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Gearbest Reviews Summary

The company's reputation is significantly marred by widespread customer dissatisfaction, primarily stemming from persistent issues with order fulfillment, delays, and inadequate customer support. Many customers report difficulties in receiving refunds, with some waiting over a year without resolution. While a minority of reviews highlight positive experiences regarding product quality and timely delivery, these instances are overshadowed by the overwhelming negative feedback. Overall, the sentiment reflects a lack of reliability and transparency, leading to a recommendation for potential buyers to exercise caution when considering purchases from this company.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
3,482
value
3,458
shipping
3,490
returns
2,584
quality
3,437

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Brazil
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Atendimento e bom preço
March 5, 2017

Comprar na Gearbest é muito bom, além dos preços baixos o atendimento é muito ágil, já precisei entrar em contato com ao atendimento e fui muito bem atendido, tendo todas as minhas solicitações atendidas.

Date of experience: March 5, 2017
Italy
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have purchased many products from gearbest and since I was always good, I want to write my review unbiased and fair. The shipment was fast and excellent communication, advice gearbest for purchases of drones and other radio-controlled models.

Date of experience: March 3, 2017
Louisiana
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I purchased the Weisre Wireless Microphones at what I thought was a good price. The first set came in DOA in a few days. They promised a replacement set or an in-house credit. I went for a replacement set.

The second set took 3 weeks for them to generate a shipping label from China. After 2 more weeks and more ticket help conversations. I received the second set. The second set is broken the same way. I took the wireless mics to a friend of mine who is an electronics tech in the military. In their shop they measured the transmission frequencies of each microphone and all 4 were no where even close to the marked frequency on each one or the base unit.

I tried to get them to let me ship them back for refund or tested exchange and the reply was to refund only half of my money. MORONS!

DO NOT BUY from this company. Once they have your money you are screwed. Go search eBay or Amazon for what they have and pay a couple of bucks more from another company. These guys are rip-off pros.! Skip this company. Go someplace else!

Gearbest attempted to help this customer through the SmartCustomer Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: March 3, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Bob,
Thank you for placing an order with us.
We are sorry to hear that your product isn't working to you satisfaction.
Most of our products come with a 45 day guarantee and unless noted otherwise will have a 1 year repair warranty.
Please see here for more details: http://www.gearbest.com/about/warranty-and-return.html#item2.
Could you please provide the correct order number related to this issue for us?
We can offer suitable solutions to you if there can be correct order number provided.

Thank you,
Gearbest.com

France
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Bought a phone, was never delivered.

Support only respond with pre-written messages, and so far after 4 months and several refund request, still no news about neither my phone nor my money.

You should be ashamed, and your compagny should be closed for scam.

Date of experience: March 3, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear maxime,

We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing some issues.

We offer all our customers solutions based on our policies. If you have an issue and would like a refund, please first refer to our returns and warranty page here: http://www.gearbest.com/about/warranty-and-return.html#item2.

We have sent you a personal message regarding your issue in our ticket system. Please kindly login to your account to check this and reply to us.

We look forward to helping you,

Gearbest.com

Greece
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellent
March 3, 2017

A very good e-shop with the best prices I could find. I waited less than a month from china warehouse to Greece that I think is very quick for free shiping. I am very satisfied for the exchange. About a minor problem with one of the devices I ordered I was imidiately contacted gearbest customer service and they gave me partialy refund very quick and that satisfied me fully.

Date of experience: March 2, 2017
Slovakia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am very satisfied with gearbest as it is different from aliexpress or ebay - you can really be sure you get the product you ordered. Very happy. Will use again.

Date of experience: March 2, 2017
GB
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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This is a very simple but unfortunate set of events.

- I ordered a screen for a Xiaomi Mi 4c.
- They send the incorrect one.
- A lot of back & forth messages, sending photos & videos countless times, the Customer Service just do not caring and tooking ages to reply, even when they said they would reply after some days.
- Finally they made me an offer of 3 options:
- "GearBest money" (as if I'm gonna buy from this store ever again!)
- 10$ in my bank account (bear in mind the screen alone was 35)
- a screen replacement (if I send back the incorrect one, of course, and that would have me paying at least 20 just to send it back). And of course, if they do a mistake again - why wouldn't they? They never admitted this mistake in the first place - it's me losing even more money.

Thanks for making me lose a lot of money, GearBest. See you never again!

EDIT: After they saw the review, they decided to refund the full price of the phone (35). Wich is better than 10$, but still far away from the 105 that I spent on this. It was an improvement, but still: it was not my mistake, and I lost time and a lot of money.

Date of experience: March 1, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Hugo,

Thank you for placing an order with us.

We are sorry to hear that we sent the incorrect item. We try very hard to ensure that you receive your order in pristine condition.
Please see here for more details: http://www.gearbest.com/about/warranty-and-return.html#item2.

We have sent you a ticket detailing some solutions. Please kindly reply to us there.

Thank you,

Gearbest.com

Indiana
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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First of all no one paid me for this or even ask me to leave this review I did this on my own.
I recently ordered a projector from gearbest.com.
I then started going online in Reading different reviews and comments and was starting to get very concerned.
Then I get this tracking number all the sudden and I'm like okay cool at least it's in motion
Well to my surprise, I live in Indiana in the United States.
I got my package in 4 days... no joke... I was stunned.
I will be ordering more from them, people don't believe all of the bad, and she sees some of them are just impatient people that don't take into account sometimes things are on backorder or depending on how they decide to ship it

Date of experience: February 28, 2017
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Fail!
February 28, 2017

A good waste of our bucks! Try to avoid it as much as possible!
I've ordered a flashlight as it was advertised with "buy 1 get 2" but they sent me only one piece. Later they asked for a screenshot of the advertisement, wtf?!?!
So finally I have only one flashlight!

Date of experience: February 28, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Pereira,
Thank you for your comment.
Please note there is limit in amount of customers that can have a chance in the promotion.
For more information of our process, please check it here: http://www.gearbest.com/about/terms-and-conditions.html
We have sent a message to provide more details of this issue in your gearbest account, please kindly check and reply to us there.
Thank you.
Gearbest.com

Israel
4 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Fail
February 25, 2017

Ordered some stuff to Israel. Gave them My address in English AND Hebrew. 2 weeks later I get a message that my order was sent back from the shipping company because the address is not in English. Complete waste of time.

Part 2 of the mess:
Gearbest canceled 2 orders I made but told me only about one cancellation. Wasted more than a month waiting for the other one and only after asking them about it I was told that it was canceled.

Gearbest response is a joke. The address i gave is correct and in English. I just added the street name in Hebrew. There should be no problem using this address. If Gearbest refuse to accept Hebrew letters in the address they should not confirm the order and notice me there is a problem with the address on time.
Gearbest customer service only offered me a small discount for future orders. This is insulting. After a couple of failures I will not buy anything from them again. This discount is useless

So to sum it up:
2 orders, both canceled, huge waste of time. Terrible customer experience. Stay away!

Date of experience: February 24, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Nir,
We regret that you are experiencing some issues of your order.
Please kindly note there are different requirements in address from different shipping companies.
We advise customers to provide correct address during checkout according to our terms and conditions here: http://www.gearbest.com/about/terms-and-conditions.html
We have reviewed your case and sent you a ticket regarding your issue. Please login to your account and reply to us.

We are awaiting your response.
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Peru
1 review
2 helpful votes
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WW*******320961
February 24, 2017

Gearbest is the best, i have used this website for long time, i was like you, from the start i was a litte scared that they can grab your money and disappear. But i was wrong, this is a reliable store online like Ebay. In order to feel secure with your orders, you can use paypal that is best payment method, i am telling you by experience, you will never lose, in case you dont get your items on specified time, you can open dispute against the seller, so paypal will make an investigation about it and according to the result of it, you will be refunded by paypal. I hope to have helped you to clear your doubts. Regards from PERU.

Date of experience: February 23, 2017
Italy
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Perfect
February 24, 2017

For me it's the best site where you can buy Chinese smartphones and gadgets.
All arrived in time ( I live in Italy and, If you buy with the priority mail, 0-3 euros, all the orders will arrive in more or less 7 working days)
The support is kind and helpful in all situations and, if the courier loses the pack and you have bought the 2 warranty, they will give you all your spent money.
For me is excellent.

Date of experience: February 23, 2017
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Don't go near them
February 22, 2017

Sent me a faulty piece of equipment, then demanded I pay £70 to send it back to China. Apparently it couldn't be repaired under their "free repair" warranty, and so are now demanding $200 from me to send me a new one! What a joke.

Date of experience: February 22, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Sam,
Thank you for placing an order with us.
We are sorry to hear that your product isn't working to you satisfaction.
Most of our products come with a 45 day guarantee and unless noted otherwise will have a 1 year repair warranty.
Customers must pay the shipping fees for returning the item to GearBest, while we will cover the shipping fees to send the repaired item back to the customer.
Please see here for more details: http://www.gearbest.com/about/warranty-and-return.html#item2.
We have sent you a ticket detailing some solutions. Please kindly reply to us there.
Thank you,
Gearbest.com

Turkiye
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hello,

Yesterday I bought 3 pieces of pen from GB. In my registered account I have an address but I gave another address to this shipping. ( Because I moved another city (600 km far away from my new address))

But GB sent this parcel to registered old address. I request to solve this problem because I have evidence and share with their customer service but they regret them. Please find a real solution asap.

Gearbest ticket number: T*******475"

Gearbest find a solution. Thanks

Date of experience: February 22, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Duhan,
Thank you for your review.
Please note we exactly send the order to the address that customer provided during checkout.
For more information of our process, please check it here: http://www.gearbest.com/about/faq.html
We have contacted you via the ticket and offered solutions to your issue.
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Gearbest.com

France
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I like Greabest too
February 22, 2017

Super website too, i like to order somme items every month since 3 years ans the SAV is very intelligent to understand my words for all my problems.

Date of experience: February 22, 2017
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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VERY BAD STAY AWAY
February 21, 2017

You can pay extra for shipping but still the time will take 15-30days. Then you get a nasty charge on some items from the postman. Then they smoke weed and relax when its Chinese new year and it takes them 6 weeks to ship on item you wanted 1 week ago. DO NOT TRUST GEARBEST AND THEY TRY THEIR HARDEST NOT TO GIVE REFUNDS.

Date of experience: February 21, 2017
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Elliot,
Thank you for your review.
Please note the warehouse location and stock availability can affect the processing time of the order.
Please note that each item has its warehouse option and dispatch time displayed clearly on the web page.
We have offered a tracking number for your package, please note you can track it here: https://www.yodel.co.uk/track/
We have sent you a personal message regarding your issue in our ticket system. Please kindly login to your account to check this and reply to us.
We look forward to helping you.
Gearbest.com

Italy
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I love it!
February 21, 2017

I bought the Xiaomi Yeelight RGBW E27 Smart LED Bulb.
The product is nice and exactly what I was looking for to give a light atmosphere to my room. The GEARBEST service is always good. Customer care is always ready to move any doubts and problems. The shipment work very well from China to Italy, around 20 days. The prices are always very convenient!

Date of experience: February 21, 2017
Nevada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Customer Service Sucks!
I have an appointment with the California Attorney Generals Office on Friday.
This company sucks. No customer support phone number, even though it says so ion their website.

Date of experience: February 20, 2017
Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Gearbest is the best
February 21, 2017

For me this is the best site where you can buy lot of things from china. I already made some orders and never got any problem. The last one was an tv android box and its amazing. Fast delivery, good packages, good quallity and the most important cheap!

Date of experience: February 20, 2017
Brazil
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a smartphone and I am very satisfied with the shop and the product. For me everything works well.

Date of experience: February 20, 2017

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