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

Here is a comparison of my light from the same distance before and after I sanded down the black spacer. Ignore any differences in color or brightness. At 9 feet, the hot spot went from 8 inches to 6 inches in diameter. At much longer distances, it looks like the hotspot size stayed the same.

I had to measure based on the sheets of tin on the building. Both hot spots look like they are 3 sheets wide. The coronas look the same as well. Maybe the new one has a slightly better defined hot spot? That might just be the camera settings. Eh, it doesn’t look worse.

Maybe I’ll do some lux measuring later on. I might even space out the black piece to the height it was before I sanded it and compare lux measurements.

Oh I see. Thanks for letting me know. I most definitely missed this.

Was this something that they had to request? In my case I paid for registered shipping without batteries - would this mean I will receive the light with the official packaging?

Thanks again.

I think with registered shipping you will get two boxes, don’t think you have to request. DHL ships in one box.

Yep, they asked for this as a way to get around customs and taxes, against both the Teams and Lumintop wishes. But lumintop was nice enough to accommodate them anyways, not realizing just how much it would bite them down the road.

I am tempted to remove the registered mail option for the next round of lights as it has been nothing but a massive hassle and problem for everyone.

All registered mail shipments have to fit under very specific size and weight requirements, so they must ship in 2 boxes in most cases. As someone pointed out the boxes came in at .97kg and ~1.49kg respectively. You can bet that was not a coincidence.

Are all of the comments concerning poor packaging from people who used registered mail! I got mine DHL a long time ago and it was the most securely packaged light I have ever received. The outer box look very basic and “cheap”, but everything on the inside was very well thought out. No complaints here.

My registered came in a single box to me… depends on the country’s mail system as we can ship up to 50lbs threw Canada Post. I picked it not for the customs issue (although that is an added bonus some times) as I have had horrid experiences with DHL over the years. Around a 50/50 shot they actually leave the package at my front door and not somewhere else (4/7 last year @ my place). I would be totally okay with having a limited shipping option in the future to make it easier on the group buy and manufacture. Shipping issues to my location are my issue and not the manufactures… If I want something enough I will either suck it up or have it shipped somewhere that doesn’t have these problems. :+1:

For the future group buys, I suggest you do not care about who and where pays the taxes. Just ship it. We all have more than enough money to pay the customs fees. It is not pleasant for anyone, but seeing how much hassle and problems the registered shipping in two boxes caused, it is definitely not worth it.

For the future group buys, I suggest you do not care about who and where pays the taxes. Just ship it. We all have more than enough money to pay the customs fees. It is not pleasant for anyone, but seeing how much hassle and problems the registered shipping in two boxes caused, it is definitely not worth it.

Now that I have a relook over the ordering instructions on M4DM4X’s website I remember reading this and quite clearly making the decision to go for registered mail and two boxes, which in hindsight baffles me. My own fault here.

Thanks for assisting with this query.

I think the server is having quite a time handling the size of this thread! I’m getting errors all over the shop at the mo.

WOW. Unfortunate people from first batch will wait 8 more weeks (

Can’t blame ya T/A, you should, you have gone way beyond the call, I don’t know how you did it and still do it, so do it for peace of mind, jeez! :person_facepalming: :+1:

:beer: (clink) :beer:

I got an update saying the group buy was closed but never got an PM on how to pay for mine. Is the sale over or are people being added to the list over?

I just received an email as well. The group buy IS closed…but if you got your name on the list BEFORE it closed, you should get a message from them after awhile. I’m still waiting too.

I am just going to reaffirm. It is hard to beat DHL in my opinion for overseas shipping. I feel for team giggles, and lumitop. The task you’ve undertaken is monumental. Trying to please everyone, giving people what they want, then having to deal with the backlash from having given it to them.

I also think so, I did not ask for 2 boxes.

Both boxes where shipped at the same time, only one arrived at thuis moment (head).

I hope the other is not lost :weary:

When tracking this second box, there is not much information :

_Your registered letter is on the way to Belgium.

11/02/2018

04:15 Item released from customs

MYKCHA
11/02/2018

04:14 Item released from customs

MYKCHA _

This site has become almost unusable for me, and it’s become progressive worse over the past two or three days:

OK, that worked. Not going to type everything again, so I’ll just ask if I can switch to DHL. I wasn’t aware of any shipping issues before I ordered, and only chose registered as the cheaper option, since I’m not too fussed about delivery times. As johny723 said, having to pay custom fees isn’t pleasant, but it is what it is. Wu suo wei, as the Chinese say.

Please tell me that it is possible to switch, and at least avoid some of the hassle (for both myself and the team).

No, this is not the case at all. There are only ~50 orders left from the first batch, these will be shipped before we send the PM’s for the next batch.

I just mean that the next batch will most likely take about 8+ weeks from start to finish with around ~100 lights shipping per week + inevitable delays that will come up.