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

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.

Im one of the original 555 but I havent recieved my order yet (DHL, with cells). Is that normal or unusual?

When did you pay??

I can’t not find that model of light. Do you mean the BLF A6/Astrolux S1?

NarsilM is what is used in the GT and that is for use with an e-switch. Mechanical switch lights can’t use it.

Although, I believe ToyKeeper has a ramping firmware that can work with a clicky switch light, but it requires a new driver.

Are you talking about the Astrolux S42? Texas_Ace was doing some driver development for Astrolux to put NarsilM on that light in the future. In fact, Lexel has a driver running NarsilM for it. More details can be found here.

Me too, not even a tracking number, paid within first 3 days

Not so fast. We don’t even know if that was the GT or something else. Plus it was Fedex, plus it never left China. We should not jump to conclusions.

I just can’t imagine the conundrum of Neal’s predicament.

Understandably, some members are complaining about Neal’s non-reply of any email or message in any form just to know the real status from the man himself, (of which he can easily do,)

BUT,

on the other hand, if he is indeed in Lumintop’s factory personally attending the packing and checking change of addresses, messages regarding orders with batteries or not, change of couriers, etc. etc., imagine how much of Neal’s time will be allocated just to answer these messages, then delaying the first scenario.

….and that does not include the reported quality concerns of the reflectors that has added to the delay.

Oh well, patience is key in this situation.

500 lights have shipped out of 850 orders. Yours is probably one of the 350 that have not shipped yet.

I still find it hard to believe that it is a GT that has been stopped. Why would Neal/Lumintop use FedEX to ship instead of DHL. You’d think that they’d have a deal with a shipping firm and if you’re shipping hundreds of units you’d send them all via the same method.

I’m sure Neal could confirm.

Nothing is wrong.

The 555 list went up to about #769 or #770 on the Millers list due to people not making down payments. So you are still in the first round of payments.

Update from FedEx (Twitter-FedExHelpEU).
Apparantly the package was sent by Lumintop, and was described as ‘plastic flashlight.’
Again, nothing specifically saying it was the GT, but the circumstances would suggest that it is.

You signed up for DHL, right? For you to recieve info from FedEx from Lumintop is quite strange.

Yes, thats the one. but never mind,
idea was to try to fit luminus pt-54 led (which is 3V led) inside the GT but I disregarded huge difference in input voltages, BLF A6 takes 4.2V max…

I got no PM in my inbox…. that’s why I am a little concerned if I got left out…… I am around 1050 in line, perhaps the PMs haven’t been sent to those that far down in the Q yet?

Right, I selected DHL, I completely agree, it was a surprise to receive info from FedEx full stop as I have not, to my knowledge, got anything coming from them at all.

I should probably point out again, I’m purely posting this for information and help-for myself and others. I know some people feel there is a bit of moaning going on in this thread…whether that is true, or just the result of a misunderstanding…that certainly isn’t what this input is.
I’ve been impressed with the progress of everything so far, and even if this is all correct, likely isn’t the fault of the BLF team.

Correct. We are still filling orders from the first group of purchases #1 to #1049. You are in the third round of purchases #1065 which has not started yet.

Thanks Jason!