Things have not been going well for GB since the fall of 2019. Their strategy to turn things around was apparently some kind of micro budgetting. Which in reality was more like cheating customers. With their CS as special forces. Good choice on their website, but no stock. What’s left were high priced lights with unknown brands.
When I joined BLF there was some GB bashing going on, I never understood why. IMHO they were at least on par with BG. Good CS, I never felt cheated. All that changed in 2019. Have not ordered anything since then. Can’t say I miss them.
I mentioned in a different thread that I used to have sometimes 2-3 orders in the air at any given time from GB because they had great choice and great prices, but then people started having “issues” with them. And then refunds started turning into “points” and “wallets” that were pretty much unusable. Interest waned, as people didn’t want to get screwed.
Most of my knives and lights came from GB, and more crap like fidgets, USB lights, torx-bit sets, etc., but then with the flash sales that would start at 0-dark-30 and be sold out at like 30sec past, I stopped even trying. Complaints from others about this or that, I got wary, and stopped ordering from GB unless I absolutely needed something.
Then AX came along and supplanted that until they started charging their fake “sales tax” that I’m so sure they remitted to the respective states. Think GB shortly followed suit. Only FT doesn’t do that, which is why I still order stuff from ’em.
Point being, they were a value shop, then got greedy and started to squeeze. And the tighter you squeeze, the more that slips through your fingers. And now they’re gone. Big surprise.
Shame, too, ’cause they were really good as far as selection and prices.
Can’t say I’m surprised. Last time I browsed there, most of what I wanted was out of stock, or i could get it cheaper from AE with free shipping. I also heard of the scamming and shady dealing with refunds and warranty returns si I never purchased anything there.
I haven’t bought from FT either. No need to with AE and eBay.
I have bought several items from GB since i became a BLF member, they used to be quite good, but the last 2 years they were extremely pricey and did not offer many choices.
I’ve used GB a lot in the past, they where great in vape-stuff but also some lights and knives and other assorted stuff bought there. Some time ago the vape-stuff was gone overnight and everything started to change, shipping went from one of the fastest to slow if it even came at all. That was the time to stop shopping with GB and it seems I wasn’t the only one who thought so.
Some time ago the newsletters in my email stopped, didn’t even notice till now………
Like so many here, it had been at least a couple of years since I used them. In hindsight you could see that they were on the slide so maybe it shouldn’t be so much of a shock to us if true.
I would use AE if they had PayPal
Anyway I look forward to a new China offering that will maintain the long standing tradition of using English badly and gets the naming backwards.
There are so many of these online stores…which one does one go to??? 