*BLF LT1 Lantern Project) (updated Nov,17,2020)

Thank you :+1:

Whilst waiting for my own PMs (first slot at #876), I’ve been trying to work out how far the PM process has got from what people are reporting here. It helps me hang onto my patience :slight_smile:

If Sofirn is only making 3000 and they are the ones who set this up and are not confirming that the buyers are actually who they say they are AND not limiting them to one per request then I think they should make as many as they need to in order to cover everyone who played by the rules.

I will be interested in hearing if Sofirn will still cover everyone on here who has played by the rules and more so those who participated in the thread donating valuable time to make the LT1 what it is.

And YES, what Alex did was what I was referring to earlier when I didn’t repeat the fact that <<< edited >>>> and scam it.

Now this will be a giant cluster for Sofirn for allowing these loopholes when SIG had it under control.

I hope Sofirn will close this loophole asap AND make as many units as it takes to cover the legit 3000 on here since << edited >>> some slipped through

After reading what Alex did, (use another BLF member’s name to cheat the group-buy & order two LT1s with the group-buy price) then be sly to wait until his lanterns shipped before posting what he did here I forwarded a message to Barry asking him to immediately stop the group-buy until they fix the loophole issue, I also forwarded the Posts by Alex to sb56637.

Thanks DBSAR.

I knew this would happen. I would have been less concerned IF legit GB members were just jumping line and pushing others back, but knowing that any number of the 7.7 billion people on earth with $50 in their hand could order meant that those toward the last half of the group buy would not get one at all!

This is why we can’t have nice things.

The Alex bronson account and posts have been removed. Please go back and edit out the part of your posts that quoted him.

:+1: I agree ……… it would have been nice if they just sat back and watched how BLF would have ‘completed’ the project and use that as a ‘working’ template for their future GBs.

Fortunately, Sofirn did a 500-unit first run (instead of hammering the full 3000 out in one go), so the maximum damage is limited. The remaining 2500 can still be authenticated using whatever improved system Sofirn come up with.

Even if every single one of the first 500 lanterns had gone to fraudsters, the absolute worst case would be that Sofirn had to make an extra 500 lanterns available at the group buy price.

Me too. Thanks a lot to Sofirn and to all of our BLF members that are cultivating a good professional relationship with them.

thankful there is at least one smart person around who took the bull by the horns……

Just because it has “shipped” doesn’t mean that it’s out of Sofirns building. My light was 4 days between “shipping” and being picked up by the carrier. Maybe they can find it in the shipment and ship it to a rightful owner. Maybe.

I don’t think the shipment can be stopped since Sofirn doesn’t know who a legit BLF user is and who isn’t. All they are going on is whether the user name is on the list or not.

I suspect that the vast majority of the batch 1 lanterns have gone (or will go) to a legit BLF user. Whether that person is in the first 500 or not is another story.

I’m hopeful that things will go much smoother after batch 1 based on some ideas we’ve been kicking around.

:+1:

I think someone said Sofirn would need to associate the username with email address or last name but that is unnecessary.
They’re already associating BLF username with unique Amazon code which they are sending to BLF users as private messages.
So only thing they need to change is the approval method of Ebay and AliExpress purchases.
Instead of user telling them their BLF username, user needs to tell them their unique Amazon code.

And if they want to prevent double dipping then obviously after user completes Ebay or AE purchase they need to deactivate that code on Amazon and mark it as used in their list.

Not perfect but probably good enough for this group buy.

Yes, clearly that is one way to control things. A central database would be the most efficient means of doing this but even manual controls would work assuming everyone is in the same location and working off the same lists.

Anyone know what point we are at?

What number are we at for who has and who hasn't been sent codes.

Or who has ebayed or not?

Unknown at this time, as Barry or Sofirn has not indicated to us if all of the first batch has been ordered (or codes/messages sent out for all of them) as of yet.

Just ordered mine with batteries through the Amazon AU store with coupon code, thanks to the team for putting in this massive effort to make undoubtedly the best LED lantern money can buy.

Hopefully the drama in the last few days won’t affect my order.

Will the second batch be different than the first?
I already ordered 1 (of 2 on the list#193&#361) trough ebay (is in shipping) but also have another code for amazon.de. But I would like to purchase a green colored version 2 for the groupbuy price and have someone above #500 get theirs sooner. Is that an option?

I got my code but it doesn’t work