No it’s not the same situation as this light. Whilst it would be nice to have this one already I am not really concerned about it and have no doubt it will get to me when it’s ready, it’s just hearing those same words brings back memories haha
With that group buy it was limited to 400 units with serial numbers on each light. I had ordered two sets, number 19 and number 150 on the list and as such was supposed to get two X5/X6 sets with numbers 19 of 400 and 150 of 400 in matching timber display cases. I paid within an hour of the link going live and paid a lot extra for an upgraded shipping option which was only supposed to take like 3 days. Weeks went by and the tracking numbers never worked so I asked and asked and asked and everyone just kept telling me they would arrive just to be patient. Eventually someone at Banggood finally looked into it and told me my lights never got shipped and were no longer available. By that stage almost all of the stock had sold out and all they could offer me was some individual lights with all random high serial numbers and there were no timber boxes left. It was a disappointing experience.
You will get the light, not to worry. It is only a question of time.
Once they catch up on the orders we will take a headcount to see if anyone was missed and ship out lights as needed. I would be surprised if at least 1 person was not missed with all the hands the shipping and order information has to jump through with the current system.
This is why for the next GB I want it all automated, remove the human hands and about 90% of the hassle, work and issues we are dealing with along with it.
Luckily we are getting close, a few more weeks and things should be basically caught up and then we can start really looking into any possible issues.
Not that they love the USA so much as they love DHL and most of the DHL shipments are going to the USA.
It is perfectly understandable as well, I have yet to hear about a real issue with the DHL shipping but I know that the registered mail will have issues, it always does.
No one is looking forward to dealing with those issues.
I am also wanting to get some of these as well, got a boost driver I am about to start playing with and I really like these.
Although I have been talking to Neal about them and he actually found an even better LED option that he tried to send me for testing but sadly it was lost along the way.
If they test well they should be a very good XHP35 option and could even make it into the next round of GT’s if they test very good. They are 4500k vs 4000k.
I’d also like mine to be 4500k, but already got my light :person_facepalming:
If this led option becomes standard, I would love to be able to buy one on LED board. I would also be interested in getting a new reflector if they improve the quality. Not that mine is horrible, but would like it as good as possible
And this is exactly what it is, as a blf member that chose registered mail because this great dhl let us pay 55 dollar extra in Europe, I don’t feel represented by the team in this case. I can wait, no problem, but I don’t like misinformation. Lumintop should not offer registered mail if they don’t want to use it. It’s a bit strange, all my other lights came with registered mail without problems and with tracking.
Up to #1049, which is only about 850 orders. Once these are all shipped, or almost all shipped, Texas_Ace will decide when to send out the PM for the last group of people to purchase.
I’m very sure that is not what is happening, as Bozlight pointed out, chinese sellers have no problem using registered shipping. What is way more likely is that they (Neal? Lumintop?) have simply not figured out how to do the double packaging, and like everyone who is not facing consequences for the way they do things (things are handled in a random way until it is directly affected by money, reputation in China is not highly regarded) ; the easy stuff is done first.
In shipping, none of the BLF group buys went well so the BLF teams organising them should be frank about that: it comes when it comes, in random and unfair order.
(although they never promised complete fairness, the GT team expected shipping to be smoother than it went)
You were not responding to me but your post does apply: I think that many people, like me, and the GT-team, think extremely positive about this group buy (and regularly post about it ) but at the same time are a bit disappointed about how the shipping goes and showing that as well.
LOL, for flashoholics no flashlight is just a flashlight :party: