a week ago I've ordered a phone from your site, after checking that it's available in stock, payed via paypal.
a day after, I've made another purchase. my paypal account was charged for both.
this is when it gets interesting. while the second order managed to be fulfilled and shipped, the first order (phone+accesories) was put on hold requiring me to "provide ID and credit card photo". after I've said that it waspaid with paypal, I was asked to verify my account (even though vendors can't actually check if a paypal account is verified or not), so I've sent a screenshot showing I was already charged for this deal, and nothing else is needed. after that i didn't get any more replys, so I've opened a new ticket, asking for "order status", and got a reply that "item is out of stock and will be availbel in 7-15 days" giving me the choice to cancel or wait. I replyed asking which of the items in the order were missing, so i can decide, and got answered that "all of them" which is redicolus, especially since these items are currently sold on the site with 3-5 days processing time. I've asked yet another question to which I got no reply yet. so to be annoying I decided to open another ticket. no reply yet.
so, from a consumer point of view, I had here a try for identity theaft, wrong details as to product availability (even though asked before hand), and all around bad service with slow response.
what's more annoying is that ordering this phone now from any other site, after black friday/cyber monday deals, will cost me about 50$ then it would have if I didn't order from gearbest.
alos would love to know how the first order got all this trouble, while the second one is (supposedly atleast) on they way...
so tl;dr:
best case scenario - site oversell it's inventory, then delays delivery using these "paypal not verifid" nonsense and slow mail response to "buy time"
worst-case: this is actually a front for identity theft.
any case scenario - just bad all around.
I would be interested to see what this site has got to say about this.
order:
W1511260954385372
tickets:
T15120215604
T15120407015
AT15112703716
T15120204029
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