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

Thank you for the warm welcome.

- Is that the M4D M4X group buy as stated in post #1 which you refer to? - Confused. Apologies if I am asking a question which is by now clear to others.

My aim is indeed to buy / have shipped the cells separate.

Cheers.

I just got through seeing & playing with my cousins GT a bit earliet. . :open_mouth:

I am speechless!!! . :smiley: . This thing is a Monster……… . :+1:

Yes, I think it’s the same.
Samsung 35E seem ideal, high mAh and good amps.
M4D M4X is doing a groupbuy, here.

Please add me to the list for 1 BLF-GT.
Thanks for all the work that’s gone into this!

Coyotehawk will add you to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime early next month when you are contacted with the details of where to go and how to order.

If you plan to buy batteries, please sign up for them in the Madmax link I have on every page. This let’s the guys know how many sets they need to keep on hand.

Welcome to BLF.

I have got to be one of the world’s stupidest people.

More 1,000 people have managed to sign up for the GT, so what is my problem?

I read the OP to the this thread four times. I read post #1 of of the thread at this link thread four times.

I verified the way the first five posts are used in that thread matches the explanation provided in post #1 of that thread and how this thread is slightly different and the difference is not confusing me.

I understand how the lists for the group buy work. 555 lights will be sold for $111, the rest on the list will be able to buy for $150. I understand that once on the list, there will be PMs sent to me with details on what I need to do to complete my order. I understand that I will be added to the list if I ask to be added. I understand the wisdom of patience as the process unfolds and am certain I can be patient. I trust everything about this project and I know nothing is perfect and think that is awesome. I understand that the following words will work when asking to be added to the list:“I want one.”

I understand being on the list will lead to me getting instructions via PM that when followed will result in a GT arriving at my house. In fact

I want one.

I want to be added to the list.

Here is what I do not see or understand:

I do not see or understand WHERE or to WHAT ADDRESS I must send or post the words

“I want one.”

Is this the right place?

I understand that if this is the right place, I am going onto the list, whether my question receives an answer or not.

However I would very much appreciate an answer and and if possible, a pointer to where the information is posted so I can find out how I missed it.

Thank you.

This project is super awesome. The expertise of the leaders is fantastic. The GT is best in the world for what its purpose is.

I want one, please.

Thank you again. I wish I was not so stupid. I hate being stupid.

Yep, this is the right place. Now that we’ve posted here, we need to be patient and wait to be PM’d for payment details. (In the next month or so, from what I understand.)

Please JasonWW, Do not delete your posts
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Yes, this is the right place to say if you want one.
Coyotehawk will add you to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime early next month when you are emailed with the details of where to go and how to order.

If you plan to buy batteries, please sign up for them in that link I have. This let’s the guys know how many sets they need to keep on hand.

Welcome to BLF.

You post your interest in this thread.

Which you did.

And WELCOME to BLF!

Just my extra posts to Kindle and Racoon City. Not all my posts.


UPDATES: It appears that the first couple of shipments are going out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.

The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 550th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th.

A second shipment of lights (size unknown) shipped Dec 27. Location unknown. No tracking numbers recieved yet.

There should be a European order going out in January.


BLF GT official support thread


Nvanlaar’s links.

The Millers Original Group Buy List ending on Nov 11 and #1213

Coyotehawk’s Continuation of the Group Buy List, starting Nov 11 and #1214 - Updated Dec 27

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Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 - Updated Dec 15

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for #556 to #1038 - Updated Dec 10 or 12.

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M4D M4X: For all people who want to let us know the value that should be declared on the parcels:
please take the BLF GT customs declaration survey.

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Samsung 35E seem ideal, high mAh and good amps.
M4D M4X is doing a groupbuy, here.

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Video of Drop Test

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O.K.

I got a notice of shipment via DHL a few days ago (USA) but tracking number doesn’t work yet, I guess its not actually been sent yet? I’m in no real rush, but would just like to know what others experience is.

New “ Drop test report “dropped a piece of the flashlight on my toe thank God it was just tail cap but even that hurts :slight_smile:

Mine showed up today. It is a ridiculously large and amazing light. It really takes two hands to hold.

Yes, i have four 1.2kg flashlights for 4 years and i think i am prepared for GT. This 2.2kg GT will really make flasholics beginners either amazed or regret.

Not exactly; I have a tracking number. I’ve posted this at least twice. I received a notification from Neal that my light (I ordered cells) shipped on the 28th. Its somewhere between Boston and my AO (Area of Operation) (I assume it’s in Augusta [30 miles away] but hasn’t gone through a scanner yet) and is scheduled to be delivered on Tuesday.

I suspect, but I have no proof, that folks in the USA who ordered their lights with cells are being used for “filler” on pallets. That would explain why I have my tracking number. I think I was early on the paid list in the USA and wanting cells (maybe first?). It would make sense to me that yes, they would fill a pallet, but it would also make sense that identical packages with the same weight and destination would be processed at the same time. I assume mine was just “filler” and a one off. But now they know what that order weighs and the rest will follow smoothly. At least that’s how I’d do it if I was shipping what they are. I’d make it easy on myself and clump similar orders/weights/destinations together. But I have no inside information.

Let’s look at it logically… to the USA they have packages w/o cells and packages with cells. Two weights. Processing them as a group is easy. Processing them as individuals adds complexity. How would you do it as a shipper? I think I fell through a crack to fill a need on their part with my oddball order (for that pallet).

Apologies to the folks in other countries, but the fact is that the USA is a huge market for the Chinese and if one is filling a pallet Tano Tuva just doesn’t require a pallet. Order more lights from your country (or increase the population) and you’d get your own pallet. Don’t blame us. It makes sense for Neal to fill the most orders as easily as he can first, then take the time to fill orders that require individual attention. It’s the way you’d also do it if you were in his shoes. It greatly reduces the amount of complaints that are time related by taking care of the biggest market first. Like it or not, he did it correctly from a business standpoint and to reduce the number of inquiries.

Hey! I also ordered batteries with my light but so far I have not heard anything regarding shipment yet

I want my light too!

No, everyone that recieved the tracking info on the 27th has a light from that first shipment. They started showing up on the 29th. So yours is on the way.


Okay, I probably skipped past the part were you said you ordered batteries.

I think your the only person to get a tracking number who has ordered batteries. I assume it’s from that first order, from the 23rd, though. Maybe they messed up and left out the batteries? I’m curious to find out. Let us know when you receive it.

BrianK, I think our lights are in Boston from what I can tell. Mine was supposed to be here yesterday, but now I have to wait until Tuesday… Hopefully Tuesday…