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ChinaBuye Reviews Summary

ChinaBuye has a rating of 2.1 stars from 77 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with ChinaBuye most frequently mention customer service and next order. ChinaBuye ranks 275th among Gadgets sites.

service
9
value
11
shipping
11
returns
7
quality
10

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Greece
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If i made 10 orders the 9 was with problem...
Not a good site. Had many problems. Everytime the told u to calm down and have a 5% discount at your next order.
The possibility to send my orders like i want?
I AM GONNA TRY TO STAY AWAYYYYYY...

Date of experience: May 15, 2013
Guadeloupe
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hi i'm from the caribbean island
I order stuff from this site OCTOBER 2012 i received my order APRIL 2013
It toke me 6 MONTHS to receive my order from CHINABUYE
NOT HAPPY AT ALL!

Date of experience: May 2, 2013
Croatia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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It's scam site
April 11, 2013

It's scam site. Supplied defective and untested products. When you make a complaint to the product then the game of attrition starts. First they want the image or video of products. Then offer such a new product with half the price, then offer this new product to the third of the price, etc.

It is a very sophisticated scam. If you agree to pay extra for the same product or cancel all, in both cases Chinabuye won and you do not have a product that works or money.

In my case it was a mini wireless keyboard $ 22.19 and on the end I gave up of all.

Please, do not waste your money, time and nerves on that site.

Date of experience: April 11, 2013
Sri Lanka
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good site
March 9, 2013

Good site. It have many items for cool price + free shipping

Date of experience: March 8, 2013
Australia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I ordered the AK09 + Tri Band Touch Screen Watch Phone. This product is not as described. Described functions can not be performed because they are not in the product menu. Customer Support tells $#*!. (Sorry)
My negative comments are not added to the product feedback.

Date of experience: January 14, 2013
Canada
12 reviews
53 helpful votes
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Bought a 56$ tablet and it worked for just over 1 month (the warranty on the site is 1 month for everything). They refused to give me a refund. After a long process of many forum threads and a long help ticket (totalling 10-15 responses), I then made a long descriptive post in the forums called Bad Experience (it was a second post, the first post was before I got into contact with ChinaBuye).

They deleted my newest post which outlined how they refused to make any exception due to the horrible product and the fact that I'm a new customer and this would shatter any trust I'd have with them. They also banned my forum account so that I couldn't respond to anyone else who ran into similar problems.

I've also noticed that they do not post bad reviews, I made a review for the tablet and how it barely survived 4 weeks. It was under my account (and still is) but doesn't show up among the reviews for the product itself (when a person is considering a purchase).

Date of experience: December 17, 2012
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I ordered $180 worth of goods on 9th September, paid for DHL. By the 27th they finally sent out my package - or so I thought. When I recieved it, only half of my package was in there, with the other half coming via HK Post because they "miscalculated" postage. Its now the 10th of December and the package hasn't even reached my country, nobody knows where it is. Paypal wont even let me open a dispute because its been more than 45 days since i've paid. I contacted HK post & they told me the sender refused to co-operate so they couldnt open an enquiry as to where the item is.

I continually ask for a refund or for them to send my items again - any decent business would be MORE than happy to OFFER a refund or replacement. EVERYDAY I email this company and they NEVER have any answers other than "wait 1 more week" They offered me a 2% discount on my next order and said if I pay $55US they will post my items again. I have stated time and time again all I want is a refund to cover my unrecieved goods ($102) so I dont have to deal with them again and they REFUSE to provide me with a refund - instead keep offering me $20 gifts from their reward page.

This company is THE WORST. I suggest NOBODY bother with them, their customer service is terrible, over 2 months + 100 messages later and they still fail to provide me with basic customer service - THEY sent my items via HK Post when I PAID FOR DHL WITH INSURANCE, THEY should be reimbursing me for the loss of my product - or at the very least - sending it out via DHL since it's what I paid for.

Date of experience: December 10, 2012
Philippines
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am new to chinabuye.com. Last November 23,2012, I ordered 2 ainol novo legend tablets and chose ems for shipping. I received my orders 12 days later. The products arrived with no defects. As of now, I am again placing orders for tablets and others. I am from the Philippines and I really appreciate chinabuye.com's service. I am looking forward for my second shipment this December as they will be gifts for Christmas. Thank you for helping small resellers like us.
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Date of experience: December 7, 2012
Canada
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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It did delivered the cell phone to me but was a used with more than ten Chinese numbers in and two batteries, each battery worked for less than 5 months, also there is no US map for the GPS. It can not be worse than this experience.

Date of experience: November 3, 2012
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I like ChinaBuye, where I ordered my flashlight stuffs in bulk. They did dropshipped without much delay and with free ship cost. Good and reliable service. Rates are quite cheaper and worth in quality. I like the different creative gadgets i love to buy for my son. Cool site!

Date of experience: October 25, 2012
RU
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This web store cannot be trusted.

My first order with Chinabuye.com was more or less ok, it arrived within a month. 3 months later, I placed the 2nd order with them. This one never arrived. The tracking number only shows it was accepted for mailing at some postal office in China, but nothing more. I cannot even be sure the tracking number they gave me was really for my order.

All attempts to contact Chinabuye customer service were complete waste of time. First, they replied with general polite talk asking me to wait a little more, again and again. After two weeks of senseless correspondence they stopped responding. Clearly, their goal was to sit through 45 days allowed for PayPal dispute to be opened. They took my money and did not care much about anything else.

Do not trust Chinabuye.com. Do not trust their faked self-promoting reviews. Do not trust their customer service promises when they reply to you. Open PayPal dispute with them no later than in 30 days. Never order moderately expensive items from them. And better stay away from them at all.

Date of experience: October 8, 2012
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Myself, my sister, and my son all three placed our first orders with this company within a day or so of one another. All of us received those orders in a timely manner, (less than a month after placing the order), and were very happy with our merchandise. Because of this, we all three placed second orders.

Approximately a month after our first orders, we all three separately placed our second orders. 25 days after placing my 2nd order, it was still stuck in "processing" status and Chinabuye could not, or would not provide me with a tracking number despite the fact that they claimed, repeatedly, that it had been shipped. I had to go through PayPal to receive a refund for that order. I am, perhaps foolishly, allowing Chinabuye one more chance to keep me as a customer and placed another order with them on 9/23/2012. We shall see how they handle that order.

My sister has not yet received her second order despite the fact that the shipment supposedly arrived in the USA on 09/04/2012 and my son has not yet received his second order despite the fact that Chinabuye claims it arrived in the USA on 08/28/2012. Please note that the shipments are supposed to be routed through California and we all live in Texas - a distance we could DRIVE in 2 days time. Both my sister and my son have now opened PayPal disputes on their second orders.

To be quite honest, I am not quite sure what to think of this company. A little voice in the back of my head tells me that Chinabuye intentionally"does good" with that first test order in hopes that you will return and order something more expensive so that they can then string you along long enough to make it too late to file a claim with PayPal for unshipped and never received merchandise. I do know that I will never, EVER again recommend them to anyone for anything.

Date of experience: September 26, 2012
Brazil
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I made 3 orders of mobiles about 3 weeks ago, and then i claimed in their forum that my orders weren't still shipped, and what did they do? They simply banned of the forum, here is the proof. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/822/bannedua.jpg/
I just applied 3 paypal claims, I STRONG WARN ALL OF YOU PEOPLE.
THEY ARE A SCAM SITE, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM!

Date of experience: September 8, 2012
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Received a wristwatch which was scratched. Notified customer service with attached photos requesting replacement or refund. Response was next order I placed of $30 would receive $5 off. Never again.

Date of experience: August 15, 2012
Bulgaria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hello everybody, i am from bulgaria. I discovered chinabuye.com soon, but i have allredy made 8 orders, and everything is working verry nice, so far. I had only one problem with one gsm phone but we resolve that problem verry quikqly. All my orders came in time, and so i can tell you thank yuo chinabuye.

Date of experience: June 6, 2012
Sweden
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have done orders for some E-liquid and other e-cig accesories... handling and shipping has been smooth, but when virginia and herb liquid arrived it was not correct product! Virginia was pure menthol taste and herb was vanila taste(even the label on the bottle was vanilla)
Have been in touch with coustumer service and they inform me it is correct: virgina is menthol and herb is vanilla...
Conclution is they do have incorrect info on the website about, at least, these products... Beware! I will never ever buy from them again, because I have no idea what they might send me!

Date of experience: April 12, 2012
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought a couple of items from them, one item was not available but they promptly replied and offer various options. The items i recieved were the correct ones and of expected quality, delivery time was only delayed because of my delayed E-mail responses. My overall impression was good and i will return to purchase more.

Date of experience: March 27, 2012
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Here is the deal
February 21, 2012

Here is the deal. The site is great on prices and their products are pretty nice as well. The disadvantage to buying from them is their level of service. So, as long as you order something, get it, and everything is as you ordered, Great! But I ordered a Touch screen windows smartphone and I needed English but the phone I got was in Russian. So after a couple of weeks trying to get them to send me the software to fix it, I had to pay for shipping to send it back to them. It took four weeks for them to get it, and another two weeks for them to "test" it. I purchased the phone on Dec 4th as a Christmas present. It is not Feb 21st and I still do not have this "Christmas Present". They hardly speak English so do not try to call them, they will just hang up on you because they can't understand what your saying. You have to email them, and since Dec 21 I have sent them 91 emails back and forth on the situation, which still isn't fixed. They have the WORST customer service I have ever seen in my life. LITERALLY! So if you do order something from them. Read every detail. Make sure it is the correct language and read all specifications to ensure you do not have to return or exchange your product and you should be fine!

Date of experience: February 21, 2012
Switzerland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very bad!
January 20, 2012

Very bad!
I have never received my alreday payed order and had to argue over 3 month (!) for a re-send or a repayment.
Customer support does not deserve the name, they not even try to help you. Very lousy.
Ps: many faked 5* reviews here..

Date of experience: January 20, 2012
Hong Kong
529 reviews
1296 helpful votes
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Note that this sites has many shills here! After every bad report you get a few fake new IDs that post 5-star comments. They are all fake.

Note that the site uses a fake (= not linked) 'Paypal Verified' logo. That is a clear indication that they are not the most honest.

Date of experience: January 10, 2012

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