GEARBEST 11.11 Giveaway! Win RovyVon's unique lights. WINNERS POSTED in OP

The new winner is post # 121…. SIGShooter.

prize: ROVYVON A8 350lm USB Charging EDC Flashlight – Transparent Amber+Red+Blue ( https://www.gearbest.com/led-multi-function-flashlights/pp_009119177479….

Please contact GEARBEST within 3 working days starting today…otherwise a new winner will be drawn.

Congrats SIGShooter :slight_smile:

Again, SIGShooter has not contacted in the prescribed period so I will draw another winner soon.

….and the new winner is post #99: Henk4U2

prize: ROVYVON A8 350lm USB Charging EDC Flashlight – Transparent Amber+Red+Blue ( https://www.gearbest.com/led-multi-function-flashlights/pp_009119177479….

Please contact GEARBEST within 3 working days starting today…otherwise a new winner will be drawn. :beer:

Congrats...

Yet again!

Congratulations and thanks, tatasal and Gearbest! :slight_smile:

Wowzer, third time’s a charm.
Or am I not supposed to say (write) that?

Thank you Gearbest and tatasal.

And I will contact Gearbest in about 5 seconds from now!

I just received the RovyVon Aurora A8 flashlight.

Is perfect !!!

From the pictures I thought it was bigger, but in fact it was very small. That’s great EDC light.

Thank you again for GAW.

It is always nice to win something. The proper thing to do (IMHO) is to let know that the gift has safely arrived in your hand. And to thank those responsible for organising the contest for their efforts. As Petr Sixta did in the post before.

But this is not always the case. The person I will thank is tatasal, for organising this GAW and to interfere with Gearbest about the prize to be send. But in this case no prize was received. Let we walk you through it.

November 27th I noticed I won a prize. Same day I PM-ed Gearbest with my vital statistics.
November 28th Gearbest asked me to rewrite all the formation I just gave them in the order they provided. I did. And asked me if I could send in a review of the prize. To which I agreed.
November 29th they PM-ed me the shipment was applied for and I would get a tracking number asap.
December 22nd I told them I still was waiting for my tracking number.
December 25th they told me the light would be in stok on Dec.31rd and I would get a tracking number.
March 12th they wrote (after many PM’s) there is a new CS person and the light was still out of stock. But if I wanted to receive another object with same value I could make a suggestion. So I did.
March 13th they replied the light I wanted was also out of stock and came with a counter suggestion. Well……. apparently you can’t look a gifted horse in the mouth, but there are limits. So I send them two new alternatives.

That’s when tatasal, who organised the GAW, jumped in and said all lights I wanted were out of stock. And that Gearbest had given him a list with items I could choose from. That were mostly wall and ceiling light fixtures, but I did not want a big box to be flagged by customs. So I asked for a set of four E27 light bulbs, being the only useful item in the list. I had to confirm that choice a few times and at last on
March 20th I got a PM saying:

Hello Henk4U2,

I have replaced the product for you.

Best regards,
Linda

And that was the last I heard from Gearbest. tatasal wrote me that they have (again) a new CS person. But they haven’t accessed their sales thread in over three weeks now. So it looks that Gearbest is leaving BLF in search for greener pastures alsewhere.
And I’m quite convinced that though I may have won, it will leave me empty handed.

wow, shocking.
I haven’T ordered from them yet. Are the GAWs real on this website or just a game? Do people normally get stuff?

thanks

I haven’t been around here that long but from what I’ve seen they generally work pretty well. The last two have not gone to plan though (this one and Vapcell only sending one cell instead of two).

OMG that is shocking Henk, so sorry to hear.
Perhaps GB being involved in giveaways should be halted from now on, I believe it’s not the first, or last time they will let a competition winner down badly.
If they don’t come through on the prizes, then it’s just a big free PR exercise to make them look good (most will never know prizes weren’t received)
I hope you get something in the end, even if it turns out to be entirely different from what you chose.

Maybe time to boycott Gearbest gaws on BLF

Being a bit OCD I have a spreadsheet of everything I do concerning this hobby. Including GAW’s
On average there are 30 GAW/yr other than “only US citizens”. Which is OK: your GAW, your rules.
I would say that roughly 29 of those run as planned.

Once in a while companies obviously have no intention of giving anything away (GAW = clickbait).
In a few cases some individuals did the same, like a guy offering to donate all his top-end lights.
Or someone else postponing every time the goal(date) came within reach.
Sometimes grave personal circumstances have prevented donors to send their prizes.
And in a few cases there was a mix-up with Chinese companies about the word “gift”.
They had the idea that asking less than the usual price for something also can be called a gift.

Until now Gearbest has been very generous in the GAW department. Year after year.
For me personally, my very first win on BLF was an Olight S15R donated by Gearbest. Some 5yr ago.
I would call this behaviour very atypical for GAW’s on BLF in general, and for Gearbest in particular.

There are issues with other giveaways here at BLF too….

Battery related…

Thanks for the clarification and the details! I didn’t know people have spreadsheets for GAWs :wink: Very organized!

well, I hope that you will get your prize or coupon or similar at some point from Gearbest.

Wonder if the Nitecore tiki or this came first….looks like same light

This spreadsheet was originally created to keep track of outstanding orders (what, where, when), arrivals and total cost of this hobby. The GAW’s were more like collateral damage.

That’s sad to hear Wim!
I once made a chart with my orders, i was shocked about my spendings.
That was 2 years ago, i stopped updating the chart :smiley:

Maybe i should do a Dutch gaw

Speaking of which ..I'm still waiting on any battery much less just one from that GAW .