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

[Texas_Ace]

Lets move past the drama please.

[ARsee]

Hey goshdogit.

The stickers are perfect.

Thank you!!

[Bozlight29]

For me the whole GB process from design, production and payment went very well, with compliments to the team and Lumintop. It’s my first GB but I am impressed by the way things went. I should say, keep it that way. Things to improve are shipping and communication. I will not go in too deep, as TA says, no more drama. I’ll get to that later after the GB has ended. My advice, don’t judge people, they all love this GT, some are patient others are not. Some complain, others are silent. But at the end we have the same passion for this special thrower. If you were one of the lucky ones that got the GT the first week of 2018, be happy, but have some empathy for the ones who have to wait till mid February all though they were in the project from the early beginning.

[teacher]

@ARsee

Hey goshdogit.
The stickers are perfect.

Thank you!!

Those really look good ARsee!!! Thanks for sharing……

[st33lboy]

@Bozlight29

For me the whole GB process from design, production and payment went very well, with compliments to the team and Lumintop. It’s my first GB but I am impressed by the way things went. I should say, keep it that way. Things to improve are shipping and communication. I will not go in too deep, as TA says, no more drama. I’ll get to that later after the GB has ended. My advice, don’t judge people, they all love this GT, some are patient others are not. Some complain, others are silent. But at the end we have the same passion for this special thrower. If you were one of the lucky ones that got the GT the first week of 2018, be happy, but have some empathy for the ones who have to wait till mid February all though the were in the project from the early beginning.

+1

Which country has only a few(1-3) orders, why are they waiting for delivery (DHL)? I wanted to get the lamp fast, so I ordered DHL delivery. I have to pay VAT shipping fees, this is not a problem for me either.
But Neal does not respond to an email, Lumintop tells him he’s sending this week. My question is which week?

I am very happy for those who have received their lamps! But you should understand the people who ordered DHL for fast delivery, but there is still no news of the lamp.

[Texas_Ace]

Remember you are not alone. They are just finishing the DHL orders this week from what they told me. So there are at least another ~125 people in your shoes.

This is simply due to the slow reflector delivery process, they just can’t get enough for everyone.

[ARsee]

The question has been asked. So here it is.

[Bozlight29]

What I am curious about, I want to use the GT with 4 batteries, I guess near the tailcap. How does that feel? A bit in balance, or does it feels much better with 8 batteries?

[ARsee]

@Bozlight29

What I am curious about, I want to use the GT with 4 batteries, I guess near the tailcap. How does that feel? A bit in balance, or does it feels much better with 8 batteries?

With batteries in the rear carrier configuration only, balance is near a flat plane. For me the light feels good with my hand hold at/around the button area.

With 8 batteries the mass feels over weight. Something we have to accept for better run times.

PM Boz

[Bozlight29]

@ARsee

@Bozlight29

What I am curious about, I want to use the GT with 4 batteries, I guess near the tailcap. How does that feel? A bit in balance, or does it feels much better with 8 batteries?

With batteries in the rear carrier configuration only, balance is near a flat plane. For me the light feels good with my hand hold at/around the button area.

With 8 batteries the mass feels over weight. Something we have to accept for better run times.

PM Boz

thanks, just what I hoped for.

[ARsee]

Edited the image above ;)

[MRsDNF]

Nice pictures on the balance point ARsee. Thanks. :+1:

[ARsee]

@MRsDNF

Nice pictures on the balance point ARsee. Thanks. :+1:

I could have done better if I put the camera on the tripod LOL!

[BanglaBob]

@Bozlight29

For me the whole GB process from design, production and payment went very well, with compliments to the team and Lumintop. It’s my first GB but I am impressed by the way things went. I should say, keep it that way. Things to improve are shipping and communication. I will not go in too deep, as TA says, no more drama. I’ll get to that later after the GB has ended. My advice, don’t judge people, they all love this GT, some are patient others are not. Some complain, others are silent. But at the end we have the same passion for this special thrower. If you were one of the lucky ones that got the GT the first week of 2018, be happy, but have some empathy for the ones who have to wait till mid February all though they were in the project from the early beginning.

Yeah, I’m still waiting (patiently?) for mine, but so far no news
A friend who lives 200 miles up the road got his almost 2 weeks ago so I was hoping I’d get mine soon.

[Bozlight29]

@BanglaBob

@Bozlight29

For me the whole GB process from design, production and payment went very well, with compliments to the team and Lumintop. It’s my first GB but I am impressed by the way things went. I should say, keep it that way. Things to improve are shipping and communication. I will not go in too deep, as TA says, no more drama. I’ll get to that later after the GB has ended. My advice, don’t judge people, they all love this GT, some are patient others are not. Some complain, others are silent. But at the end we have the same passion for this special thrower. If you were one of the lucky ones that got the GT the first week of 2018, be happy, but have some empathy for the ones who have to wait till mid February all though they were in the project from the early beginning.

Yeah, I’m still waiting (patiently?) for mine, but so far no news A friend who lives 200 miles up the road got his almost 2 weeks ago so I was hoping I’d get mine soon.

200 miles up the road, haha great, in my country you’re already outside the Netherlands.... :)

For all waiting, I heard that professor Lumintop made the reflectors nearly perfect now. (It’s a rumor in Guangdong, not know if it’s really true...)

[DB_Custom (Dale)]

If it boils down to the entire process teaching some new techniques that improve the product over the course of this group buy, would it be possible in the end to purchase a new reflector or other parts? I don’t have an issue with my reflector, but am sort of on the OCD side and if there’s a “near perfect” one being made at the end of all this I’d sure like to procure one.

I know Lumintop will want to sit down and take a breather at the end of this, and of course I’ll be in no particular hurry, just saying that it’d be nice if some parts would be individually available.

Seems to me it would have been beneficial to stick to a pre-determined final quantity for the group buy. Be that 555 or 250 or whatever, it did seem to go on a long time and at the back end of it all the numbers of people signing in went a bit crazy. I’d like to see Lumintop make money on these so they will be happy to work with us in the future, hope this “ordeal” hasn’t soured anything.

[ARsee]

+1 Dale

Plus one.

[dougjones31]

I have not been contacted on how to pay yet…… should I still be waiting or did I miss something?

Doh!……
The next group (3rd batch) to purchase lights (#1050 and up on the list or who signed up after 10/23/17) will get their emails late January to early Feb in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.

Sorry….I am retarded……watching LEDs turn on, probably isn’t good for my brain…

[DENGOH]

@Texas_Ace

@Aslan

@Eraursls1984

I wonder how Neal chooses whom to answer, and who does not, he never answered me.

When you have hundreds of messages a day, you simply don’t have time to answer them all. Been there, done that.

You have to scan them and find the ones that you can actually do something about or provide new information to and prioritize those.

Basic status checks and the like make up a large portion of the messages both he and I are getting and there is simply nothing else we can tell you in most cases besides lights are shipping each week.

This reminds me one senior manager once told me he has to spend 4hours everyday just to read and answer emails. Besides quantity is very discouraging, it is also finding correct information part that’s time consuming and might need to confirm with third or fourth persons. Imagine you have to reply all these.

[nodoubt]

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we need beamshots….