IMHO GB is doing something very clumsy with their website.
After the -search “nitecore site:gerabest.com” you come to the Nitecore corner.
From there you can go anywhere as long as you are NOT clicking on home page.
And there was the Gearbest data breach Report - Gearbest Hack: Hundreds of Thousands Affected Daily by Huge Data Breach. Their customer database was left wide open. When confronted about it, Gearbest denied it, then later said “it’s fixed”. Weeks later, someone posted that it was indeed not fixed, and never was. In fact, he showed how anyone with the slightest computer knowledge could view the GB database. Wide open to the public.
Personally, I don’t trust any of these companies, including Aliexpress. If they don’t take paypal, I don’t buy from the them.
Yeh, I was gonna suggest, one last cash-grab before going under completely?
Rack up a bunch of new orders, fake shipping them and/or stalling, then when maxed out, transfer all funds somewhere safe and pull all plugs simultaneously.
Site is accessible but no ordering is allowed for all regions. Doesn't look good at this point. I logged in to replaced my shipping details with dummy texts.
Not sure about others, but i have good memories with GearBest and their staffs whom i contact regularly back in 2016-2018. I really miss working with their reps during their heyday, it was an enriching experience for me. It is really unfortunate to see them go.
GB sank to new lows in recent years, with their terrible/non-existent customer service and high prices. Its good to see them finally sink into the abyss. Paypal may have given them “the boot” for their shady business practices and all the customer complaints/refund guarantees they generated. Im sorry for those who got ripped off by those scoundrels.
They definitely did support us here on BLF for many years, but unfortunately looks like they got too big and too unethical to keep operating. It wasn’t all of them, most of their employees that I dealt with for advertising on BLF seemed to be very decent people, but “a fish rots from the head down” as the saying goes in many Slavic languages. I’m still rather shocked though, it seemed too big to fail.