[PART 2] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Closed, but Public sales open!

Glad to hear you got your light. Things are really speeding up now that Neal is back 100%.

Texas_Ace,
What sort of computer do you and your Mom have?

You got the DHL box through registered mail to the UK. Not every country will have that. Most registered mail will be the 2 small packages due to size and weight restrictions.

I hope they can use a little more insulation inside those boxes plus a plastic wrapper. Once those boxes get wet, they loose all their impact absorption.

They are both systems I built 10 years ago. The backstory is kinda fun so bear with me. That year I ran across what at the time I thought was a good deal I could make a few bucks on, turned out that I ended up getting computers for my whole family out of it.

I got a big box full of a few hundred digital camera cradles, I figure they would be worth maybe $5 each so I picked up the box for $200

Turned out they were worth $35 each, and after I found a good deal on power supplies and USB cables to go with them they were selling almost as fast as I could list them at $50 each.

All said and done I made $10k off that deal, I am still pretty happy with that lol. At the time me and my siblings were heavy gamers so I built computers for my whole family for that Christmas. Most of them are still is use today, they were pretty nice for the time.

Far as the specs goes, mine is an Asus P5Q motherboard with Q9550 overclocked to 3.8ghz for most of it’s life, I toned it down to 3.6ghz when it was obvious I would be using it for awhile longer. recently upgraded to 8gb ram and the basics for the time along with a GTX 280. Only issues I have had was the power supply going out a few years back. That always seems to be the weak link.

Biggest thing I miss is lack of USB 3, never have had a USB 3 port. M.2 drive would be nice as well. I also need more ram for the virtual machines I use, I can only run one at a time right now.

My moms is an E6600 or E7300, forgot which, also overclocked to around 3ghz, I kept it mild on hers to keep reliability high. 4gb of ram IIRC. It just can’t handle the 50+ documents and programs she can have open for her work (Think secretary work x10) but the worst part is that it will randomly not save data and it is driving me nuts.

She will save it, it will say it saved but after you close the program and check the file it never saved and all the work is lost. I think the hard drive is going out is the only thing I can come up with but there are no other signs of that.

I had registered shipping .
Tracking showed pre-regirtered from 7th February.
19th March the box was registred.
21 March on my hands!!

Incredible flashlight. As more than one member said, photos does make no justice of the giant.

I could not open the head yet (need to buy some tools) but could enyone measure the exact dimensions of the reflector?

thanks

Yes we know what’s gone on , non of us are to pleased about it , what’s done is done ,leave it in the past & focus on positive things, as long as we all get our gt’s eventually thats the main thing.

The truth is always good enough.

But why even bring it into the discussion again, at this point.
You are accomplishing nothing at all…. not one thing.
All you are doing is preaching to the choir & stirring the pot.

That is just my opinion… IF I am wrong, my apologies.

IF I am right… no big deal. Just let it go.

No, what I meant is why do you keep trying to make it out that the reflector issues are somehow fake?

No argument that the selling outside the GB is wrong, never have said otherwise.

But the constant comments that they are making up the reflector issues are not helping anyone. It simply does not make sense.

Please, explain how it would benefit them to delay finishing the GB and thus delay how long until they can go public with the sale? (selling a few via back channels is not even remotely the same).

Without a logical argument to backup your opinion, it is just stiring up trouble for nothing.

They would make SO much more money had they been able to finish shipping the GB in December like they wanted and gone public in Jan.

There is a massive difference between them selling a few reflectors outside of the GB and them lying about the reflector shortage completely. Even your own argument is based on there being a shortage.

Your posts like to word it that they are lying, which that are not.

We all know they have sold some outside the GB. That was never in debate.

I guess the people that are in the 3rd batch GB is not going to receive PM anytime soon. Its almost the end of March.

Well, we could rush the PM’s and risk making some of the same mistakes as last time or we can spend the time needed to fix the issues from last time, learn from them and then hopefully not repeat them next time.

I vote for the latter option.

Plus since we are still limited by the reflector production rate it would not really speed up the actual shipping times anyways.

Luckily thread is not locked again.
Most materials of GT are big size, so its material shortage problems are real to me. Any supplier can’t deliver the part on time and with good quality, it would/will cause delay. Very simple.

Agreed. Hopefully, everything will be settled down soon.

He replied less than an hour ago
He says he will let them send next week

:laughing:

That is true I know Lumintop did sell a lot to a person in South Africa. He selling it now for $700 plus with batteries included. Convert back to rand will give you around R8900.

Don’t you mean he’s trying to sell it for $700? It seems very unlikely anyone would actually buy it for that price.

I guess it’s a compliment that the quality of the light is high enough that someone might think it’s worth that much money.

Is there a really bad currency exchange rate there? Is $700 there really like $300 in the USA? I have no idea when it comes to South Africa.

700 Rand is about 60 Dollars

“selling it now for 700USD”
The “USD” parts means US dollars.

Color me dumb, but I assumed they have their own currency. Do they use USD there?

Has someone already done the conversion? Assuming they use Rand, Maybe he’s asking 8,166 Rand for a GT?

I dont really care, I’m just passing time. :stuck_out_tongue: