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

are you at home?

2018-02-21 11:13

The item has been delivered successfully

He’s obviously not at home :smiley: , But GT currently is there :beer:

Thanks for checking :slight_smile:

No, I’m at work at school, superintending a couple of pupils doing a test atm who are trying to determine the iodine content of betadine (and I’m surfing BLF :innocent: :person_facepalming: ). It must be delivered to one of my neighbours (in the appartment complex where I live we all receive packages for each other, so that is perfectly fine).

Ha, this is the true BLF spirit over here, Martin checking the parcels of Jos :wink:
I love that spirit!

Biology teacher Djozz?

No, teaching assistent (TOA). But biologist by background.

Batteries and body arrived today. Packaging damaged here too, as You and one other posted stated before.
It is a good amount of moisture, probably dropped too.

This is a pic from the Carrier.
This end was on the “dropped” end of packet but I would not take a guess if its from manufacturing or if its from dropping.
Does not seem to be significant anyway…
Damn can´t open manual, it´s sludge….Lol.

“The END”. Anodizing has taken some hit. Again impossible to say if it´s from shipping or if it was there.
This was on the “intact” end of packaging.

BUT:

THERE WAS THAT ONE THIN layer of bubble wrap, so that the moisture DID NOT get to batteries.
(To be honest, if I was shipping these, I would probably use a lot more)
Batteries would have maybe survived some moisture but I don´t like the idea of getting them wet & rusty on the contacts.
Just to be clear: All Batteries were dry, unharmed and at decent storage voltage.

Damn, looks like savages handled those packages!

Oh, what a massacre. And I thought that only the couriers in my country do not care about packages.

I get “bruised” of damaged packets quite rarely.
From all orders they are maybe a couple of %. In most orders they dont matter at all (non-fragile).

Keeping a considerable amount of fingers now crossed, that the Head is not broken, it will arrive a bit later, maybe in 2 days. :weary:

GT arrived in Belgium, completely f*cked packaging, it’s a wonder the head was still in the box, the manual is pulp too, but the light survived fine :slight_smile:

I can’t remember if we can download the manual somewhere ?

EDIT, found manual and support thread : BLF GT official support thread [FAQ updated 11 Jan 2018]

I’ve never seen or received such damaged and wet parcels… that’s quite extraordinary. It seems the belgium post has some underwater carriers? Or the parcels get conveyed through sewage pipes or something? Is there a smell? :person_facepalming:

They can be damaged elsewhere also, who knows and most likely impossible to ever know it for certain.

There is no smell
(I´m basically a human with a dogs nose. …and for the next question you´re going to ask: no, I don´t sniff them) :smiley:

Just received my GT and batteries a few minutes ago (via registered mail). It was packaged similar to the others who received it the last few days but the parcels were fine and had no trace of damage or moist. Btw, I giggled like a little girl the first time I picked up the light, it is HUGE :smiley: .

Today I received the 2 carton boxes by post.
Wauw :smiley: it’s awesome after so long waiting.
I’m happy that my 2 boxes were okay not too much damaged.
The GT head looks very very nice.
The body with the batteries they are okay and also no damage.
I didn’t have to sign for it, and paid no V.A.T or whatever GREAT!!
Tonight I am gone try and see how it will shine!!!

Nice to see them all turning up for you guys, even if the packaging was a bit pants. Sadly……

Try to move on and just enjoy the GT - pondering on the negative :rage: is just going to impact on your positive :smiley: time with your new toy.
Get the batteries in, go out for a walk with the family/friends/dog and go out and enjoy what you’ve waited so long for, forget those wet boxes!

Received mine today! Packaging just as all from the latest batch, poor. But mine came in undamaged :slight_smile:

Just got one battery carrier, with 4 batteries. The second one is missing, will contact Neal.

17 years ago I worked at fed ex ground part time while in college. My first day on the sorting and truck loading line I came to a couple of well packaged parcels that were marked FRAGILE. I asked the supervisor if a different procedure was needed and he said no no those are going to the country of Fra grille and tossed them roughly into a truck. I smiled and got to work because speed was the only variable I needed to worry about. That company culture was ever present there and I have never knowingly used fedex since.

Mine arrived a couple of minutes ago! Jay!!!
And there is more good news: no fingerprints on the lens or reflector, no bad ano spots, led very nicely centered, it works and the beam is perfect and has a great color.
I love 4000K!
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Downsides?
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Uhm……yes, the packaging was so basic its a wonder it arrived without dents or scratches.
I got two seperate boxes, one containing the head and one containing the tube + batt. carriers.
The head was protected buy a plastic fil on the lens and threee pieves of thin foam between lens and cardboard box.
Around the rest of the light was only air, nothing else, nothing the keep it from moving around in the box……… :person_facepalming:
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The batt. tube was in a seperate box with only the orings and a small leaflet for protection…… :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
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On top of that: both boxes had some heavy duty staples in them, of which the bare and quiitge sharp points wwere sticking out on
the inside of the boxes…………… :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
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But, luckily it still came to me in very good condition, I guess I was lucky, but this way to send the light from China to The Netherlands
is an absolute NO GO!!! :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:
It could have reached me with dents and scratches very easily.
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OK, so now I’m going outside to play with my new toy. :+1: :+1: :+1:
Very dark night with no fog at all. :+1: :+1:
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Cheers,
Nico
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“Basic cardboad boxes with no filling”:

“Staples sticking out……”:

Drat, just missed the mailguy the end of the afternoon! (He was too early) Have to pick it up tomorrow (2 parcels)

Did you receive two battery carriers and 8 batteries?