But how do they or you or I know that the 10 remaining unit is safe to use? Whould you have taken the risk, selling them to customers, or giving them away to family and friends, and then you hear that their house burned down, because they charged it when they was out of the house or something?
So how can we be sure the other units is safe? I will not test one and one to find out, it was not a fun thing to experience, and what if the issue do not happen at once, but later on?
So my question is, how can GB, or any member here, or my self, be 100% sure that the 10 remaining units is 100% safe to use?
As you are selling them on, and demanding a refund for them all, you should be testing them, or are you saying GB should refund you for untested units??
You should get a refund for all the units as they are clearly unsafe. But you should now be doing it through PayPal. Otherwise you are just going round in circles.
Gearbest.com have turned around, and they have really did their best the last days to make this right. They have also taken good action about other products that has been fake.
So they are now doing thing right. For this case, I got a full refund on my paypal account. On some other issues, I will take a store credit, and try to buy some other goods. I have to thank Karen and Gina on this forum, trying to make the best of the situation, and I admit that I may have overreacted a little with this thread. But after using over $1000 on one month, and starting to get bad items, and then fake items, and with some “bad” replies on the ticket system, it got to much for me.
In about a month, I hope I can rapport back that my business with Gearbest.com is really good, and that they are sending good products to a nice price.
Maye, but then with a paypal claim, for they did really not wanting me to get a refund if I did not delete the first thread (not this one).
And still, the thread was not for me to get a refund, but to show the members of BLF how they wanted to censor this forum and me. So the refund is a bonus, but was not my main goal.
I had a similar thread going a few years ago about Nitecore. I only posted here for support from fellow members.
The problem was solved, and I just asked the admin to lock the thread.
Since then I have purchased around 10 Nitecore flashlights, I love their products, and held no hard feelings and just moved on.
I think the op is also after some support, until the anger goes away, and then he can move on also.
I am sure the op will still shop again at GearBest , just needs some time for the unfortunate incident to be in the past. Life is to short guys, lets enjoy our hobby.
i see the ce mark on plenty of dangerous junk.also ul and ul component marks.all forged.even fake e numbers.
thats the number under the backwards ur.these are just a waste of ink as they mean nothing on this class of product.that will be the next opportunity to shave a fraction of a cent off the cost of such an item!
i have a junky charger a customer brought by for me to look at.it has all the usual ce,ul ,csa,and also a aga stamp!this is for gas fired items!
this thing has up to 240vac within 2mm of the 5v to the chip.and the fuse is a trace shaped like the symbol for a fuse.i told him the only repair i was willing to make on it was to pound it to dust with my 20lb hammer.
these days the only way to be safe with cheap stuff is to inspect it and know what you are looking at!
If you are referring to me, I did it because I had lots of batteries, and wanted to sell them in power banks to make profit.
Of all the DIY power banks out there, this type had most info on its page (most likely just copied from Xiaomi) and had a metal body I wanted, in different colors that I wanted, and the price was not so low that I could just expect that it was crap.
I know you can buy real Xiaomi 5000 PB for just a few dollar more, but then I still would have a large stock of batteries I have paid allot for.
Now I using SoShine 4 x 18650 power banks, tested out for a month here at home, works 100%. So feel safer selling them. But they are not so nice like the Xiaomi style PBs.
Mine had been ok as well for the past few years, until about 5 or 6 months ago. Contacted them about a defective product, got no response. Figured it was cheap and wasn’t worth the trouble since it was around one of their holidays. Then after a few other orders, one arrived damaged in shipping and unusable. Contacted them again and got no response so I escalated through the ticketing system this time. After several attempts to get updates, nothing but silence. Mind you I have probably well over 100 orders and maybe around $1k spent with them and have only had maybe 5 or 6 claims, all of which were small less than $10 items. Haven’t ordered from them since.
If something goes wrong with your order, watch out!
I had to drag them through the entire PayPal claim process a few months ago for an order that went completely missing in transit. Gearbest just kept stalling in an attempt to run down the PayPal clock.
PayPal came through for me and I got my refund in full. Thank you, PayPal!
My advice: when using Gearbest, always pay with PayPal.
