There was plenty of confusion to go around. Between people stating what did and didn’t work for them with no mention of what their request number was or if they had received the PM yet, and I’m guessing some price match approvals that should have been rejected, it was really hard to know who was talking about what and how to proceed. I’m / we’re not upset with anyone who thought they were following the proper process.
Promise - we’re trying to make things as clear and simple as possible for when ordering is opened up again.
- I’m still taking names and the next updates will be posted Sunday evening. It’s not really efficient for me to do this every evening (and for DBSAR to update post #1) so please be patient. Given that, anyone who posted an interest during a week should check the following week’s updates to verify that their name is indeed on the list. I’m manually scraping names from BLF so it’s certainly possible that I missed a post.
- We are at 2,904 on the interest list. Sofirn has stated that everyone <= 3000 will get the group price so don’t worry about where you are on the list. After all these years please be patient for a month or 2 more
- The first 500 LT’s are not any worse than the new ones will be. The major change is that colors will be available. There are other minor changes (firmware, some internal changes to facilitate production) that I doubt anyone would notice unless doing an in-depth comparison between LT’s from both batches. Sofirn said “1st batch and 2nd batch has the same function and quality”.
- As Lux-Perpetua said this is the biggest group buy ever in the history of BLF and Sofirn. So the problems aren’t really all that shocking and future group buys will be better for it. And don’t forget that people are doing this in their spare time and it’s not as if we can walk over to discuss or see things with Sofirn. Everything has been done with email/chat over many time and language differences.
- Sofirn is working hard to produce more lanterns and streamline the ordering process. I think they deserve a lot of credit for doing so.
I’m not sure if this has been answered already but I have 2 lights reserved within the first 500. However, I’m allowed to only order 1.so does that mean that it will be made up in the second or latter batches?
UPDATE: Oct,18,2019 -Sofirn will make sure everyone gets their LT1s at the group price regardless of the loss of a few to outside buyers at the GB due to the ordering loophole. They are planning to change the system to maker it more secure.
Good work SIGShooter. Thanks for all the help.
If the original post could be updated with how far down the code list you guys are that would quell the excited masses, I think!
Can’t wait to get my discount code!!
