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

Take it easy on that POST button :smiley:

Yes I filled out the customs form , but there was nothing at all on the box at all to say value, simply a royal mail 48 tracked sticker, it literally looks like someone in the UK sent it! ( I have never had anything from China without customs labels on, weird? I am certainly not complaining :smiley: )and no I didn’t have batteries.

Something wrong with the site this morning NikolaS - it’s very slow and jerky, I had real trouble posting, it took several attempts. I even shut the browser down and restarted it, but made no difference.

Royal mail tracking shows “out for delivery today”

I feel quite emotional.

Mine was delivered about an hour ago :+1:
Got 8 x 30Q”s on charge as we speak.
I took some pics of unboxing but for some reason dropbox is not syncing them to my laptop.
Anyway fit & finish is very good, everything is very clean & dust free, threads are smooth & lubed, there are some light machining marks on the reflector but nothing of any concern & the led is well centered.
If I can get the pics to upload to my lap top I will post them but it is safe to say that I am a happy bunny.
Oh by the way the light is HUGE :slight_smile:
Big :+1: to Lumintop & the team, especially TA :slight_smile:

Are theses gt’ that are arriving in the uk sent by registered mail or dhl?

Mine should have been registered mail but as it left Hong Kong on the 12th & is with me on the 19th it obviously was not sent as registered mail as that takes at least 4-6 weeks.
Also there is no mention of it coming from China on the box, in fact it looks like it was shipped from a London address.









Mine is probably arriving this week too. Finnish Posti tracking service now shows 1 out of 2 Malaysia Post shipments and says “item arrived in the destination country” today.

I don’t know if there are several definitions for “registered mail” but I always thought it just means a postal service that is more than a simple letter, as in having a tracking code. Whether a retail company arranges the tracking information to be handed out to the customer beforehand is whole another issue. :) I think a lot of the time(with dx, bg, gb etc) the only difference is if tracking number is given to the customer, and the mail service is the same. I sometimes receive stuff that was not supposed to have tracking and I did not have it - but a notice with tracking numbers shows up and a signature is needed at the post office.

I also thought the “alternative shipping option” for “2 parcels by registered mail” originally just meant that one could ask not to be shipped DHL but instead via a traditional mail service. Not necessarily something that always takes 4-6 weeks, while I was prepared for that. Now it seems it’s taking a total of about about 8-10 working days for my shipment to arrive, and for some UK members ~5-6 working days. That is fast but not unheard of. In my limited experience about 1/3 of Asian mail shipments arrive in just over a week, most takes 2-4 weeks and sometimes it takes 4-6 weeks.

I have always understood that registered mail from China or Hong Kong is via sea as opposed to air : ie the slow boat from China that is often referred to.
Maybe I am wrong.
Either way this light has taken 7 days to get from Hong Kong to me :+1:

I received my GT today, 2 parcel registered, it had a pretty big nick, charging 30q batteries to try it, it’s a monster in size, just showing it to 2 people made them laugh out loud.

Big smiles from UK as I am now in possession of my GT. Cells on the chargers, cannot wait. Thanks team.

Tracking says mine is delivered! I get to continue the agonising wait because I’m abroad with work for another couple of weeks :stuck_out_tongue:

GT arrived today, without any extra letters re customs.

Considering HK customs seemed intent on me not having it, sending it back THREE times, I’d say it’s been a relatively quick process.

Thanks to all involved, can’t wait for a large search at night to come in at work so I can use it properly :slight_smile:

DHL announced my package to arrive tommorow - handling in Germany seems to be via Sun Logistik Service GmbH!

No clou if they want ‘extra money’ from me!

On it goes …

Bear in mind it’s not unheard of for delivery companies (DHL especially) to send an invoice a few weeks after delivery asking for VAT and handling payment.

It would be a bit late once you’ve got your GT , guess what they can do with that request :smiling_imp:

11.02.2018 03:37:50
1 day Item despatched to Transshipment hub
SHENZHEN cPacket Express

11.02.2018 03:42:14
1 day Received shipment
Shenzhen cPacket Express

11.02.2018 03:43:14
1 day Processed at origin hub
Shenzhen cPacket Express

13.02.2018 07:23:15
3 day On Vehicle to Transshipment Hub
Shenzhen cPacket Express

15.02.2018 02:45:10
5 day Electronic information submitted by shipper
RICHMOND cPacket Express

15.02.2018 19:50:00
5 day Uplifted from Transshipment Hub
HONG KONG

Not sure what that last one means (Uplifted from Transshipment Hub)… but I am happy to see that its on its way to me! :smiley: Thanks to everyone involved in any and ever way with this project, your hard work and dedication is greatly and truly appreciated!

Mine was delivered by Royal Mail tracked 48 hour service & came from a London address.
It looks to me like Lumintop shipped the light to London & then someone in London shipped it to me via Royal Mail.
Who was yours delivered by ?

Just a question are there more shipments like this ?

2018-02-07 08:16 The Item is at the shippers warehouse