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

According to Neal all US orders have shipped, from a message I received around 4 AM EST January 19th.

Keep in mind that this can mean “all the US orders are about to ship”.

Some things get lost in translation. Although generally when I hear this the shipment is confirmed a few days later, so expect it to indeed be shipped shortly if not already.

This is something I will ask about along with the xhp70.2 mcpcb’s once the GB is closer to being complete.

Indeed, there are days where I easily spend 4+ hours just dealing with messages and such. Back when the payments were happening it was basically an all day, every day job to keep up with everything. Good thing I happened to be off work then.

Neal gets way more messages then me, I have no idea how he keeps up as good as he does.

Keep in mind only a fairly small percentage of that wattage is exiting via the beam. A good estimate is between 10-30%.

So figure that the current will drop in a hurry and an more realistic wattage is around ~110W average over the time it would take to heat something.

And you get 15-40W worth of power for heating something with the beam.

Now the body of the light would be much more effective for heating something but it would be much harder to get access to that heat.

I read all the time that Neal gets hundreds of mails and messages every day. How do you know that TA? Are we all sending him mails and messages the whole day? Not me. Does he have so much customers that he receives that much mail? I had a great running business, but I didn’t get hundreds of mails every day. I guess Neal is a busy man, but ain’t we all?

I wonder if they could offer their xhp35 mcpcb as well? This makes it easier for folks to swap in a different tint or a HD version.

/\\\ +1

He may not get that many every single day anymore but back in December he was. He has not been around as much since his wedding. I would still easily estimate 100 messages a day for him based on how many I am getting. Still I can easily get 25-50 messages a day not even inducing this thread.

Figure each message can take 2-4 minutes to reply to depending on what the question is and that is ~2 hours a day easy just for messages. Which sounds about right. Generally have to spend all my free time in the morning on this GB and then catch up again at night if I have time.

Heck I would easily wake up to 100+ messages daily for most of December and I get a lot less then he does. He is the one that had to deal with all the payments, address, phone number, and other emails and questions + the normal direct questions from people, I just had to deal with direct questions from people.

I also ran an online business and got way less emails per sale then this, this is the nature of a GB like this, it takes WAY more time and effort then just selling something on a commercial website. Which is why a lot of companies won’t do them or need someone else to handle all these details for them to agree to do it.

Plus some decisions that were made early on caused us a lot of extra work here at the end. Things will be different for any future GB’s.

Yeah, I understand that’s been a huge effort for everyone in the team. But I am hoping now things are a bit back to normal. But it’s good to evaluate this at the end of the GB. This GT seems very popular, I guess more than expected. That means a lot of extra work and pressure.

Any info on when the registered shipping to Europe will start?

Supposedly registered mail starts shipping with the next batch. We have no idea where they will be going or in what order though. Although we are only a few weeks away from all orders shipping so not a big deal to worry about at this point.

Thanks!

TA , any possibillity to make a short battery tube ?

So ony i carrier can be used . I don’t know about other people but i would take one .

It is another thing to talk to lumintop about once the GB is finished.

Good to know .

Thanks again for all the help with xhp70.2 mcpcbs too , let’s hope they will help us :wink:

gregor, 116 on the list
till now I did not get any info that GT was shipped to me
not very happy :cry:
EU, Slovenia

who should I contact if I want to get info when my GT will be shipped, is this even possible or do I have to silently wait, maybe it will arrive in February, maybe April, maybe….??

kind regards

You live in the “neighborhood”. :slight_smile: I live in Hungary. Unfortunately, delivery is still in progress. Maybe we get it now.

I really hope so. I don’t like the fact that all FL were first shipped to US, and smaller countries are on the end. Not the right approach. We paid the same money as everybody else in US…

If only 2 or 3 people from our country ordered this FL, and from US - 350 people, I don’t care. Delivery shold be made acording to GB list. Now people which are on the list 800+ already have this FL, me which was on 116 place still do not know when FL will arrive.

It’s the same for us The Neterlands we were also on the list of 500 but still no info or FL GT received…
So The Netherlands also to small :frowning: