*BLF LT1 Lantern Project) (updated Nov,17,2020)

In for one please!

During the PG&E PSPS blackouts this week whole-room lighting was my weakness. Generator kept freezers cold and water hot, solar and power banks kept devices charged. Ended up using headlamps and flashlights which was inconvenient. Definitely could have used a good lantern that was safe to use inside.

im 273 & 274, didnt receive any codes. I msg Sofirn on Aliexpress, but the instructions given were vague and im not sure how to purchase as price wasnt reduced at all.

Dbsar, pls help, thanks

You’d better off contacting Sofirn’s rep, Barry0892, by PM to see if you can clarify things for you.

As i said recently in retrospect of this, there will be always be a few who will never understand that these projects are done entirely free, & on a volunteer basis, by a group of people who share common interests in the hobby and topic, and the work is done across only the internet form around the world, through here on BudgetLightForums, with time barriers, language barriers, communication barriers, and more. For anyone to expect things to be perfect is crazy, but i feel we all did a great job of getting it rolling regardless of the hiccups, glitches, and delays, at least its finally rolling into production for everyone, even after 3+ years from the start, which makes me happy no matter what. For anyone who expect perfection and correspondence like a paid team of engineers, they need to step back & evaluate what they want.

I had my patience tested today. Came back negative.

Place the order but do not pay for it, tell them your BLF username and wait for the price to be adjusted.

:smiley:

Please send me the code, I’m in for one.

I’m in for this if someone sets it up. I would like for these projects to continue on BLF and am willing to show some appreciation to help grease the wheels.

Well the good news is my offer didn’t get declined.
The bad news is it wasn’t accepted either! Lol. I was totally ignored. Just wondering whether I should make another offer of the same amount? Is that possible or do I have to offer a higher amount which would mean my total would not be correct?

Sofirn usually is quiet over weekends, i’m sure next week they will respond to you & others.

LG — Your post is a bit confusing.

You were not ignored — You most likely made an offer over the weekend and didn’t change the offer period to reflect the weekend and the offer expired. Default is 1 day for an offer — You should have changed to 2 days reflecting the weekend.

Simply make an other offer and being this will be during the week the default time of 1 day is fine.

When you make an offer - Populate the dollar box with the same discounted dollar amount.

Did you leave your username in the comments? Or did you just make an offer at the GB price? It is also the weekend so try again on Monday.

First I want to thank DBSAR and the whole team for making the BLF Lantern. I was following the projekt before there was a list, and now finally several year after if looks like it comming true !

It looks beutiful and I really like what has been done. Is this version without charging capabilities, maybe I wanted that to if its missing.

I havent benen following the projekt lately have been working and had many other things to attend to.

Anyway now I read that they have been sending emails for ordering. I have number
177, 230,231 and 232 and havent recieved any mail yet. Should I have recieved 1 or 4 mails?

Anyway great work !

Maybe the Sofirn gang is taking a three day weekend to celebrate Columbus Day on Monday. :wink:

As I understand it you should receive one PM since Sofirn wants to give as many people as possible an opportunity to get a LT. Given that the PM’s are sent out manually this may or may not end up being the case.

Thanks SIGshooter for the answer. Waiting for 1 mail then no hurry.

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I ordered 5pcs via AliExpress. I didn’t wait for a message on BLF, I just messaged Sofirn.

I have a feeling it’s not going to sell out in the order of the list.

That’s always a possibility when the ordering process is spread among 3 sites (4 if you separate amazon.com from amazon.de) and the orders are manually confirmed and priced on 2 of them.

What Sofirn should do is confirm that the people ordering on Ebay/AliExpress have been sent a PM before dropping the price. But if they are working strictly manually off a list then that would be impossible to do.

I think that many are waiting for batch 2 because they want a non-black lantern. Once the 500 batch 1 lanterns sell out hopefully there won’t be a long wait to order batch 2.

I’m surprised that they let you order 5 pieces since I thought they were going to limit 1 per order.

Oh, I always buy off Sofirn in bulk so whether there’s a GB or not they still give me the best price. I often also get GB prices long after they’ve ended.