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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Fraudsters . Do not buy from them . Long wait time and junk sent if you ever get it . Stay away
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Posted 4 years ago
Readers can assess the challenges of dealing with this Internet seller, the rating should be no stars. In the last 12 months multiple items ordered and paid for were never received. Even when you paid for S&H to increase the possibility of receipt - no luck. Vendor provided Tracking Numbers cannot be traced back to any known shipping company. GB tells you to contact the seller for assistance and relief. The marketplace vendor tells you to contact GB and submit a Ticket for refund. The useless customer service function replies to the Ticket talking about extended shipping cycles, paid for delivery 15-30 days, 90 days later still lost in the Universe. The exchanges with customer service just loops without resolution. Paypal is also impotent in resolving the paid for but not received issue - referring you back to GB for a refund. The issue is the lack of integrity in GB business operations through marketplace vendors. My orders involved items that were early sales at a good price for example iHealth non contact thermometer sold at $23.99 that is now being sold by the same vendor Lii 3C Store for $49.99. The price went up since August and they decided to take my money and sell the same item to another for double the price. Take your business elsewhere the same products can be found through others Chinese sites as well as the big "A" who has off shore marketplace sellers with a reliable business model. BBB rating "F" Gearbest.com • Failure to respond to 60 complaint(s) filed against business • Business has failed to resolve underlying cause(s) of a pattern of complaints • 126 complaint(s) filed against business • Length of time business has taken to respond to complaint(s) • • CURRENT ALERTS FOR THIS BUSINESS • Pattern of Complaint: • BBB files indicate a pattern of complaints concerning customer service, shipping and billing practices of Gearbest.com. Consumers are telling BBB that the business is not delivering items within the promised delivery date. Many consumers that purchased merchandise from Gearbest.com say that they still have not received the ordered merchandise after several weeks have passed. Some consumers that do receive their orders tell BBB that items received are defective. Many consumers claim that they offered store credit instead of the refund they are seeking after their items are not received. Numerous consumers report a lot of difficulty in getting a response the company’s customer service department, despite multiple attempts to each them by telephone or email. Several consumers that do interact with the company’s customer service team are allegedly told that their products have been shipped and they are provided with a tracking number. Those consumers claim that the tracking numbers received from Gearbest.com are not valid and cannot be traced by the shipping carrier (FedEx, USPS).
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Posted 4 years ago
Readers can assess the challenges of dealing with this Internet seller, the rating should be no stars. In the last 12 months multiple items ordered and paid for were never received. Even when you paid for S&H to increase the possibility of receipt - no luck. Vendor provided Tracking Numbers cannot be traced back to any known shipping company. GB tells you to contact the seller for assistance and relief. The marketplace vendor tells you to contact GB and submit a Ticket for refund. The useless customer service function replies to the Ticket talking about extended shipping cycles, paid for delivery 15-30 days, 90 days later still lost in the Universe. The exchanges with customer service just loops without resolution. Paypal is also impotent in resolving the paid for but not received issue - referring you back to GB for a refund. The issue is the lack of integrity in GB business operations through marketplace vendors. My orders involved items that were early sales at a good price for example iHealth non contact thermometer sold at $23.99 that is now being sold by the same vendor Lii 3C Store for $49.99. The price went up since August and they decided to take my money and sell the same item to another for double the price. BBB rating is a "F" with a customer alert! • CURRENT ALERTS FOR THIS BUSINESS • Pattern of Complaint: • BBB files indicate a pattern of complaints concerning customer service, shipping and billing practices of Gearbest.com. Consumers are telling BBB that the business is not delivering items within the promised delivery date. Many consumers that purchased merchandise from Gearbest.com say that they still have not received the ordered merchandise after several weeks have passed. Some consumers that do receive their orders tell BBB that items received are defective. Many consumers claim that they offered store credit instead of the refund they are seeking after their items are not received. Numerous consumers report a lot of difficulty in getting a response the company’s customer service department, despite multiple attempts to each them by telephone or email. Several consumers that do interact with the company’s customer service team are allegedly told that their products have been shipped and they are provided with a tracking number. Those consumers claim that the tracking numbers received from Gearbest.com are not valid and cannot be traced by the shipping carrier (FedEx, USPS). https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/staten-island/profile/online-retailer/gearbestcom-0121-154606
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Posted 4 years ago
WaIting for long . Item that was supposed to be cleaned and inspected was dead on arrival after 2 months of wait time . Very disappointed. Do not buy from this fraudulent company
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Posted 4 years ago
This is joke . Things if they arrive do not work
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Posted 4 years ago
Fraudsters, did not send the item 2 months after payment, after all they offer me a refund on some of their wallet website even though I paid from the card, run away from these fraudsters
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Posted 4 years ago
Do not recommend!!!! Worst experience ever! I bought a smartphone using Gearbest and from the beginning that it was a nightmare. First, the phone took over 3 months to be delivered, without any tracking number that was valid for me use and not even the Gearbest support could track the item. After months of talking to the support team, always asking for patience, more and more waiting time, the phone finally arrived. After 3 months in use, the screen and battery stop working and the phone becomes completely inoperable. New ticket and contact with support and another extremely unpleasant experience. After more than a month of trying to resolve the situation, since the phone is within its year of warranty, I obviously requested a refund request given that the technical/support team states that the phone can not be repaired or replaced by a new one. Here began the excuses and the cheeky swindle of this company. First, I am within my right to request a refund, which was immediately refused with no reasoning. Secondly, the phone is available for purchase on the website and there is no reason not to send me an exact new one. Third, the only solution Gearbest has found is a refund of not even 1/3 of the value of the cell phone and only in US dollars, having paid in Euros. The worst experience of my life in so many purchases I have made online. The biggest scam I've ever seen. I advise no one to buy anything through Gearbest. I hope I can help people who are still considering buying with them. Save your wallet and mental health, don't do it!
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Posted 4 years ago
I ordered face masks back in May and never received them. For the past 5 months I have had an ongoing online conversation with their support center. They give me the same information over and over. Wait or do the same things over and over with no results. My requests for a refund are n=met with wait, we are contacting the seller. Its been 5 months. Do not use this company. They do stand behind what they sell and they will not help you resolve problems. They also won't give you any information to call or write to higher ups in the company. Just the same robotic replies from customer service
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Posted 4 years ago
I ordered face masks back in May and never received them. For the past 5 months I have had an ongoing online conversation with their support center. They give me the same information over and over. Wait or do the same things over and over with no results. My requests for a refund are n=met with wait, we are contacting the seller. Its been 5 months. Do not use this company. They do stand behind what they sell and they will not help you resolve problems. They also won't give you any information to call or write to higher ups in the company. Just the same robotic replies from customer service
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Posted 4 years ago
THE GOOD NEWS: After more than 30 days of back and forth messaging with Gearbest (GB) I finally received a refund for 30 KN-95 masks from a total of 110 actually ordered. THE BAD NEWS: GB tried to make me deal with a sub seller of theirs named NICHE. The Customer Care and that might be an oxymoron, of NICHE sent me numerous messages which were in no way relevant to my missing masks. They sent numerous requests for photos of the packaging and individual masks which I luckily had. I am convinced they were playing a delay game in hopes I would, out of frustration, give up. I finally told (GB) that they were the seller I ordered from directly and they had to take responsibility for the missing masks, not some company (NICHE) I never heard of when I placed the order. GB finally started communicating with me. Their messaging was slightly better than NICHE but they too seemed to be playing the delay game in hopes I would not meet the PayPal (PP) deadline. This became very frustrating when after NICHE and GB messaged me separately, they would send me a refund but not until I closed the case with PayPal. My only leverage with them was my PayPal Case. Due to PP timing rules I had an upcoming deadline and so I closed the CASE. Within 2 days I was notified the refund was on its way from GB via PayPal to me. Conclusion: The total refund was for around $38. The masks I did receive were of good quality. Why, you might ask, did I spend so much of my time with all of the back of over a month period over $38. I am 81 years old and retired. I am stuck in the house what with the Covid-19 thing. Lessons learned: Make sure you take comprehensive photos of received items and packaging thereof. NICHE did complete the delivery. The problem was that they were totally wrong as to the number of masks in the individual smaller packages. Seemingly easy to communicate, but they made it infinitely more difficult. MORE GOOD NEWS: The K-95 masks seem to work in regards to the horrible air quality caused be the California fires. POSSIBLE BAD NEWS: Gearbest, Niche and PP may refuse to ever deal with me again. OR IS THAT GOOD NEWS.
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Posted 4 years ago
THE GOOD NEWS: After more than 30 days of back and forth messaging with Gearbest (GB) I finally received a refund for 30 KN-95 masks from a total of 110 actually ordered. THE BAD NEWS: GB tried to make me deal with a sub seller of theirs named NICHE. The Customer Care and that might be an oxymoron, of NICHE sent me numerous messages which were in no way relevant to my missing masks. They sent numerous requests for photos of the packaging and individual masks which I luckily had. I am convinced they were playing a delay game in hopes I would, out of frustration, give up. I finally told (GB) that they were the seller I ordered from directly and they had to take responsibility for the missing masks, not some company (NICHE) I never heard of when I placed the order. GB finally started communicating with me. Their messaging was slightly better than NICHE but they too seemed to be playing the delay game in hopes I would not meet the PayPal (PP) deadline. This became very frustrating when after NICHE and GB messaged me separately, they would send me a refund but not until I closed the case with PayPal. My only leverage with them was my PayPal Case. Due to PP timing rules I had an upcoming deadline and so I closed the CASE. Within 2 days I was notified the refund was on its way from GB via PayPal to me. Conclusion: The total refund was for around $38. The masks I did receive were of good quality. Why, you might ask, did I spend so much of my time with all of the back of over a month period over $38. I am 81 years old and retired. I am stuck in the house what with the Covid-19 thing. Lessons learned: Make sure you take comprehensive photos of received items and packaging thereof. NICHE did complete the delivery. The problem was that they were totally wrong as to the number of masks in the individual smaller packages. Seemingly easy to communicate, but they made it infinitely more difficult. MORE GOOD NEWS: The K-95 masks seem to work in regards to the horrible air quality caused be the California fires. POSSIBLE BAD NEWS: Gearbest, Niche and PP may refuse to ever deal with me again. OR IS THAT GOOD NEWS.
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Posted 4 years ago
THE GOOD NEWS: After more than 30 days of back and forth messaging with Gearbest (GB) I finally received a refund for 30 KN-95 masks from a total of 110 actually ordered. THE BAD NEWS: GB tried to make me deal with a sub seller of theirs named NICHE. The Customer Care and that might be an oxymoron, of NICHE sent me numerous messages which were in no way relevant to my missing masks. They sent numerous requests for photos of the packaging and individual masks which I luckily had. I am convinced they were playing a delay game in hopes I would, out of frustration, give up. I finally told (GB) that they were the seller I ordered from directly and they had to take responsibility for the missing masks, not some company (NICHE) I never heard of when I placed the order. GB finally started communicating with me. Their messaging was slightly better than NICHE but they too seemed to be playing the delay game in hopes I would not meet the PayPal (PP) deadline. This became very frustrating when after NICHE and GB messaged me separately, they would send me a refund but not until I closed the case with PayPal. My only leverage with them was my PayPal Case. Due to PP timing rules I had an upcoming deadline and so I closed the CASE. Within 2 days I was notified the refund was on its way from GB via PayPal to me. Conclusion: The total refund was for around $38. The masks I did receive were of good quality. Why, you might ask, did I spend so much of my time with all of the back of over a month period over $38. I am 81 years old and retired. I am stuck in the house what with the Covid-19 thing. Lessons learned: Make sure you take comprehensive photos of received items and packaging thereof. NICHE did complete the delivery. The problem was that they were totally wrong as to the number of masks in the individual smaller packages. Seemingly easy to communicate, but they made it infinitely more difficult. MORE GOOD NEWS: The K-95 masks seem to work in regards to the horrible air quality caused be the California fires. POSSIBLE BAD NEWS: Gearbest, Niche and PP may refuse to ever deal with me again. OR IS THAT GOOD NEWS.
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Posted 4 years ago
Bought a cell phone which developed within 6 months screen problems. Expectation in Europe of course is replacement or repair. Gearbest tried with suggestions of maltreatment (phone heated up according to support ) to avoid warranty. I didnt accept and their offer finally was 40 US and some account points, which I declined. Do not buy at Gearbest ever.
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Posted 4 years ago
Disgusting experience in dealing with them. Bought an item, realising billed USD dollars and cancelled within 30 minutes, yet still posted the item out after 17 hours of getting the cancellation email, now having to pay big postage to return it. Seems like they know the system and play to it. Warning... True fair dinkum after sales service is lacking and they will not seek to get a fair and reasonable outcome.
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Posted 4 years ago
Avoid this website, advertise great prices but dont honour them. Used to be reputable but their trading practices now leave a lot to be desired.
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Posted 4 years ago
I ordered 6pcs tablets with high specs on the website. Those devices I received have been manipulated and show fake device information. I know what I am saying as I am an expert in Android tablets. On the Gearbest site when I ordered these devices they advertised with the following specs: Android 9.0, 1920x1080 screen resolution, 8GB RAM, 512 GB flash. When I go to device information on the device the displayed information matches BUT the device is very slow and the OS look and feel is not Android 9.0. So, I downloaded diagnostics apps and run them. It turned out the tablets have only Android 4.4, 1280x800 screen resolution, 1 GB RAM and 16GB flash. This is the parameters of a 7 years old tablet! I raised issue in GearBest resolution system but they say I have to negotiate with the seller. The seller doesn't want to accept return and neither want to refund me. GearBest "customer service" just keep saying I have to negotiate with the seller but do nothing to solve my problem. They stole 380 GBP from me.
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Posted 4 years ago
Bought a Fitbit watch from Gearbest. When it arrived it did not work. Tried to contact them through their online ticket system...it did not work..how convenient for them .Luckily they have a Facebook system so went through that with my complaint. Lo and behold the ticket system now worked. Unfortunately it must be manned by people who do not read the tickets and simply press scripted replies stating how sorry they are and how valued we are as customers. What a joke. After 17 communications I still have a bit of black metal and rubber but feel so much better with my 17 apologies and being valued sooo much. Luckily I paid through PayPal so will hopefully get my money back!! Do not use this company, unless you want to give your money away
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Posted 4 years ago
Scam scam scam stay well away bought a scooter they don’t want to do nothing
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Posted 4 years ago
I am a real customer of GearBest.com. I ordered 4 items from this site 5 months ago, so far I have received 1 item. The rest of 3 items are still missing. Contacted the site and seller many times, and I found that this site and seller are basically a cheater and scammer. They intend to cheat your money and send you nothing.
gearbest 1 star review on 18th September 2020
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Posted 4 years ago
During peak pandemic infections I ordered masks which they promised in 5 days. They kept lying about the time of delivery till the credit card company contacted them. It was a month after the purchase that I received the masks which are of bad quality from china for a very high price. I asked to return the items but they kept giving me the runaround. Finally I gave up. They are crooks. Do not purchase anything from them.
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Posted 4 years ago
gearbest is rated 2.4 based on 305 reviews