They ran out of the AR glass lenses, they have not been able to ship any lights due to this. They are supposed to get 1000 lenses late next week. So shipments should start again after that.
For the record, lumintop has been very clear that they will be completing the GB, even though they would make a lot more money selling the light publicly.
I had a long conversation with several people about the profit / loss on the GB so far and I am now quite sure I am getting the truth.
They have actually lost money at this point on the GB, a fair amount actually. And if all goes well by the time the GB is over the best they are hoping for is to just break even.
The costs on everything have been much higher then they expected. They never guessed how much more a large light like this would cost.
So the reason they have been selling some publicly is to try to make a profit on the GT before the competing lights that are being made go to market.
Now like I said before, I can understand why they are doing this, I also want them to turn a profit on the light. If they loose money that is not good for anyone. I do not approve in any way how they were doing it though, the underhanded messages have to stop.
We are discussing options moving forward and I will update ya’ll as I know more but rest assured that lumintop has every intention of completing this GB.
To be clear, officially the GB just guaranteed a cheaper price, when we started this it was not guaranteed first access. It was just assumed.
Which brings up another point, the retail price will be $325 after the GB with coupons possibly bringing it down to around $250 is what I am hearing. So that makes the $157 for the remaining GB buyers an even better deal.
I almost wished they would skip out on the rest of the GB, this entire ordeal has been a drain on my life for the last 6 months, I am so ready for it to be over. Not to worry, I am not going to leave but it sure is tempting sometimes.
TA - I admire your perseverance and patience with this thread, issues and the whole GB. I would have quit at least 100 times if I were in your position.
Hey TA, why can’t you tell Lumintop that they can go ahead and sell the GT for full profit and give the rest of those waiting on the list a code/coupon so they can get the thing for $157?
I live in Kuching and i never knew we had “BRUSSELS EUROPEAN MAIL CENTRE” in here… it surprised my actually why many GTs were sent to Kuching then transit to Euro…
That means you hace your GT? I I can assure the GT sent registered to Spain in the same day have arrived in 3 weeks for one and 6-7 weeks for other and definitely the Team,Neal or LT cannot do nothing to change that - at least we happy not having to pay other issues that would mean for some cases easily more then 100$ - hope everybody have more patience that usually needed, so everyone from the GB could get their piece ,i can tell you all,just like so3 many others,the waiting is worth it and even if things seem to not go to fast,there is somebody behind that is trying to do the best
It won’t work, people will leak the code end up many in the list not able to purchase. Unless they can find an online store willing to generate 650 unique coupons and send to each individual. That’s a lot of work unless it’s automated.
To be fair, it is no different then what we are doing now. The system is working on trust right now. Although we are looking at ways to improve things.