You seem like youâre almost looking for crap to be unhappy about.
This is basically a volunteer project for everyone except Sofirn. Youâve got a bunch of people volunteering their time and efforts to design and produce this thing and dealing with people in another country who may or may not speak the same language super proficiently who need to actually make the final product.
And the you have all of us providing pressure to get it out as quickly as possible.
And youâre somehow shocked and dismayed that thereâs been some changes or minor issues in that process?
There have been only 3 manufacturers prepared to work with BLF over the last 5 years, Manker (stopped doing that), Lumintop and Sofirn, of which only Sofirn trusted BLF enough to make almost exactly what the BLF team wanted, and that trust took more than a year to develop during the Q8 project (via Thorfire). This is now their third project, and the most risky one for them because it is a relatively expensive product and about everything was completely newly developed which is costly for a small flashlight manufacturer. I think that it worked very succesfully for BLF and hopefully for Sofirn too.
I love automation! I think there are plenty out there that donât trust a computer for some reason. I see it in my work all the time. We were migrating 100+ email accounts and the powers that be decided a manual process (Office 365 web interface, point & click for hours utilizing several staff) was safer than a powershell script with testing and logging (seconds to execute the script and utilizing 1 staff member).
Another possibility is that maybe the process for getting the codes from Amazon is not super friendly/portable. I havenât sold anything through Amazon, so Iâm not sure.
No, Iâm trying to figure out how the project got into the situation itâs currently in, specifically with regards to the inaccurate manual included with the first lights.
Factory flashlight manuals are printed in such a compressed format that they canât be read anyway. The only copy that really matters is the one you find online and can actually read.
Ordered my first one with amazon.de with batteries.
Thanks all involved to make this happen.
I think this one might eventually replace my coleman unleaded on camping trips.
3 more to come. Most will end up as gifts.
This project really shows if you get together what you can achieve. Been looking at battery lanterns for ages, and they have all been s!!t. I really think the BLF community hit gold with this one.
To all those complaining, one advice, get involved earlier in the project and offer to help. If not, shut up and be grateful for those that stood out.