Yeah, it’s a shame how Sofirn decided to handle this group buy. I followed the rules, was one of the first 500 for my first light and I ordered it. I’m patiently waiting for the second round (and hoping for more color options) but with the group buy limited to 3000 and all the people gaming the system I’m not counting on getting my second light at the reduced price.
The BLF team deserves major kudos for this effort, and I’m glad Sofirn worked out as a partner to manufacture the light but I hope we learn from this and strongly discourage manufacturers to take over the group buy after this.
Wow, it’s worse than I thought, people are actually stealing others positions! That’s low!
It amazes me how GBs always go wrong at some point, this one was so well planned and it still goes to crap. I feel so sorry for the team that put so much in for this to be messed up beyond their control.
Now everybody take a breath. The whole group buy has not gone wrong yet, just because one or more people behaved like something rhyming with pass + coals.
I got my code but I will be waiting for the second batch. Any idea about 2nd batch? I mean when it will be started to produced? (estimate)
I hope that it isn’t risky to wait for it. I just want a more perfect light because I am a student and my budget on flashlights are very limited.
Second Question: Can we use cashback for purchases made on Aliexpress (note that after price adjustment) ? Or it doesn’t allow cashback when price adjustment happens? Anyone knows?
I believe someone mentioned earlier that this is Sofirn’s biggest group buy to date.
No-one’s ever perfect when they’re doing something big for the first time. I trust that Sofirn will iron out the glitches, boot out the fraudsters and make sure everyone on the interest list gets their lanterns in the end. Once that’s done, Sofirn will have a lot of good experience to use in future group buys.
I’m hoping for a long-term relationship between Sofirn and BLF, ready for whatever the next BLF project turns out to be. This is all part of getting there.
Of cause. You have to connect some solder points at the battery-side of the driver.
There are 3 AMC7135 connected per channel as default and you can connect 4 more for a total of 7.
Whilst waiting for my own PMs (first slot at #876), I’ve been trying to work out how far the PM process has got from what people are reporting here. It helps me hang onto my patience
If Sofirn is only making 3000 and they are the ones who set this up and are not confirming that the buyers are actually who they say they are AND not limiting them to one per request then I think they should make as many as they need to in order to cover everyone who played by the rules.
I will be interested in hearing if Sofirn will still cover everyone on here who has played by the rules and more so those who participated in the thread donating valuable time to make the LT1 what it is.
And YES, what Alex did was what I was referring to earlier when I didn’t repeat the fact that <<< edited >>>> and scam it.
Now this will be a giant cluster for Sofirn for allowing these loopholes when SIG had it under control.
I hope Sofirn will close this loophole asap AND make as many units as it takes to cover the legit 3000 on here since << edited >>> some slipped through…
After reading what Alex did, (use another BLF member’s name to cheat the group-buy & order two LT1s with the group-buy price) then be sly to wait until his lanterns shipped before posting what he did here I forwarded a message to Barry asking him to immediately stop the group-buy until they fix the loophole issue, I also forwarded the Posts by Alex to sb56637.
I knew this would happen. I would have been less concerned IF legit GB members were just jumping line and pushing others back, but knowing that any number of the 7.7 billion people on earth with $50 in their hand could order meant that those toward the last half of the group buy would not get one at all!
