Reading your last post and seeing this picture tells it all. Nice bar by the way :sunglasses: . It’s very nice to have someone so enthousiastic about lanterns bringing this ultimate lantern to BLF. Beer
Really nice to see how this light comes to light. It looks great and it would be very nice to see it coming before the camping season. I can’t wait to use it on holiday with my loved ones. But hey, no stress. It’s a hobby and its’s done when it’s done.
Den, this is an opportunity to grow BLF by wooing new members from CPF. They are already droves of new members from this project. Some will fit in and stick around, others will flake away. But this will make BLF a greater community. This will translate into larger group buys, (and hence better discounts), more ideas and greater clout when dealing with manufacturers and vendors.
If this project was cloned on CPF all of this would be lost and many of the project’s admin efforts would be duplicated.
I say this with all due respect to CPF, but these projects are a result of this forum’s openness - So all the spoils should go to the victor.
I have a few questios about the group buy. Asked DBSAR about it and he said other members of the project could answer it better; and the answers may be useful for other people.
1 - Which are the payment methods? Does it includes PayPal?
2 - Where is it going to ship from? Would be useful to know if they exclude some places for shipping.
3 - Is there some way we can calculate shipping costs, or some chart with shipping rates?
I expect those are questions that do not have a specific answer until the lanterns are in production. Look at other BLF-Sofirn projects for possible selling options.