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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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Romania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was very happy with my Gearbest purchases, I have had no problems. Staff is friendly and willing to help, absolutely recommend.

Date of experience: February 8, 2016
Ukraine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Gaming Headphones
February 7, 2016

I want to tell about my purchase of Gaming Headphones at Gearbest. My old headphones was broken so I decided to looking for new one. My friend told me about this store and I'd wish to buy here because prices was pretty low. I made my oreder and start to wait. Delivery didn't take much time about two weeks. After recieving my headphones I can say that it's good quality product with cheap price.

Date of experience: February 7, 2016
Ukraine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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MicroSD for my Tablet
February 7, 2016

I decided to buy new MicroSD card for my tablet. When I'd looking for best price choice, at Gearbest was sale for this product and I made my order. My Card was shiped out next day and delivered to me after 14 day so it's pretty fast. The quality, capacy and speed are also very good. Next time I'll buy here something else.

Date of experience: February 7, 2016
Portugal
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I did a order on GB and they had fast shipping, took under 2 weeks! A record from china at free shipping.
My order id was WB**************.
Strongly recommended!

Date of experience: February 7, 2016
Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hi my name is Pablo and i have used gearbest a lot of times to buy many products. I'm from México and nowadays i dont have any problems, my recent buy in gearbest was W************** and it was really fast, the payment was easy and the service very good.

Date of experience: February 6, 2016
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My Review Gearbest store, once i made an order(WB**************), ordered a bluetooth headset and power bank, unfortunately i have not got my parcel lost in the post office, but the store without question gave me the money, very reliable store, can trust this store

Date of experience: February 6, 2016
Uzbekistan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My positive feedback about the purchase of the finest headphones Meizu HD50(order W**************, did order Jan 06,2016, get order feb 02,2016), other stores these headphones are 70-80 dollars, but in Gearbest i bought them all for $ 52, i had points, good delivery service, i recommend

Date of experience: February 6, 2016
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Poor communication
February 6, 2016

Unfortunately I cannot give this company a good report. I ordered a pair of bluetooth headphones and paid the expedited postage to have them in Australia in 5 to 7 days. When they had not arrived, I contacted this company and was advised that rhe items were not in stock. Now I know wexare in the 21st Century and it would take all of 30 seconds to construct and send an e mail to advise of the stock levels, but no, not a word until I, the customer make an enquiry. It has now been a further week, no contact on the progress of the order and I now see that wih Chinese New Year, further delays in processing are expected. No offer of a reduction in the extra postal charge either. As I have a scheduled payment through PayPal, I can look at delaying this I suppose, but communication = big fail.

Date of experience: February 6, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Ken,

Thank you for being kind enough to tell us about your experience.

We are sorry that you have not received your order yet. Please kindly note our shipping link: http://www.gearbest.com/about/shipping-methods.html We have followed this issue and will solve it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your important and valuable feedback.

Gearbest.com

Louisiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought my Tarantula X6 from Gearbest and couldn't believe how much they beat the competition prices. The shipping was free and it arrived faster than they said. Gearbest is definitely going to be my first option for my R/C purchases.
Order# WWP**************

Date of experience: February 5, 2016
Romania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Hidden delivery charges
February 5, 2016

Why have I received an £18.00 payment request from DHL for an order when I already agreed the shipping terms at time of ordering from you, I even paid an extra £7 shipping up front.

Date of experience: February 5, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Dominic,
Thank you for taking your time to write your review, we apologize for this situation.

Please kindly refer here for our terms about Tax & Customs Duties: http://www.gearbest.com/about/faq.html. There are no sales taxes or any hidden charges to pay on the China side when you buy at GearBest.com - However, you may need to pay some taxes on your local side when you receive the goods. We really wish you can understand.

We value your patronage and wish to continue serving you in the best way possible.

Gearbest.com.

Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No Problem
February 5, 2016

I don't have a very large experience with similar sites simply because gearbest was the first that I found and I was happy with the offer, the prices and service itself.
I am pretty much across the world from the wearhouse and the delivery times are good.
I needed to contact the customer service and the replies were fast and direct.
I definetly became a customer for a long time.

Date of experience: February 5, 2016
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I placed 2 orders with gearbest and both arrived in England in 12 days much faster than expected. One order had been damaged in transit so I contacted their customer support. They responded the same day and have despatched a replacement. I have since placed an order for other items because of the excellent service I received. Well done gearbest.
Just to update the replacement item arrived in good condition at no cost to myself and I have also received my later order. Good stuff good price good service will use them again.

Date of experience: February 5, 2016
RU
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Wodreful store.
February 5, 2016

I bought two products 07. 11. 15. The order came in excellent form. Product quality is at a high level. Delivery is not long, it took just over a month, I am very happy. And most importantly, prices in this store is much lower than in many others. I will continue to shop here :)

Date of experience: February 4, 2016
RU
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Very good store.
February 5, 2016

I've been buying in the store. I really like him. He has a very good price, large variety of goods. Responds quickly to customer support. Always helps to solve the problems.

Date of experience: February 4, 2016
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Contacted customer service multiple times to cancel the order 3 days before my order actually shipped. Each time I got some canned copy-paste reply saying to wait for my payment to process. On the third day they claimed they "shipped it" and could no longer cancel my order. I refused the package when it arrived and had it sent back to Gearbest and they offered me a $12 refund for a $83.77 order. In the middle of a PayPal dispute now... So ridiculous.

Do yourself a favor and don't get baited by the low prices and buy from another e-commerce site.

FYI: It seems like they filter the reviews on their site as there is not 1 negative review on any product. Also it seems like they go to sites like these and generate a bunch of bogus reviews to get their ratings up. You can tell when the reviews are fake when they feature the same crap english used to answer their support tickets.

Date of experience: February 4, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Ken,

Thank you for valuable feedback.

First of all, we would like to extend our sincere apologies for this situation.
Your ticket has been resolved and our Customer Service Manager has replied to you personally. Please kindly reply to us.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon

Best Regards
Gearbest.com

Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I stand corrected from my review that I wrote last night. I got home today and I received my merchandise. It still seemed to take a little longer than most websites to ship and there is no accurate tracking, but my product did arrive and it was in good condition. I just might do business with Gearbest again in the future as long as I'm not in a rush for the product.

Date of experience: February 3, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Jason,

We're extremely grateful for your constructive feedback.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope that we will have another opportunity to ship you one of our fine products.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.
We will also contact the customer to apologize for the delay and offer an accommodation for their troubles and inconvenience. We feel that this is the least we can do in the circumstances.

Gearbest.com

Canada
4 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Nothing but lies, back orders, fake tracking numbers and scams. This company has the worst customer service of any company I have EVER dealt with.
Read the positive "reviews". They are blatantly fake.
I am disgusted with PayPal for allowing this company to use PayPal.
Thanks for ruining a gift. I ordered it 2 months before I needed it. Pathetic.
Update - gearbest contacted me and basically offered me a bribe. They said they would give me a free "gift" if I updated my review on sitejabber. Yeah, I will update it alright. I'll update it to say what lying, unethical and dishonest scammers they are! Take your free gift and shove it. I won't lie to fellow consumers.

Look at the response from gearbest on this very site. It is just a junk generic answer. They don't want to fix the problem. It seems that they didn't even bother to read to see what the problem is. They won't give me a refund and this is their excuse - "The money has been frozen if it is in the jugement of paypal." Absolute nonsense. I sell through paypal too and I know that a seller can always give a refund. If I get a refund it will be by force and not gearbest doing the right thing.

DON'T say that a full refund was issued. More lies. A partial refund was for a DIFFERENT item and this was only because PAYPAL issued the refund NOT Gearbest. I don't want your refund. I will not revise my review. Gearbest is an awful company and I want nothing more to do with you, EVER!

Date of experience: February 3, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Ian,

Thanks for your feedback. We’re sorry you’ve had this experience.

Full refund was issued on 2016-03-15, it would be very appreciate that you can reply for confirmation of the refund. To respond to us please sign in your Gearbest account and Click " My Tickets ". Thanks

We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

Best Regards
Gearbest.com

Greece
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very good shop
February 3, 2016

After the first successful market mobile phone I made a second purchase.
Everything went very well.
I received in three weeks.( my Order No.: W**************)
I am satisfied with the Gearbest And I will buy again.
Recommended.

Date of experience: February 3, 2016
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Ordered a Christmas gift in November. Received in February after I set up a dispute charge. All the emails I sent to support were answered by a computer. You're screwed if you don't get your item. Never never again. They have a one star only because I had to choose one to complete my review!

Date of experience: February 2, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Wendy,

I want to start by extending our thanks to you for providing your extremely valuable feedback to us.

From time to time with thousands of shipments there will be an occasional issue with shipping. Our procedure is designed to handle situations like this one quickly and efficiently.
Could you please tell us your order number so that we can offer a better solution?

We want to say thank you for providing us with important information about your situation.

Gearbest.com

Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Every positive review of this site is written exactly like an infomercial declaring gearbest to be the very best. They should be removed because they are obviously fake. SiteJabber should take steps to remove these obviously fake reports written in broken english by someone getting paid minimum wage somewhere to write them.

The site's prices are too low to possibly send this stuff at the prices they are offering and turn a profit.

Date of experience: February 2, 2016
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Mark,

Thank you for your valuable feedback. We always look forward to hearing from our valued customers.

Let me start by apologizing personally for your experience. We really want to work with you to make this right.

We are NOT a con. We really do not need to risk our reputation over a single order. Nevertheless, we respect your opinion. It will be nice if you can respect the opinions of other reviewers too because it is not fair to accuse other honest reviewers of being liars.

Again, we apologize for your shopping experience which was clearly not up not up to your expectations. We will work harder to minimize the possibility of a recurrence.

We would be grateful if you could please continue your communication with us in your support ticket(s), so that we can work together to reach an acceptable solution. We are committed to assisting every customer at any time. Many thanks.

Gearbest.com

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