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

[gastonpatagonico]

@Texas_Ace

@JasonWW

TA, I would not get too worked up about what a couple folks say. A lot of times I don’t even respond if it sounds like they are publicly venting. I’d prefer they vent privately, but what can you do? Lol

I don’t think those few represent the many.

It’s nice to know that Lumintop has all the parts and it’s an outside vender that is slowing things down.

Yeah, I know. I don’t generally bother with them either.

Just let it kind of go to my head when I woke up to 4 pages of complaining about things outside anyone’s control.

Plus it makes it hard to convince Lumintop that Quality should come before quantity when all that seems to be posted is people want it yesterday.

Can’t blame them, even the fairly minor improvements for the V2 reflector came at a significant cost in rejection rate and machine time. So it makes sense to go back to the V1 specs to speed production.

The delays the last week are very possibly from lumintop trying to improve the reflector quality back up to the V2 levels. Although I sent an email to find out more details and will report when I hear back.

Pm sent

[teacher]

Ukraine is either UA or UKR, depending on whether 2 or 3 letter Country Code is used.

Below is a link to the Handy Dandy CC List for 2 & 3 letter abbreviations.

Handy Dandy Country Code List / Both 2 & 3 Letter

Hopefully… we will never be in the dark again concerning country. .

[chrisc]

Let’s see what he says as I work on a different list to that.

The UK (GB) or Engerrrland is a picky country for Li-ions. You can’t technically post a mobile phone or a camera with a battery. A friend of mine lost a £2000 camera because it was shipped, royal mail said it had a lithium cell in it and confiscated it. Legal proceedings happended. He was left £2000 out of pocket for the camera and £1500 out of pocket for the lawyer.

Most cells get shipped luckily but postal services can and are very picky.

[bella-headlight]

I am not in “Engerrrland” I am in WALES
Never had a problem receiving Li-Ions from various Chinese sellers or NKON in Holland
I was not aware that the UK had strict Li-Ion import regs like some countries :question:

[Threadneedle]

I’m in London, UK and have never had an issue ordering Lithium cells from China.

[blinker]

Nice to hear a reason. I am happy to wait. Last I heard Coyotehawk said there is no guarantee above 1500 on the list. I am 1642.

[teacher]

@bella-headlight

I am not in “Engerrrland” I am in WALES

I heard that!! Don’t blame you a bit either.

I was surprised when I saw that too……
No UK on the List…… to ×+ with the list.

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Edit:
Here ya’ go, the United Kingdom (UK) is on this one!! .

http://sustainablesources.com/resources/country-abbreviations/

[Jaza]

–13 celsius and gt in snow on turbo

[djozz]

@Jaza

–13 celsius and gt in snow on turbo

Cool!

[Bozlight29]

The GT has hit the news on Youtube:

Starts at 2.25 min:

https://youtu.be/qjhIjsHMQcs

And yes, the beam is on the warm yellow side. :) :)

Who was it? :) :)

[AlexGT]

@seery

@djozz

@Jaza

–13 celsius and gt in snow on turbo

Cool!

+1

Very cool!!!

+2 Super cool!!!

[flasky]

Neal seems to monitor the parcels in the background. A member of the German TLF wrote that Neal had informed him by mail that his parcel got stuck in German customs since nearly 1 week, which he had not known before.
IMHO a very professional good practice !

[Buzzing_Bulb]

@Bozlight29

The GT has hit the news on Youtube:

Starts at 2.25 min:

https://youtu.be/qjhIjsHMQcs

And yes, the beam is on the warm yellow side.

Who was it?

Maybe it was a GT that triggered the Hawaii missile alert? :smiling_imp:

[JasonWW]

@blinker

Nice to hear a reason. I am happy to wait. Last I heard Coyotehawk said there is no guarantee above 1500 on the list. I am 1642.

It was actually Texas_Ace. Here is his qoute.

@Texas_Ace

Ok, I just got up. The GB officially closed at midnight last night but it looks like there were only a handful of people that requested to be added after that. So to keep things simple, everyone up to now will be added to the list but like I said earlier, if we run out of the 1500, then that is it. No guarantees after that.

Most likely it will be a first paid, first to claim a GT type of deal when the next set of PM’s go out. Anything else will add a lot of complications to an already overworked team.

The first 1049 people on the sign up list resulted in 850 actual orders (a lot of early sign up’s forgot all about this light). Now there are 650 lights left and 712 people to account for them. A certain percentage (smaller than the first group) will probably decide not to purchase. So there is a good probability that everyone that is on the list will get one for the group buy price. If not, well there is usually a sale on the retail versions.

[san_san]

@DoNkEyConN

@Texas_Ace

Can’t have it both ways. Lumintop could have dropped the quality further and been caught up by now but they have stuck to making the quality we stated with the V1 reflectors.

Reading all of this, I would also say that getting lights out faster is way more important then slight improvements in reflector quality.

I am happy to wait for the best quality possible. Im sure there are many others who feel the same way.

we are many who are not in a hurry.

Quality +1000
Speed –1

[ulfm1]

@san san

@DoNkEyConN

@Texas_Ace

Can’t have it both ways. Lumintop could have dropped the quality further and been caught up by now but they have stuck to making the quality we stated with the V1 reflectors.

Reading all of this, I would also say that getting lights out faster is way more important then slight improvements in reflector quality.

I am happy to wait for the best quality possible. Im sure there are many others who feel the same way.

we are many who are not in a hurry.

Quality +1000
Speed –1

+1 :+1:

[Buzzing_Bulb]

Yup yup :+1:

[Buttkicker]

How I wish they would hurry up !!!
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with the next season of Game of Thrones

[ecobalans]

So with #1507 on the final list i will make a good chance to buy a GT @groupbuy price.

Only have to wait… 5, 6, 7 or perhabs 8 weeks before i get an email with instructions how to pay.

Ok, i’ll wait

[thommy]

Are there already shipped GT’s with registered shipping option for Europe?

I see that some folks in Europe recieved the GT by DHL.