BLF Lantern Purchase/Followup Information - Group Buy list is Closed!!!!

Can you use a PayPal debit card to buy on Amazon?

Has anyone successfully ordered from AliExpress at the GB price?

I couldn’t: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_xkprldvh

Uhhhh…

Are you aware that it’s Saturday over there already?

Wait until Sunday for them to respond. :slight_smile:

Try contacting Barry0892 by PM. He’s coordinating everything from the Sofirn side. According to him you should be able to buy from any of the 3 sites.

As long as it hss a visa or mastercatd logo, probably.

Well you couldn’t because you didn’t try?
Place the order but don’t pay for it, let them know your BLF ID, wait for them to adjust the price of your order and then pay it.

replied to the initial PM to get a different code for one with batteries - first couple of codes failed, not sure why, but last one worked fine. Ordered from Amazon.de

Process was fine - for those stressing, relax……

Am down for 2 more but been told to wait for second batch, which is fine by me. I’ll now go and re-read the design thread as I can’t actually remember what it’s going to be like :slight_smile:

Just to close the loop, Tracy from Sofirm helped me out, and I got one ordered.

Well, I got a response from the Sofirn account that sent the codes. The response:

Well, I guess that’s not very helpful, since Amazon not only doesn’t accept PayPal as a payment method, but won’t even acknowledge the term “PayPal” in their help menu at all. I seriously could find no mention of it when trying to find an answer. I responded to the PM and advised Sofirn that since Amazon helpfully sent the order through before giving me a chance to check the payment type, I might need to cancel the order and get a refund if they charge my debit card.

Is it not possible to transfer the PayPal balance to the bank account/card associated with your PayPal? I have done this in the past with no additional fees, but it has a been a while so the process may have changed.

I was sent a code for a lantern without batteries. I replied stating I would like batteries and was sent another code. I couldn’t find an option for the LT1 with batteries on Amazon.us but I did find it on Amazon.de. BUT the code didn’t work.

I found the listing on eBay and submitted an offer for £62.99 including a message with my username but the offer expired this morning without any reply from Sofirn.

Anyone else struggling?

Took them three attempts to get a working code for one with batteries to me, but got there in the end. On amazon.de, free delivery to UK. Just keep asking!

Sometimes worth trying a different browser too. And ensure that you haven’t bought another, or that one is sitting in a basket in another window, as it may then assume you have your allocation of one. And don’t have one with, one without in your basket either….

I had the exact same issue.

When making an offer on EBay on the weekend — Change the default time the offer is open from 1 day to 2 days to take into account the weekend. This way the offer won’t expire before they return to work.

Usually on weekends they don’t respond, try sending again on Monday or during the week.

My code didn’t work because of the letter ‘x’, I deleted it, wrote it again and it worked, the version sent seemed to have a multiplication symbol rather than a real letter.

Might help someone?

Beats me why they don’t make the same code work for either listing (lantern alone or in package with batts). They’d eliminate a ton of fuss and bother on both ends.

Amazon’s code generator might not work that way, though, especially if you’re using one-shot codes instead of multi-use codes.

I noticed this before and when I asked Sofirn they said that they are just copying and pasting the codes as they get them from Amazon. Either Amazon is sending weird codes (unlikely would be my guess) or it has something to do with how they are copying and pasting what they are getting.

Making an offer Friday and it was accepted saturday , worked here. Gave them my user ID here in the message section.