To answer the op, yes, GB gives real tracking number. GB has more than 1,000 employees, they are big business in online-vending, just like BG or FT for that matter, and I am sure those vendors won’t try to just even attempt to give us fake tracking number, for it will not be in their best interest, to put it just very mildly.
Sure, there are times I was given a wrong tracking number (a number was wrong, that was from FT iirc) or they ship it out of the gate not as fast as we want it to be, but in all fairness to everyone, personally I would never expect FEDEX, UPS or DHL shipping speed for something I paid very, very little, and even free shipping in almost all cases previously.
Does the tracking number end in NL? It is on way.
It will change at any time, when it arrives in Netherlands, to The item is at the PostNL sorting center and later to The item is on transport to the country of destination
Probably more “fake news”.
GearBest, like many big merchants, don’t actually store and ship most of the goods themselves. They function more like an umbrella organization for all the smaller companies that actually handle the goods.
So my guess is that nothing has physically been sent yet.
Thanks for this tatasal. This one works. I have a DHL tracking number that was "not found" when I try to track it directly at DHL's website but I was able to track it using the website you posted.
Keeping a shortcut to this website for future tracking : -)
Hmm… there must be some irregularities here, I ordered last february 5, and as of this writing February 20, “the item is pre-advised” is still the status. :person_facepalming: Banggood has faster delivery and more status update.
Oh, I would’t worry much about that ‘pre-advised’ notice, it happens plenty of times, perhaps the typist simply does not update right away, haha.
Sometimes tracking suddenly updates and jumping to ‘dispatched to country of destination’.
I experienced similar notices a lot of times since I started buying online, regardless who the vendor is.
Yeah, they are just shipping info from Unregistered Parcels, invoice shipping record or waybill, which is entirely different, and obviously just that, no tracking information.
USPS even issues shipping label but sometimes does not update promptly even when package already shipped.