Quite right.
This has nothing to do with Lumintop, who I understand have done good work with the BLF GT, and I expect will do a good job on this one.
The Cometa fiasco was the fault of Manker, and the CPF Italia project leader, in cahoots with a Banggood product manager, who mislead everyone into thinking that they would be getting a custom Jaxman Z1.
Whereas it turned out to be a badly made fake, the CPF-I man disappeared, and eventually BangGood tried to make things right, with refunds. But not before months of annoyance, anxiety, and evidence of shoddy, even dangerous, design and construction had been exposed on the forums, requiring owners to make DIY modifications and add retrofit parts to have any chance of having a safe functional torch.
There was a big falling-out between Banggood and Manker after that, and ISTR the Banggood product manager was dismissed.
The Miller and I then contacted Jaxman, and they cautiously agreed to supply a limited quantity of Z1 hosts to experienced modders to make their own versions of what the Cometa should have been, which were favourably received here.
And Jaxman continues to support experienced knowledgeable BLF modders with great hosts, by individual request.
Which was the start of The Miller’s management of group buys, building the development teams, and the full scale engineering development of the Q8, GT etc. And kicking this project off as well.
If I have miss remembered any of this history, please feel free to set the record straight.