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

I’ve never seen or received such damaged and wet parcels… that’s quite extraordinary. It seems the belgium post has some underwater carriers? Or the parcels get conveyed through sewage pipes or something? Is there a smell? :person_facepalming:

They can be damaged elsewhere also, who knows and most likely impossible to ever know it for certain.

There is no smell
(I´m basically a human with a dogs nose. …and for the next question you´re going to ask: no, I don´t sniff them) :smiley:

Just received my GT and batteries a few minutes ago (via registered mail). It was packaged similar to the others who received it the last few days but the parcels were fine and had no trace of damage or moist. Btw, I giggled like a little girl the first time I picked up the light, it is HUGE :smiley: .

Today I received the 2 carton boxes by post.
Wauw :smiley: it’s awesome after so long waiting.
I’m happy that my 2 boxes were okay not too much damaged.
The GT head looks very very nice.
The body with the batteries they are okay and also no damage.
I didn’t have to sign for it, and paid no V.A.T or whatever GREAT!!
Tonight I am gone try and see how it will shine!!!

Nice to see them all turning up for you guys, even if the packaging was a bit pants. Sadly……

Try to move on and just enjoy the GT - pondering on the negative :rage: is just going to impact on your positive :smiley: time with your new toy.
Get the batteries in, go out for a walk with the family/friends/dog and go out and enjoy what you’ve waited so long for, forget those wet boxes!

Received mine today! Packaging just as all from the latest batch, poor. But mine came in undamaged :slight_smile:

Just got one battery carrier, with 4 batteries. The second one is missing, will contact Neal.

17 years ago I worked at fed ex ground part time while in college. My first day on the sorting and truck loading line I came to a couple of well packaged parcels that were marked FRAGILE. I asked the supervisor if a different procedure was needed and he said no no those are going to the country of Fra grille and tossed them roughly into a truck. I smiled and got to work because speed was the only variable I needed to worry about. That company culture was ever present there and I have never knowingly used fedex since.

Mine arrived a couple of minutes ago! Jay!!!
And there is more good news: no fingerprints on the lens or reflector, no bad ano spots, led very nicely centered, it works and the beam is perfect and has a great color.
I love 4000K!
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Downsides?
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Uhm……yes, the packaging was so basic its a wonder it arrived without dents or scratches.
I got two seperate boxes, one containing the head and one containing the tube + batt. carriers.
The head was protected buy a plastic fil on the lens and threee pieves of thin foam between lens and cardboard box.
Around the rest of the light was only air, nothing else, nothing the keep it from moving around in the box……… :person_facepalming:
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The batt. tube was in a seperate box with only the orings and a small leaflet for protection…… :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
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On top of that: both boxes had some heavy duty staples in them, of which the bare and quiitge sharp points wwere sticking out on
the inside of the boxes…………… :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
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But, luckily it still came to me in very good condition, I guess I was lucky, but this way to send the light from China to The Netherlands
is an absolute NO GO!!! :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:
It could have reached me with dents and scratches very easily.
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OK, so now I’m going outside to play with my new toy. :+1: :+1: :+1:
Very dark night with no fog at all. :+1: :+1:
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Cheers,
Nico
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“Basic cardboad boxes with no filling”:

“Staples sticking out……”:

Drat, just missed the mailguy the end of the afternoon! (He was too early) Have to pick it up tomorrow (2 parcels)

Did you receive two battery carriers and 8 batteries?

Day two after recieving the ‘head’…

No second box with the body and batteries :frowning:

It would be very helpfull if we did get the shipping tracking numbers :rage:

Exactly the same as my package. So I am also lucky…

FINALLY !! and without a hint in advance, i received my second light made by Lumintop.
Here they are both:



Reflector is a bit ringy, but seems okay.

Pink batteries (bought earlier) are charging…

Why there isn’t a drop test video about registered 2 packages made? I know they were in a hurry before chinese new year but when they waited for reflectors earlyer they could have been do that.
Mine is in my country and I hope the best that mine doesn’t have scratches. For me a flashlight doesn’t even have scratches after 2 years of use. The GT will be most of the time on the shelf so even less chance to getting scratched.

And you wonder why you receive rude votes from time to time

I got two batt carriers and no batteries which is fine because I didn’t order batteries, just the light. :innocent:

Anyway, the light is in very good shape and the performance is excellent, I am very happy right now.

BTW I mailded Martin and got two tracking numbers of which only one worked.
I got both packages today in one delivery though so all is good for me.

Grtz
Nico

Glad you got yours too Nico :slight_smile:

My reflector has the clear machine marks too, but the led is centered and it throws a very clean spot. (from 6 meters on the wall: )

Thanks for the clear information. I am sorry I forgot the post of which you gave me the link. I am grateful.

Lumintop did the drop tests as agreed on the single boxes that were sent dhl. They originally only wanted to ship single packages through dhl. Only afterwards did they agree to ship some of the lights through various registered mail pathways only after we asked for that option. They did it as a favor to help reduce the fees associated with dhl shipping in some countries. They even attempted to set the value at what some members requested to hopefully slip by customs without incurring extra fees. I guess the answer to your question is that there were never any drop videos made of the two box shipping method because they were not asked to.