know. This is a group buy, not a retail purchase from an online store. (Even then I sometimes get no tracking data :rage: ) I’ve heard of other group buys where no one got any info at all. No shipping updates, no tracking codes, no paid lists, etc… and everyone got their light. So I guess it’s all relative.

I’m sure Neal knows this, but I will pass it along to Texas_Ace who occasionally talks to Neal.

Off the top of your head do you know if any tracking information was sent out by Neal or Lumintop, or are they relying on DHL to send messages to everyone? From memory I’ve only seen people mention they’ve had messages from DHL so far.

How so?

If you were a moderator, how would you not have 15k posts?

I can think of a few times where people bicker that I would like to delete as it’s useless info. We would still have 14,800 posts, though.

Would it be fair to delete posts that are not directly related to the GT? I don’t think so. Then it starts feeling like we are being controlled.

The only moderator here is the forum owner sb56637. As far as I know he has only deleted one post which was a joke that was somewhat slanderous to the forum and it’s reputable members. That’s all I know of. It really is up to us to moderate ourselves.

Luckily this thread will get getting slower and slower as people get their lights. It will fade out like the Q8 thread did.

I have only heard DHL shipments. Even when the old paid list said registered, it was a case where the person changed it to DHL later on.

I really don’t know about the tracking numbers. I personally got a text message from DHL. I’d need to do a search in by his thread to go back and see what people said. I just don’t have time for that right now. Maybe some people that got tracking info can post specifically where it came from.

And wouldn’t expect you to, it is a time consuming task hence why I’m not doing it myself. Just seems od if they’re not supplying the tracking (waybill) number as they get shipped out. Granted I’ve never had to deal with booking hundreds of packages though DHL so I’m not sure how much of a task that would turn out to be.

If the shipping information is being pulled from Paypal at purchase then I’d strongly recommend everyone to check their contact information before paying, namely mobile numbers but of course making sure everything else is correct too.

Controlled… sounds a bit… anarchist… It’d be half that amount… with a a few side threads in the off topic forum.
Self moderation = (apparently) a S* ton of irrelevant posts that make it harder to find nuggets of info. Which in turn leads to people posting and asking about stuff covered pages before.
Hey, most of you like it, but it doesn’t mean it makes this thread any easier to sift through…
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even if they do the group buy, it will be somewhere 1500$, which is…too much for toy