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

Every now and then I hear about this, and it’s been confusing me for a while.

Economy wise, isn’t it even less ideal to have spent the money on something that may arrive in a few months than have the funds sitting idle on a PP account? Not that even that would be ideal at all.

However, why would someone transfer money to PP just waiting for something to be available for purchase? Don’t you have any Visa or MC debit or credit cards? PP takes these. It’s really convenient to just spend the amount through one of these when you buy something instead of making a transfer to PP beforehand. It’s never really necessary to give PP cash if you’re just looking to buy something. Just wondering.

Finally got around to ordering mine, with batteries and donation for a few beers. :slight_smile:

Keisari,

I am a seller on Ebay
and I do not “link” my credit cards to paypal
I only transfer money out of Paypal for items I sell directly to my bank
I do not like leaving funds in the PP account,
the only way I can add funds to paypal is when I sell something

Hi,
if it’s really an issue for lumintop i’m fine to have both mine shipped by DHL.

so that would be 14,96$, 9$, 23.96$

(14,96 to mach my first paypal payment)

Anyway, not in a hurry, it’ll be there when it’s there ;-).

Thanks again for the team for all their efforts.

Hopefully we will have some news from Neal later today… It’s half past 5pm in China right now

Received another text from FedEx on Saturday, saying my package would be delivered on 02.02.2018. Got around to checking it today and it was sent back to the sender again, once more without leaving HK.
I am still waiting for a specific explanation from FedEx.

Can i change my Declared Value in the table to less suspicious value, like 36.77$
Thank

Are you sure you’ve not pissed someone off at FedEx and they are getting back at you?

Hello, I do not understand how certified mail is more expensive than DHL, buy several times to lumintop from your page on Aliexpress, mails are always more expensive by mail as DHL, FEDEX, TNT, for example SD75 is sent only by some of these and Its shipping value is higher than 40 dollars, at least in my particular case it is like that, and it can be verified on the Ali page. The main reason why I choose to send registered mail is because, once I bought with DHL and I never received the package, I was detained in the customs of the capital of my country more than 1800 km from my house, I could only personally withdraw, this is the way in which DHL works here, to all other international shipments pay a customs tariff of 50% + 7 dollars of the local mail service, said this seems quite irresponsible as things are handled, not know how it will affect the shipping system before offering a product ………, I think it is more an excuse on the part of someone who does not specify, greetings!

Because most lights are only a few hundred grams, the GT is a few thousand.

“Normal” mail systems are great at handling small packages but suck at handling large ones. So for larger packages it is almost always cheaper and easier to go with a company like UPS, fedex or DHL. The only question is what that cross-over point is. I generally find in the US it is around 3-4lb.

Also they can’t ship the GT in one package with registered mail, so that means they have to pay for shipping twice.

Also, for those not aware the size of the box can be more important then the weight in some cases when it comes to the cost to ship it.

Get your conclusions, I have no complaint regarding the time of sending this is how it is, but the issue of sending certified emails … seems like an excuse, I’m sorry to say it and please do not take this as a attack, greetings!

I dont think its helping that people request custom numbers for their shipping value.
Maybe Lumintop will let people change to DHL. But i dont think they will give everybody different numbers. Just to much work for lumintop.

The SD75 is about half the size of the GT, double the size and the price increase will go up as well.

Then factor in 2 packages for the registered mail and you can quickly see how it would cost the same or more.

I have shipped over 25k orders over the years, I have dealt with a lot of shipping companies. I can tell you from experience that things change a heck of a lot when you go from 1-2lb to 5lb+. I use completely different services with 5lb packages then I do with small ones.

Although cost is not the primary delay with the registered shipping, it was just a factor that effects some countries.

There are permit issues, customs issues and logistics issues they are having to sort out as well. Plus the size and weight limits registered mail has are complicating things as well.

Thus far I have not heard anything from them that does not line up with my own experiences with shipping. They just have the added complexities of a communists state in the mix (which is something that they are having to deal with).

But they have a way or company to send to us after those reflector coming or they are dealing with it yet?

They are working on it. Neal thinks they should have it figured out by the time the reflectors show up this week and hopes they will be able to have them shipped either this week or early next week.

I have not heard anything since this.

Hi i want buy BLF GT i want to be put on the list
Thank you in advance
baljak78@gmail.com

Thanks, hopefully our light can shipped in registered mail without issues :+1:

The list do not exist anymore, you can only buy from a member or two months lather direct with lumintop.

Lumintop sells their lights by giant AliExpress. These guys are bigger than Amazon. They maybe have subsidized deals with China post. You can’t compare Lumintop with AliExpress. I think I would be better to let AE deal with shipping to Europe, but this is a GB deal with Lumintop, so maybe this is not possible or something.

That has got to be either a permit issue regarding LT shipping Li-Ions or a labelling issue regarding shipping Li-Ions, as if it were a value issue the package would arrive at UK customs & the problem would be with UK customs.
From what TA has said it sounds like LT still have a problem with permits ?