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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
3,481
value
3,457
shipping
3,489
returns
2,583
quality
3,436

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1 review
6 helpful votes
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Gearbest only replies here and not to my emails stay away guys my last warning I gave up on trying to get my money back they are thieves be warned...

Date of experience: June 24, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear sanjay,

Thank you so much for your important feedback.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience that we caused.

We have already replied to your ticket, please check it and reply back to us, we hope we can solve this issue together soon.

Your patronage is important to us, and we hope that you’ll continue to give us opportunities to serve you.

Best Regards
Customer Service

Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Save yourself the headache of dealing with this company. Sure, you may receive an order or 2 but keep placing orders with them and you will see they are thief's. I've placed orders and received them but this last order has been hell. I only received half the items. I've been promised refunds on 3 occasions and months later, I'm still waiting to receive it. They keep giving me the run-around. Worst business ever!

Date of experience: June 22, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Philip ,

Thank you for taking your time to write your review.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused.

Please send us an email to [email protected] with your order information, we would like to check the details for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.

Best Regards
Customer Service

Turkiye
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I did first time shopping this site and results satisfactory. Cheap price and good quality items

Date of experience: June 22, 2015
New York
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I purchased a ZTE Z9 mini from them after 3 weeks of not receiving my phone I sent a support ticket they said to verify payment they needed a copy of my license, Passport and Credit card to verify that it was me requesting the purchase? Are you kidding me, PayPal is not verification enough. I then went through PayPal to get my money back. These guys can take your information and probably make fake ID's and credit cards and ruin your life. Check out www.itslelectric.com that site is real and has cool stuff.

Date of experience: June 21, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear JASON,

Thank you for taking your time to write your review. We really appreciate the feedback.

We want to offer my sincerest apologies to you for the issue.

Firstly, we need to clarify that:
Usually, to guarantee seller and buyer benefit, our financial department need to confirm the real some necessary identification. If the payment information was not matched with the identification or the Counterparty Status is unverified, this may lead to card fraud, if our customers are not willing to offer us the information, we will full refund to avoid more dispute due to the illegal using others card to pay to protect our real customer benefit.

Would you please give us your order number or the ticket number? We would like to check the details for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.

Best Regards
Customer Service

South Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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THEIFS! STAY AWAY!
June 21, 2015

I ordered a bunch of things from the site... took several weeks to get them when we did the phone had several issues with it and we returned it. They said we should be refunded in 1 week, it has been well over a month and still nothing! I cant seem to find their customer service number online to call them and the chat says i have 29 ppl ahead of me! I have emailed this company and have gotten no response! If I dont hear something very soon my lawyer will be contacting them for theft and fraud!

Date of experience: June 21, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Katy ,

Thank you for taking your time to write your review.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused.

Recently it is our busy season, there are lots of customers visiting our website, we may not be able to resolve your problem for you in time.
Would you please send us an email to [email protected] with your order information or the ticket number? We'll check for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.

Best Regards
Customer Service

Germany
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Everythings perfect
June 21, 2015

It was my first order by gearbest.
Everyting was ferfect. Very great and good quality product. Shipping with tracking.
The Contact with the support is perfect.

I will order there more times

Date of experience: June 21, 2015
DO
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Is going to be 2 moths since I ordered and my ordered did not arrived, so I sent messages or "tickets" in more than 3 occasions and I had no reply, and the tickets do not show on my profile. I've tried sending emails to *******@gearbest.com and to *******@outlook.com and had no reply. I waited more than the expected delivery time expecting they would answer my messages, and now I cannot claim it through paypal...

Date of experience: June 20, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Eliana,

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.

Best regard,
Gearbest.com

Norway
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Im really satisfied with gearbest. I ordered on may 16th and got my order the week after. The action cam i ordered is just as the discription said it would be. And if i got some questions they have a fast answering support. Fast and safe payment with paypal.
All in all gearbest.com is a very good site.

Date of experience: June 19, 2015
California
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Stay AWAY!
June 18, 2015

I purchased a android phone for about $90. I was happy about the purchase until a day later i found battery is bad. It doesn't stay up for more than 2 -3 hours. And i decided to return the item. Thats when the nightmare started.
After several messages they gave a suspicious address in China for return. (no label of course). Again, after several other messages, they finally gave a PO box on east coast.
I made the return paid for tracking and gave them the number.
Now, Item tracking shows that It has been delivered a long time.
Its been 2 months I am trying to get my money back but they deleted my ticket and return history so that there is no trace i ever asked for return. Nobody is responding and there is no other way of contact.
I curse the day I came across this site.
When you google reviews for this site, you see unusually high number of good reviews which hints they might very well be paid reviews.

Date of experience: June 18, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Rahul,

We are so grateful for this feedback. It means a lot to us.

We can not apologize enough for the inconvenience caused for you.
Could you please tell us your order number or ticket number so that we can offer you a better solution?

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

Best regards,
Gearbest.com

RU
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great!
June 18, 2015

I am satisfied with the quality of the goods. Sellers are very sociable. Goods ships out very quickly. And shipping is not long. Great costumer service! Very nice discounts system! I like this store, I will buy goods only here!
Review https://youtu.be/F4SWaqI6fk0

Date of experience: June 18, 2015
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They had the part, nobody else did. They got it to me quickly and got me back in the air. I'll use them again because the prices are right. They are really trying to be helpful.Top marks.

Date of experience: June 16, 2015
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Expedited Shipping
June 16, 2015

I keep getting messages about not being able to do express shipping to PO Boxes but the address I gave them was my home address. I try to explain it to them and the response I get is "Dear customer,

Thank you very much for placing your order with Nastydress.

I am extremely sorry to inform you that we cannot ship to an APO/PO BOX address using DHL due to their policies.
I would be grateful if you provide me with your physical address so we can ship with this courier, alternatively we can ship the order to you via EMS or regular post.

We hope to hear your decision very soon, so that we may send out your order as soon as possible.

Best Regards
Georgia"

Very close to cancelling my order.

AND I also made my order with GEARBEST and the person placing the ticket marked the order as being with NASTDRESS which I dont even know what that is.

Date of experience: June 16, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear loni,

Thank you for taking your time to write your review.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused.

We are Gearbest.com, not Nastydress.com.

Please send us an email to [email protected] with your order information, we'll check the details for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.

Best Regards
Customer Service

Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I am on the 4th business day waiting for my order that is still stuck in the processing stage. Submitted a ticket and the response was they need to test (QC check) the items before they can be shipped. Umm... isn't the QC check part of the manufacturer's responsibility before the items are distributed to resellers? They mentioned that the QC check process will take another 3-5 business days, so in total I will need to wait a maximum of 8 business days if I'm lucky. So much for "Ships in 3-5 business days" that they claim on their website.

They are affiliated with Everbuying.net. Both have similarities on their websites. Both have similarities with delaying the process of orders and the responses from their reps are the same. Best to avoid these guys.

Date of experience: June 16, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear loni,

Thank you for taking your time to write your review. We really appreciate the feedback.
First, we want to offer my sincerest apologies to you for the issue.

After the receiving of your order, we conduct Quality Control checks and testing in order to ensure the product's quality prior to shipment. The processing time varies depending on the specific product with the average processing time approximately 3-5 business days; however, it can also be affected by the item's stock status. If your order includes popular items experiencing stock availability issues, the order can take between 5-10 business days or more time to process.

Please send us an email to [email protected] and give us the order number, we'll check the details for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.

Best Regards
Customer Service

New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Gearbest took my money, I paid for fast shipping, they sent me tracking number... but my phone is over two week in Singapore waiting for DHL airplane...? DHL is late 2 weeks? DON'T USE GEARBEST SHOP... I asked for money return... they wrote me they sent phone June 4... I contacted yesterday (June 13) with DHL, somebody from custumer service checked status of trucking number and told me "The shipment has not been tendered to DHL yet. The Air Waybill was created, but the shipment has not been shipped out physically" THEY ARE CROOKS AND THIEVES... Thanks God I used Paypal and I opened a case to return my money...

Date of experience: June 14, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Aleksandra,

Thank you for taking your time to write your review. We really appreciate the feedback.

Please send us an email to [email protected] with your order information, we'll check and resolve this matter for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.
We regret for any inconvenience or trouble that caused by us.

Best Regards
Customer Service

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Excellent choice of items to purchase from Gearbest at very good and competitive prices - much lower than similar websites.
Delivery by overseas post was quick - around 8 days - and you can use PayPal to pay for items.
Quality of items was very good, and updates about the status of the order were prompt.
Very pleased with the service from Gearbest and will definitely use them for future purchases.

Date of experience: June 13, 2015
Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Wonderfull
June 14, 2015

I am buying Gearbest months and am very happy with all my purchases, I have always received my products in good condition and on time. They are a wonderful online store.

Date of experience: June 12, 2015
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellant website
June 14, 2015

Hi, I would highly recommend gearbest to anyone because of the quality of the products and especially the prices, delivery is first class, I've told all my friends and they love it as well, Michael fenton

Date of experience: June 12, 2015
Missouri
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I am going to put exactly what I have been sending to support with no response to date!

Hello,
Reviewing the messages on this items it appears the item is now in stock. I am wanting to confirm/know when my order will be shipped out?
Thank you,
Jason

So according to your policy I should have received a response to my question in 24 hours. However, I have not. This is not acceptable. I am looking for a simple answer that if this item is indeed in stock as it has been noted on the item question page then when can I expect mine to ship?
Thank you,
Jason

Further, more I see that this item is now listed as out of stock. I sure hope this means that my item has been shipped. If not and I have to wait longer for this item to return to stock then I will expect to be compensated with premium shipping option at no cost to me. Thank you, Jason

Today is the 5th working day since the payment has cleared and I have yet to receive any shipping or tracking information regarding the item I purchased. As well I am not receiving a response from support regarding my concerns. To date all protocols set forth by GearBest to respond back in 24 hours to support questions and to ship the item in 5 working days have been broken.
To be honest this so far has not been an pleasent transaction and reflects badly on GearBest and it's support and staff. I can only hope that this transaction can be completed with positive results. Thank you, Jason

I am seriously worried I have been taken to me is a good amount of money. I at this point don't feel safe suggesting their site or services to anyone I know. Unless the problem is seriously turn around and rectified.

Date of experience: June 12, 2015
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Hi

They stated that they had stock of the phone, I orders and was told it is in QC and only after a few followups did they acknowledge they did not have stock and took their time at refunding me

Date of experience: June 11, 2015
Lily L. Gearbest Rep
over a year old

Dear Wayne,

Thank you for your recent review.
First, we would like to apologize for this issue for the issue.

Please send us an email to [email protected] and offer us your order information. We would like to resolve this issue for you.

Thank you again for bringing these matters to our attention.

Best Regards
Customer Service

Ukraine
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Elephone P3000S 3GB
June 10, 2015

I am satisfied with the store gearbest.com. High-quality products, fast delivery, good packaging goods. Many shares for a large number of goods. Having proper description of each product.
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Date of experience: June 9, 2015

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