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gearbest 1 star review on 11th January 2023
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Gearbest is the deception !! Be careful buying from them! I was trying to buy from them 2 times and 2 times I was tricked! They lie about dispatch time all the time. As an example they write that they will dispatch product after purchase 2-3 days, after that they say sorry you need to wait 2 weeks more. After 2 weeks they say that you need to wait more 2 weeks. They lie about they shop stock, they selling product which they do not even have. It seems that they themselves do not know do they get the product or no. But they will sell that as much as posible !!! If you're reading, do not even think about buying from them. I commissioned a journalistic article about their dishonesty and fraud. An initial journalistic investigation has shown that hundreds of people are deceived every day. I will try to make as many people as possible see this before buying from you
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Posted 3 years ago
I ordered 6 tablets with the newest tech params advertised, cost me 378 GBP. The tablets I received were very-very slow so I downloaded hardware info apps. It turned out the devices have 6-7 years old hardware. The information it displays about the system is fake. So, practically I didn't receive what I ordered, I received old unusable devices instead. GearBest offered 60 USD refund altogether. This is a scam!
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Posted 3 years ago
I waited for my order for about 8 months with a lot of lies and losing a lot of time and money. And eventually I didn’t even get the product. I ordered an electric scooter in the beginning of December 2019. It was a Black Friday offer. The order did not come and I was wondering what was going on. I found a message. They said that my address is in remote area and so I would have to pay for shipping (it said free shipping in the order). I said that I don't want to pay, because I had another offer of similar price offer in another store with free shipping, but now that offer was already expired. I offered a few other addresses of my friends around the country but they said all of them were remote addresses too. I kept trying and trying and then became the corona virus. Since Feb/March they started saying that I should cancel the order, because they run out of stock because of the virus. At the same time they were selling the exact same electric scooters with normal shipping times on Gearbest.com. Whenever I contacted the store, they only wrote "cancel the order, we are out of stock because of corona virus" and they did not reply if I asked why they were still selling them normally. Then I contacted Gearbest.com. They said that they can't do anything, because Niubilty Store says my address is in the remote area. At least Gearbest.com seemed to admit that Niubility store was lying to me about corona virus. They had stock, they just wanted to get rid of me and me to cancel the order. They were never going to pay the shipping fee and I was just one of millions. One customer you can treat as bad as you want they seem to think. Gearbest.com did not take the responsibility to force Niubility store to pay the shipping. Instead of that they always said to me that there is nothing they can do. That is not true, because Gearbest.com is indeed responsible of the their stores to make sure they offer fair deals. My friend with a similar address ordered a product from Gearbest.com as well, but his order came free as promised, which I was surprised of. I suggested ordering my electric scooter to my friend's address, but Niubility Store said that I need to pay the shipping there as well. In general the customer service in Niubility Store was absolutely horrible. They did not answer my questions about the stock, they kept lying to me and always said "cancel the order", whatever I asked. Gearbest.com customer service was not much better and they always said there's nothing they can do. which is not true. Altogether this place has no idea how to do fair selling according to European customer service standards. If by any chance you can avoid ordering from here, do it. I wish I had chosen that other store on Black Friday to order my electric scooter from when they still had the deal. Now it is too late. If this was not enough, at first I did not get a full refund. Just a few weeks ago I got a message from Gearbest.com that the scooter is out of stock because of COVID-19. At the same time I read online that it was actually replaced with a newer model and is the old one is not available anymore anywhere. For Gearbest this seemed to be a good ”excuse” to finally cancel my order and get rid of me. If they were fair they would have sent me the newer model. At first there was an issue with my PayPal account and they returned my money on the Gearbest account as credits. I got 378 euros instead of 410.05. Finally, after complaining and messaging, I finally got back the exact 410.05€. They also gave me a few points as a compensation to spend in their store, but after all this bad service I am actually not willing to buy anything. It was worth 8 dollars or something. I asked a lot more and they would have had to send me the scooter shipped free or the newer model if they run out of stock with the older. Bad bad service. Now that I checked, my points are gone too. They disappeared in a month or so. AVOID Niublity Store by any means and beware of Gearbest.com too! I must not be the only one who was being cheated. Sincerely, Jukka Koponen Finland
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Posted 3 years ago
Life-TIme Store seller lied - no support from GearBest Store: Life-TIme Store Offered: 10.1 inch 8G + 512G WiFi Tablet Android 9.0 HD 1960 x 1080 Received: Fake Tablet with Android 4.4 display only 1280x800 Life-TIme Store as compensation returned $10. From GearBest no support towards the customer :-(
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Posted 3 years ago
This company has no interest in providing customer service or anything remotely close to reliable products. Android box I ordered failed just after their 45 day limited warrant expired. No other option for a fix was offered other than a measly $10 refund which got hit by PayPal fees due to the inept ,ethos they used to refund. You’ll be sorry if you go with GearBest.
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Posted 3 years ago
The Gearbest system says my order was delivered to my house, but when I got there, the item wasn't there. I have gone back and forth with them and the seller for months. At this point, they are not planning to refund my money or ship me the products that never arrived. Also, it took well over one month for my products to get to America and then they never arrived at my house.
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Posted 3 years ago
They sent me the incorrect item and I filled out a ticket with all the required info: photos of item, codes, shipping package and the delivery list, plus a reply explaining the situation. All I receive back are emails requesting that I fill out a ticket! This has been going on for a while. So I do not have the product I want, nor a refund, or any actual 'customer service' (if you want to call it that) response.
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Posted 3 years ago
I have spent approx. $150.00 for the KN95 mask with valve. The straps are pulling off the mask (some as soon as you put it on, others after about 2 hrs. of use.) I have very patiently been working with the "support tickets" process on the website. Gearbest directs you to the actual store (However, I bought my mask from Gearbest not Life-Time Store or Niche Alerts Store.) The store won't resolve it and now Geearbest has cleared all the history of the tickets that have been going on for 3 weeks now. They have TERRIBLE customer service and POOR PRODUCTS
gearbest 1 star review on 30th July 2020
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Posted 3 years ago
only sit is my monex 8 month long
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Posted 3 years ago
Horrible avoid waiting 6 months for a cable still no feedback or refund
gearbest 1 star review on 22nd July 2020
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Posted 3 years ago
Stay away from this website. I have been waiting for over 3 months for my order & all they tell me is be patient. Their customer service is TERRIBLE!!!! They have a million excuses but no real answers. I would rate them -5 stars
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Posted 3 years ago
They have really gone downhill. Not only does it take 2 months to normally receive most products but you better add a couple more to it. rediculous! Then you will submit a ticket to complain and they will tell you its no longer available and they will give you site credit. Then you get to do it all over again. I don't want their freaking credit I want my money back! I told them I was going to take the next step WHEN i didnt get my stuff in the next two weeks like the told me. Well miracolously I got the merchandise. Well some of it. I tried to use the credit I have and get something from the USA warehouse and forgot the stupid password for the wallet. So I hit "forgot password" and it wont except a new password. On top of everything else the site is such a royal pian in the a@@! JUST STAY AWAY!
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Posted 3 years ago
still don't have masks or refund..ordered in april. bogus claim that they were shipped from the U.S. will never purchase from this site again and will file complaints wherever possible practically impossible to find out status of shipments. just overall awful
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Posted 3 years ago
taking forever to get shipment delivered. not sure if the item ordered from gearbest will ever arrive. beware strongly
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Posted 3 years ago
Gearbest = Gearfraud. 61 days, no tracking , no tracing , no package. Is this just Gearbest = Gearfraud. No customer services, No refund... DON'T BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!!!!!!!!!
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Posted 3 years ago
Unbelievably poor customer service and the longest shipping times I have ever experienced...and getting longer since my order still has not arrived and it has been 6 weeks! When I contact them they offer no resolution even though the tracking still shows the order is in China at this time. Asked to cancel order since it has not left and the only response is "please wait 2 more weeks and then contact us an we will offer you a solution". How about you just cancel the order that has not shipped yet and refund the money that you took immediately upon my ordering?
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Posted 3 years ago
I've ordered a Xiaomi smartphone in November 2019. It was due to arrive in December but it didn't, later that month tracking information shows that package was lost. Some days later it says the same thing. I opened a ticket and gearbest was not helpful at all, always delaying actions. If you value your money and time, don't risk buying from Gearbest. I've heard similar stories to this one. Update: Eventually they admitted that package was lost and agreed to send me again. Well, that was February 2020 and by end of May 2020 no package arrived. This is when I called to DHL (the carrier for this new package) and asked information about it. It turns out that it was delivered back to the sender at the start of May and all this time Gearbest support apparently didn't know anything. It was only when I provided this information that they went on to confirm right away that it was actually the case. So, they could have known but just didn't really bother. I then asked for a second resend but was told that because the shippment method I originally chose was not available I'd have to cover the customs fee. After waiting for 7 months, I would have to wait a few more and even be charged of about 30% the value. Needless to say, I will never buy there again and neither should you.
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Posted 3 years ago
Here is my story, I put order Feb 23 2020, Shipped on March 2, estimated date Mar 23 - Apr 9, and status kept "Shipped out" till now. I opened a ticket on May 1, they gave me a deadline as June 10. And the parcel still not coming. I asked refund on June 12, they just kept saying sorry and told me they were investigating, back and forth 4 times, on June 23 they finally offer me partial refund (less than half) by blaming me not purchase shipping insurance. I did a lot of online shopping from other websites, some was really slow, but bottom line if it missing deadline I always get full refund. Also, I just felt lucky, this is my first time using GearBest, the amount is small (CAD$17), but I learned a lesson, don't trust their reviews, stay away from GearBest.
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Posted 3 years ago
The worst ever. Save you money and most importantly you TIME. I ordered 3 items. It has been 50 days and still didn’t receive anything. Customer service sucks. You can’t call them. You can only text them. And after loosing so much time. They’ll tell you to contact the sellers. And to do that is another story. It took me several attempts. And at the end I still didn’t get my order and still don’t know what’s going on after 50 days. And where’s Gearbest. It looks like they don’t give a shiiiiit.
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Posted 3 years ago
Okay I admit that I have gotten a few things okay but on a recent order I got 1 thing that was broken. They will not give your money back only a store credit. Also, I ordered a few items and one of them didn't come. I contacted support about it. It was messed up because I got a couple of the items so they deleted the order number as delivered. It turns out they ordered the item from another company. So now they want me to contact that company and to complain to them or whatever. They give me links that do not make any sense. It's just not worth it. Unlike Amazon or Ebay this company has little or no support, especially if it is from one of there "affiliates". My summary on Gearbest is that it is just not worth it. It can take forever to get an item you order. If you wait several months and don't get the item you order then you will probably get the old run around so your out of the money that you paid. Support is the worst and Gearbest just don't seem very trustworthy to me.
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Posted 3 years ago
gearbest is rated 2.4 based on 301 reviews