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gearbest 1 star review on 11th January 2023
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
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 3 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 3 years ago
Scam scam scam stay well away bought a scooter they don’t want to do nothing
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Posted 3 years ago
Gearbest - highly recommended. I've used gear best on a number of occasions (smart lightbulbs, headphones, exterior lights). Descriptions are always accurate, delivery times are stated clearly (never that quick, but its fine as the prices are low). Would definitely recommend.
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Posted 3 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 3 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 3 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 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 3 years ago
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
Issue of Gwallet appears to have been resolved and wish to thank Gearbest.
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Posted 3 years ago
The Gearbest GWallet: I cannot gain access to the GWallet or create a password. Gearbest are completly unhelpful apart from providing instructions that don't work for me. They give the impression that they wish to set a precedent by being helpful which is a pity because I find them good people to deal with.
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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
I originally posted a review about a week+ ago out of frustration of having very poor customer service. Since then I have had various communications with Gearbest which have left me with a more positive experience. I eventually received a full refund for the incorrect item and Gearbest told me to keep the incorrect item they sent to me which I told them I am donating to a local community services agency.
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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
gearbest is rated 2.4 based on 301 reviews