You are such a saint I guess we should be thanking you. Your best bet is to just remove your post because realistically this cant be fixed in any reasonable way (much like your morals, lol)
Savage. I figured this would happen. Hopefully you didn’t screw over the person’s name you used. I wonder if Sofirn even has the time to compare all of the orders to each other. Such as if you were to order from Aliexpress, could you double order and also use Ebay or Amazon? Or all 3? I don’t even think they would know. Well, I condemn you for doing that but appreciate you being honest about it.
Thanks for fessing up Alex^ I’m not smart enough to do that. As an FYI to anyone #596 here, paid for mine 2 days back off Amazon. Someone please give Sofirn a heads up that the codes they are sending out don’t seem to be needed. At least in Alex’s case.
They’ve let my eBay offer expire twice. I have told them my BLF ID, each time. Guess I won’t be buying a lantern.
Same here. Trying the AE method currently.
This happened to me. I assumed they checked the list and I was too far down the list to buy yet.
Could this kind of thing be the cause of these cancelled orders?
Or maybe because Alex and/or others that he mentioned literally stole your spot! :rage:
Why are people thanking Alex?
There are plenty of us smart enough to think of that. Most of us are honest enough not to do it.
Why on earth would you then publish it?
Alex could have PM’d the idea to DBSAR so he could warn Sofirn.
It is just a light. Wait your turn.
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I am not thanking Alex, after reading what he did, (use another BLF member’s name to cheat the group buy & order two LT1s, then be sly to wait until his lanterns shipped before posting what he did here. i withdrew my reply to him, and I forwarded a message to Barry about the issue, I also forwarded the Posts by Alex to sb56637.
Always one bad apple who ruins the entire bunch. Punishing everybody because of Alex doesn’t fix the problem. Let’s call it what it is… There are so many loopholes and ways to cheat this groupbuy it isn’t funny. It would take forever to backtrack to see who did what, and ordered what from where with who’s blf id. It’s just not feasible. Might as well just ask Sofirn to add another 500 to the groupbuy and keep it going. That way all of the original people on the list can still get one.
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I think adding more lights to the group buy is a reasonable ‘fix’ for the situation.
Not iffn Aholex stole your ID/number and used it causing Sifirn to cross those two stolen spots off the list. The victim would never know.
For example: If I’m on the list for one lantern, and I decide I want 3, what’s to stop my from ordering one on Amazon, one on Ebay, and one on Aliexpress? I seriously doubt they are keeping records of people ordering on multiple platforms.
That’s my point. So rather than crossing names off the list and such, just open up the groupbuy entirely. Add another 500-1000 units and regardless if a name has been crossed off due to already having a purchase, let them purchase again.
Like Alex said, he’s not the only person to think of this. He’s probably correct in assuming it’s been done dozens of times already. That would explain why some people low on the list still haven’t been sent a code, because their name may have already been used.
I mean in reality, this growing list is quite old as is this project. There could be a few members that were originally in the first 500 that may not even be in the forum anymore. May not be able to afford it anymore. May not need or want it anymore. Who knows.
I respect everyone involved in this awesome project. Even more so after reading they were not paid or even given a lantern for their efforts. They volunteered a ton of time and effort into this project so we as blfers could enjoy it. I just don’t find it feasible to backtrack and fix all this. Perhaps I’m wrong. All I know is I’ve enjoyed buying from quite a few groupbuys and they have always been in the format of a single code, with the item delivered in order of who purchases first, not who signs up as interested first.
The Alex bronson account and posts have been removed. Please go back and edit out the part of your posts that quoted him.
That is what we’re hoping, is Sofirn can fix the GB issue and make sure everyone on the list gets to order their lights, the issue now is members loosing their “spot” for the purchases that require their user-names because someone outside the forum ended up using their name at random.
For that to happen, someone from inside the forum would have to give that information to someone outside of the forum correct? Or can people who don’t create a username still log in and read the forums? I can’t remember how it works tbh.