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

Yeap….Sofirn decided to take over issuing of the Amazon codes. This is their right of course since they are the LT vendor but the downside is that there’s no way to know where they are in the process. Since there’s only 500 LT’s in batch 1 my guess is that there will be a pause in PM’s once they have sold them all. But that’s just my guess so take it as you will :slight_smile:

They said that they will sell 3,000 LTs for the group price so anyone currently on the list (right now up to 2,890) will eventually be able to get one at the discounted price.

My experience with Sofirn has been great. Tracy was especially helpful with my order and was prompt to assist.
Thank you.

Same. I had some glitch in being able to order, but they took care of it promptly. Now, my lantern is on its way to me! :+1:

Thanks TK, I’ve been here a while and never noticed that before!

I transfer money from Paypal to my bank account all the time, and with only two exceptions (when it took a few hours) it has always gone into my account straight away.

But one does not have to have a bank account listed with Paypal anymore. I just have one credit card listed with Paypal. That works for me as I only spend money via Paypal, have never received funds through them.

You are such a saint I guess we should be thanking you. Your best bet is to just remove your post because realistically this cant be fixed in any reasonable way (much like your morals, lol)

Savage. I figured this would happen. Hopefully you didn’t screw over the person’s name you used. I wonder if Sofirn even has the time to compare all of the orders to each other. Such as if you were to order from Aliexpress, could you double order and also use Ebay or Amazon? Or all 3? I don’t even think they would know. Well, I condemn you for doing that but appreciate you being honest about it.

Thanks for fessing up Alex^ I’m not smart enough to do that. As an FYI to anyone #596 here, paid for mine 2 days back off Amazon. Someone please give Sofirn a heads up that the codes they are sending out don’t seem to be needed. At least in Alex’s case.

They’ve let my eBay offer expire twice. I have told them my BLF ID, each time. Guess I won’t be buying a lantern.

Same here. Trying the AE method currently.

This happened to me. I assumed they checked the list and I was too far down the list to buy yet.

Could this kind of thing be the cause of these cancelled orders?

Or maybe because Alex and/or others that he mentioned literally stole your spot! :rage:

Why are people thanking Alex?

There are plenty of us smart enough to think of that. Most of us are honest enough not to do it.
Why on earth would you then publish it?
Alex could have PM’d the idea to DBSAR so he could warn Sofirn.

It is just a light. Wait your turn.

FB

:+1: FB !

I am not thanking Alex, after reading what he did, (use another BLF member’s name to cheat the group buy & order two LT1s, then be sly to wait until his lanterns shipped before posting what he did here. i withdrew my reply to him, and I forwarded a message to Barry about the issue, I also forwarded the Posts by Alex to sb56637.

Always one bad apple who ruins the entire bunch. Punishing everybody because of Alex doesn’t fix the problem. Let’s call it what it is… There are so many loopholes and ways to cheat this groupbuy it isn’t funny. It would take forever to backtrack to see who did what, and ordered what from where with who’s blf id. It’s just not feasible. Might as well just ask Sofirn to add another 500 to the groupbuy and keep it going. That way all of the original people on the list can still get one.

+1 :+1:

I think adding more lights to the group buy is a reasonable ‘fix’ for the situation.