Thorfire / Sofirn / misc retailers sell and ship the light.
BLF members get a special discount.
Thorfire / Sofirn continue to sell the light indefinitely at regular retail price.
The Kickstarter model is typically a bit different:
BLF designs the light.
The lantern project team (LPT) sells the light and collects money. Early backers get a special discount.
LPT pays Thorfire / Sofirn to manufacture the light, and then LPT buys the entire production run.
LPT ships the light to people, or pays Thorfire / Sofirn to do so.
Basically, we’re not using Kickstarter because we’re not personally trying to make a profit on it. We’re just trying to make something nice for people, and to encourage flashlight companies to be more involved in the community in the future.
Just bought Sofirm AAA twisties but Sofirm/AliExpress would not give me the discount.
If I can get a discounted price on these lanterns, I will buy two. If not, I won’t.
I truly appreciate the work folks are putting on here to bring out a good lantern, but to jump through hoops to pay full price doesn’t seem right. Just my opinion.
You have already done what you need to do by asking to be put on the list…. sbslider will confirm when he sees your post. Welcome to BLF and as Dale says…. hide your wallet.
Hello. I just joined the forum, but I have been stalking here quite a bit before buying my current stable of two S2+, and pretty much everything made by Emisar Anyway, this project sounds really great, and useful for me, so I was wondering if I could be placed on the ” I’m interested” list!
Thanks all
miniUSB is dead since 2014. It’s hard to find an cable for it in local stores.
It will be the next thing for sure, all smartphone brands will switch to USB-C in the next years.
I guess everyone want’s to have a long lasting lantern which will be compatible to the standards used in 5 and even ten years. This doesn’t include microUSB.
.
.
Hey! Welcome to BLF! From your post, it looks like you’re already off to a great start in your collection. You will surely be added to the list at its next update.
Considering the recent turn the project took (altered driver design with dropped power bank function) I think it would make sense to start a separate interest list for the deluxe version.
There are probably a significant number of members who expected this feature, and due to its removal are no longer interested in the current version, but are willing to wait for the second iteration. I am one of those users, and I am pretty sure I am not alone