Is Gearbest GONE !

Yes, looks like GearBest is gone. Last email I got from them was the end of May. Too bad they aren’t an option anymore for flashlight stuff.

Jesus! I nearly bought from them a few days ago!

I stopped visiting GB after they came out with the BS $0.01 flash sale…

The flashlight was a lie?

Article headline: Gearbest's parent company is in "bankruptcy review" LINK

BBB profile has an alert: LINK.

"Pattern of Complaint: BBB files indicate a pattern of complaints concerning customer service, shipping and billing practices of Gearbest.com. Consumers are telling BBB that the business is not delivering items within the promised delivery date. Many consumers that purchased merchandise from Gearbest.com say that they still have not received the ordered merchandise after several weeks have passed. Some consumers that do receive their orders tell BBB that items received are defective. Many consumers claim that they [are] offered store credit instead of the refund they are seeking after their items are not received. Numerous consumers report a lot of difficulty in getting a response [from] the company’s customer service department, despite multiple attempts to reach them by telephone or email. Several consumers that do interact with the company’s customer service team are allegedly told that their products have been shipped and they are provided with a tracking number. Those consumers claim that the tracking numbers received from Gearbest.com are not valid and cannot be traced by the shipping carrier (FedEx, USPS)."

My GB App still works for me.

Robert

Aliexpress comes up in a foreign language for me. Can’t use it. How do English speakers use it?

Don’t see the relevance with GearBest, but here you go.
Somewhere in the top-righthand-corner of your screen you see the sign of a shopping cart. Just above that you see a flag. Click on the flag and you get a menu for nation, language and currency. On my screen, anyway.

Oops, there goes my $2 in store credit.

You’re lucky, I have (I had…) around 15 euro=17-18$ :person_facepalming: :cry: :rage: :rage: :rage:

Top right of the home page allows you to select the language. May not be in english at login, but that is the drop down for language selection to change to english, or other languages.

Interesting, I’ve not used them for over a year at this point. I used to use them for flashlights and tools etc.
I remember maybe a year and a half ago I was asked by them to review some lights which sounded ok until they sent me a bizarre google docs spreadsheet
thing I had to fill in and I could only review a load of lights I had either never heard of or looked like ebay fodder.
Turned them down. I didn’t get a professional feeling from them at that point so I’m not surprised if they are now gone.

Worked thanks.

AE probably will kill them all eventually.

Maybe Banggood will GO soon, too. One can hope….

Good riddance to GearBest’s terrible customer service.

Good Old Days...

Shout out to all ex-GearBest reps for bringing in these fun projects for BLF.

Yep, I still got 2 of those Zaflare lanterns (T1?). One right here in front of me.

Came in handy last Christmas when a tree keeled over and knocked down powerlines. Had nice warm-white light all night on one charge. Magnetic base, so stuck it to the frame of the doorbell-chime, nice and high vs a table-lamp shining right in my eyes.

And the (also Zanflare) F1 lights I still say have probably the best thought-out design I’d seen in a long time, before and since.

That S1 mini was the best - great output with the aspheric lens.

I managed to snap up 4 of the T1 lanterns, one for each member for the family. Still going strong apart from one USB charge port dropping inside the light.

The C8F I got is not one of my favorites.

I still got the zanflate lantern and use it from time to time, love the output and strong magnet. It would’ve been an excellent lantern if not for the overly complicated UI.