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

Nope, I just didn’t proof-read my post…
It was 11th Jan, Last week.
I have done this a few times lately - my brain telling me I need a holiday!

I thought I posted when I received the DHL notification, but not when it arrived.
Although, if you didn’t see it, I may have got distracted and not submitted it.

John.

Cool. At 2200 meters it’s supposed to be 0.25 lux and not very usable, but I can see that water tower just fine. :+1:

From this last shipment so far, only 29 out of 138 people posted that they got tracking or that their light has arrived. All these folks are DHL and international. So where are the other 107? Maybe registered packages that are still enroute? We don’t really know. It’s possible I suppose. Registered mail packages have to ship sometime.

There may also be quite a few people that have received and not posted here

That’s not accurate. Some people have got tracking codes in this third shipment.

As far as professional goes, I don’t know. This is a group buy, not a retail purchase from an online store. (Even then I sometimes get no tracking data :rage: ) I’ve heard of other group buys where no one got any info at all. No shipping updates, no tracking codes, no paid lists, etc… and everyone got their light. So I guess it’s all relative.

I’m sure Neal knows this, but I will pass it along to Texas_Ace who occasionally talks to Neal.

Off the top of your head do you know if any tracking information was sent out by Neal or Lumintop, or are they relying on DHL to send messages to everyone? From memory I’ve only seen people mention they’ve had messages from DHL so far.

How so?

If you were a moderator, how would you not have 15k posts?

I can think of a few times where people bicker that I would like to delete as it’s useless info. We would still have 14,800 posts, though.

Would it be fair to delete posts that are not directly related to the GT? I don’t think so. Then it starts feeling like we are being controlled.

The only moderator here is the forum owner sb56637. As far as I know he has only deleted one post which was a joke that was somewhat slanderous to the forum and it’s reputable members. That’s all I know of. It really is up to us to moderate ourselves.

Luckily this thread will get getting slower and slower as people get their lights. It will fade out like the Q8 thread did.

I have only heard DHL shipments. Even when the old paid list said registered, it was a case where the person changed it to DHL later on.

I really don’t know about the tracking numbers. I personally got a text message from DHL. I’d need to do a search in by his thread to go back and see what people said. I just don’t have time for that right now. Maybe some people that got tracking info can post specifically where it came from.

And wouldn’t expect you to, it is a time consuming task hence why I’m not doing it myself. Just seems od if they’re not supplying the tracking (waybill) number as they get shipped out. Granted I’ve never had to deal with booking hundreds of packages though DHL so I’m not sure how much of a task that would turn out to be.

If the shipping information is being pulled from Paypal at purchase then I’d strongly recommend everyone to check their contact information before paying, namely mobile numbers but of course making sure everything else is correct too.

Controlled… sounds a bit… anarchist… It’d be half that amount… with a a few side threads in the off topic forum.
Self moderation = (apparently) a S* ton of irrelevant posts that make it harder to find nuggets of info. Which in turn leads to people posting and asking about stuff covered pages before.
Hey, most of you like it, but it doesn’t mean it makes this thread any easier to sift through…
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even if they do the group buy, it will be somewhere 1500$, which is…too much for toy

Keep in mind that it will probably be late January/early February before we will send out the PM with the purchasing information. Light production is pretty slow at 150 to 200 per week so we are giving the factory some more time to catch up with the first 850 orders. 500 of those have been sent, so far.

Why cant they just fulfil the 1st and 2nd batch bfore shipping 3rd? February will be coming and chinese new year as we all know will halt production of all things in china for almsot 1month. This should have been US batch and OTHER batch.

Hi Neal/Lumintop… as TA says, you just monitoring this thread like us…

Please, any word about member with registered shipping?

Is its have been ship now?
Why not shipped?
When its will ship?

thanks

Unfortunatelly your post is adding more dificult to the thread……. Its have nothing about GT :weary:

Good!

JasonWW, thanks for helping :wink:

I think what you are describing is exactly what is happening. First 555 paid, then #555 to #1049 paid. That is 850 actual orders. Neal and Lumintop are fulfilling these orders before the next group of #1050 to #17xx are to pay.

:wink: …. Yeah, I know…. the price would still be steep. … :+1:

Just wishful thinking for me ATM anyway……. But… IF I could figure out how to make a little money with it, that would be a different story.

Maybe I could advertise as a ‘Lighting Expert’ , and charge a cash fee to do a lighting analysis of homes & businesses. LOL ……. :wink:

Wishful thinking…… :slight_smile:

My DHL Tracking info came straight from DHL by way of TEXT Message.

  • 1st when picked up in HongKong by DHL
  • 2nd when it arrived in USA
  • 3rd the morning it was loaded on local DHL route truck for final delivery to me. This one asked if it was OK to leave package without signature. I responded YES…IF the driver would call or TEXT when it was delivered. He left it AND sent me a TEXT when it was left at my door.

My experence was perfect & went smoothly.

This is a very good point Umcookies & was stressed in the Payment PM that was sent to each of us.

I am wondering if lack of attention to this detail has anything to do with missing or absent tracking info for some. No way to know of course.

But it appears to me all Tracking Info is coming straight from DHL…. Which makes sense that it would.

  • Neal is not sending it, he does NOT have time to; nor should he be expected to.
  • LUMINTOP is not sending it…. they are not a retail outlet.

It appears, to me anyway; what Tracking Info that has been sent has been sent by TEXT from DHL.
NO emails or PM’s thus far …… only TEXT Message from DHL.

So if cell number is wrong or not avaiable one will probably receive no Tracking Info.

IF Tracking Info was NOT received by some AND cell number WAS avaiable to DHL…… I have no reason or speculation as to why it was not received.
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Edit for UPDATE
Pulsar got email notification that his package had shipped. See post below.