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

we are many who are not in a hurry.

Quality +1000
Speed –1

+1 :+1:

Yup yup :+1:

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

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

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

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

+1

I’m willing to wait for my GT for good quality instead of fast shipping! That being said, I want my GT’s with V3 reflectors! LOL :smiley:

I think -2 is cooler!

Many!! I will follow through with purchase -

Hi guys, a question (this was probably discussed 10K posts earlier) can firmware from GT be ported to ordinary Astrolux A6 driver? I know, there are many differences in the hardware but still, maybe!

Sounds like something that would happen in Australia not the UK lol, Australian customs is a nightmare!

I’m in England. Never had a problem ordering lights, cameras, computers, or anything else using li-ion batteries, from ANYWHERE in the world (including lots from gearbest over the last year or so) or sending electronics back home when I’ve been away, so I was a bit surprised to hear this as a reason.
From the tracking information it never actually left HK, so it doesn’t appear to have been a UK customs issue.

Strangely enough, the text, and tracking info came from FedEx. The only other thing I have ordered from outside the UK recently is a shirt (not from HK), and to the best of my knowledge, that didn’t include batteries of any kind, let alone li-ion ;).

Not fussed about receiving it by a particular timescale-I think the team has done us proud so far-just want to make sure it doesn’t go back…and stay there!

If it came from FedEx it probably won’t be the GT. the team said it was DHL or registered mail. I can’t see why you’d get it via FedEx and no one else in the UK would have spoken up about delivery

Too bad one got returned for missing LiIon notification.
Mine came with DHL and had two big stickers declaring LiIon batteries inside and some text about confirming to packaging and shipping regulations for DHL.

But then DHL might very well have their own internal system for labeling and shipping LiIon batteries that is independent of the mail system. E.g. by shipping them only on aircraft that do not have passengers.

Hi guys, I pre ordered the light and batteries, I need the paypal address to pay for my order. Can someone point it out or pm me? Thanks.

Should be in your PM (personal message)
Check it and follow instructions

Fusion,

See post #5 on the first page. You are slated for the 3rd round of PMs.

Names Request 2017-12-01 PMs 2017-12-09 PMs 3rd round PMs
fusion_m8 [1065] 0 0 1

The 3rd round of PMs has not gone out yet, and probably won’t until the lights from the first two rounds have shipped. Last I heard the 3rd round of PMs may go out in February.

The PM will give you a link to a web page and password for the web page, not a paypal address.

Hi,

I just checked the list in #5.
I´m at position 767 in PMs at 2017-12-09 PMs, but I got payment info for first round $111 shipped and payed this.

Also I got payment info from Neal per Mail at 2017-12-04 with text:

Thank you for your purchase! You ordered the following item(s):
BLF GIGAThrower (Registered mail) x 1 - $101.78

Am I in secound round now? Have I to pay more?

That is pretty much DHL’s requirements for shipping batteries, of course they need to follow IATA as well. Any regular joe, or business can ship certain volumes of batteries and cells, over said volume needs to be an approved shipper with DHL otherwise it’ll get rejected at the gateway once the driver brings it back, idealy rejected at the pickup location when the driver inspects the shipment. For the volume they’re sending out and the fact you confirmed LiIon stickers they know what they’re doing and following the rules. Most likely was just human error and missed a declaration of some sort.

To answer your second question, according to IATA:

Edit: Now that I think about it they’re probably more likely 966 rather than 965 but I believe they’re more or less the same.