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

Guys in EU received light with registered lately when it was sent to you?
Mike

TA, after LT, Neal are back from holidays, can you please ask them to first send out these 50 orders.

Thank you for your help.

Kind regards

Same here. :slight_smile: It should be fine. :slight_smile:

I missed the mailman today but he left a message so… I will pick up both packages tomorrow.

Just received mine (registered) in two small boxes. But I'm a little bit shocked!!

@ first I was thinking it was a big mistake, because of there small size and because they where totally whet and damaged!!

I could peel off the whet carton with my bare hands like butter and was very surprised to see the GT head totally free/loose in the whet damaged carton, without additional protection!!??

What where they thinking while packing those boxes!!?? That is totally crazy!! This is the complete opposite as in those pictures with those nice protected boxes!!

The other small package was also whet/damaged and contained only the tube with battery holders inside, wrinkled in simple plastic foam and on the bottom a totally whet manual :/

https://www.dropbox.com/s/phozbjpk2sl7vr5/IMG_20180220_112751.jpg

SamHaLeKe read my question again.

OMG… how could they do this… until now we only saw photos of nicely packaged lights??? :rage:
I hope your light survived this torture and wasn’t damaged?

Your question is simple but your English is very bad :p

"Guys in EU received light with registered lately when it was sent to you? Mike"

Also, the last few pages are all from EU people who received there 'registered' lights, so why ask?

It should be totally clear for the reader that people in the EU are receiving there 'registered' lights bit by bit...

Mine just came in in a simple carton whet box

PS: If you just read a page back, you could see I'm from Belgium (EU)

You know difference between ‘sent’ and “received” do you?
So when it was sent?
Mike

Your English is even worst than I thought. For such a simple question, please be more clear in future messages...

Advice: read a page back and look at one of my last posts, there you can find some dates when the item was sent.

Now be good :p

@Samhaleke

Ouch! That’s an ugly way to receive your parcel(s)!

Do you know if it is caused by belgium post?

Just got an update from PostNL,My packages are planned to be delivered tomorrow!

Packing a rare and expensive flashlight just like that is totally not the fault of Belgium post. That it’s being whet perhaps but it isn’t even raining over here, so could be when picking of the plane…

Even if they opened the package (witch they didn't) it should not matter. You don't ship expensive goods unprotected in just a cheap carton box, period. That’s not only crazy but very respectful to the buyer!

Those first boxes (with the drop test video) looked very good, this however looks very bad :/

Is the flashlight in one piece? Are there any damaged edges?

Ok, i thought it was the impact of the wet box, but i understand that there is no padding at all (as the DHL parcels came fully padded)
I agree, that is not the way such a light should be sent.

Did your light get any damage? or was it only the boxes?
Hopefully it works well and didn’t suffer any damage.
I dont mind some damage on the box, ad long as the light is undamaged. Hopefully they both come clean, we’ll see i will keep you posted.

On the printed label -> Date and sender signature : 2018-02-08
Tracking starts with -> Asendia Hong Kong, Mailed : 2018-02-12
Received today in my mail box (didn’t have to pick it up at the post office) : 2018-02-20

Shipped to France with Swiss post ePacket.

That's also exactly the first that came up to my mind :D After immediate inspection of the ‘head’ (I could easily grab it true the whet carton), I only noticed it was a bit whet on the outside (anodizing) and very cold. But NO scratches, NO bumps or NO broken glass whatsoever! I (or should I say THEY) was very lucky it didn’t got damaged in any way. To know that the only protection was the thin plastic peel-off foil over the glass and just sitting freely in a cheap carton box (barely bigger than the head itself) is just BARE LUCK!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/irluabkpy4zthdv/IMG_20180220_132639.jpg

So no damage thus far, although I didn't test it yet as batteries are charging …

: knock on wood :

Oh my Goodness compared to the Q8 it’s REALLY BIG
Even Jokie looks surprised
:stuck_out_tongue:

This is due to the registered mail shipping. A lot of places have strict limits on size and weight for registered mail and this must have been what was needed in order to fall under those limits. It is not ideal but the only way they could ship registered mail. DHL would have been just like everyone else with the nice padded box.

Nothing that they could do about the wetness obviously.

I've got another one to compare for you ;)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hh8rdmnyss0f6cc/IMG_20180220_141248.jpg