I’ll add this item to the list as well. Just to confirm: the item was listed as “in stock” when you ordered it?
Yup. Shipping availability quoted below. I'm not trying to bash GB here, but surely they can improve this.
Thanks! OP updated.
OK, I am ready to receive SK98 bundle pack 
Took a total of 10 days from order to delivery. Ordered on the 11th and shipped on the 15th.
Jacob A60 and with a i2 and a cable for my phone came out to $22 shipped including the $2 tracking that I paid for.
From Shenzhen to Hong Kong? 10 days J)
They contacted me via Youtube to do a review of a bike light. Unfortunately I had to turn them down. I have never ordered anything from them though. Just adding to the conversation here….
Sunny southern CA :bigsmile:
I was also asked to review a flashlight with an offer to review more if my review went well. After I accepted, I was sent links and asked to post other items they had on sale. We had several good detailed conversations (which surprised me). I explained the concept of shilling and that only people without ethics and a shaky reputation would even consider it. (Yes, we all know who you are.) I also mentioned how tacky referral links are, and how far too many shameless members post links in hopes of earning a few cents on a product that they know nothing about… or worse, one thats junk or overpriced. Hopefully this will be addressed soon because I believe it reflects poorly on BLF and the grubs that are willing to do anything to earn a few dollars. REAL TAAAACKY and makes BLF look like a Chinese fish market packed full of lowlife shills. :Sp
Pending my review, I also tested their system by purchasing an item to gauge vendor performance… with a hidden surprise “simulation” they will not be aware of until I spring it on them. Can you tell I hate shills and vendors that rip off others? Haha! No worries… they will read this here and still not be able to connect this account to my purchase account. 
Call it a “blind case study”.
Being new, Gearbest is going through growing pains while learning the ropes of a new vendor and the proper ethics of conducting business. If members continue to receive unsolicited messages from them to post untested products, lets hear about it here. Id like to think they have learned their marketing lessons. If not, I wasted a lot of my time in explaining to them. My communications have been outstanding with them and I received satisfying articulate replies within 24 hrs. Lets hope they will continue to grow and fill the void where so many others had a good start and fell flat on their faces as they grew. Fingers crossed! 
They approached me as well I guess after seeing the Sunwayman D40A deal I posted that banggood had. Sadly, after chatting with them, they were giving me prices and coupons on lots of different flashlights, and while adding that stuff to the cart and seeing the final price after the coupon, it was in no way the lowest price. Fasttech has lower prices on those same items, without a coupon! I'm sorry, but if they are not going to give the lowest prices available, it's not worth posting about.
All the shills aren’t a great way to be publicized so I’d say they’re off to a rough start as far as ethics are concerned.
If Gearbest does turn out great, I also hope that they are able to stay that way for a while.
My first $0.10 survival tool arrived in 4 weeks and the second in 2.5 weeks.
Not too bad, but the quality of the card tools were pretty shabby that I wouldn’t spend more than what I did on each.
Earlier in the thread, racoon city shared a PM asking him to post an offer on slickdeals.net in exchange for compensation. Earlier today, I saw someone else do exactly that type of post. Now here’s the twist: at least in the USA it’s illegal not to fully disclose that you are being compensated for something. I’m not sure where this site is hosted and whether the owner has filed for safe harbor status or if that even applies in this case, but situations like this could potentially cause legal trouble for the site owner if he is aware that users are doing that and does not act. And how reliable can someone’s recommendation be when they are being secretly compensated for making that recommendation?
tl;dr version: fail @ trust building.
Controversial Get It Free program:
http://user.gearbest.com/my-get_it_free.html
May explain why some are so eager to advertise Gearbest items here. :party:
They also offered me light for review, they also want me to do reviews in Turkish forums.
I am not active on Turkish forums, so they have not sent me any lights for review 
my $1 order of a red laser and multicolor led light has arrived safely.
It seems they are a legit company.
We don’t need Gearbest searching BLF for people to become shills for them. For some it can be hard to pass up “free” flashlights. It may not seem harmful at first but every spam post Gearbest gets someone to post for them degrades BLF.
It seems they’ve been informed that we don’t appreciate their behavior. Time is short to change before they crash & burn on BLF.
@ Racer - If that post was mine, then I am sorry if there is any trouble caused. I just asked them for the cheapest coupon they could do on it and then would post it. I don’t have any affiliate relationship there. In fact, the only affiliate I had ever done was for an exduct BLF giveaway that never got paid out to me for the giveaway. In general, I will post deals if I think it’s a good deal and that’s it. I won’t do that for compensation of any kind. I would do reviews for things if given them for review like many others, though that chance hasn’t happened much for me.
…and that’s the slipper slope they are on. Given their behavior, no one knows who’s who and what’s what. If we know they are spamming members with offers of coupons and free stuff in exchange for posting here and on sites like slickdeals.net, and then those posts suddenly appear, how does the community distinguish between legitimate links and shill links? The line gets blurred.
True, I always check for the affiliate tags on the end of links I click and avoid shortened links. I agree that it makes it hard when there are new faces all the time. I know that I can click through brted’s dx stuff since he brings it back for a giveaway. I will try to be judicious in any future deals. If I ever receive anything for review I will disclose that too. I was always a fan of Foy’s ideals from early on since it was simpler:
”
No referral links and nothing embedded . . . ever.
- buybehappyFoy
”
Gearbest is obviously reading this thread, so lets hope they take all this great free advice before they sink themselves. Its nice that they have that choice now, where as so many others didnt get this valuable feedback before making unforgivable mistakes.
Along those lines, maybe SB could comment if now might be a great time to add to BLF policy and kill all the shill/referral links that are beginning to dominate and ruin this forum. I agree that the lure of easy money has proven to be uncontrollable to many members here. So much that they often get engrossed in the moment of “free” and post ridiculously overenthusiastic reviews of poor to mediocre flashlights… and they have no idea of what a complete ass it makes them seem in front of others. Heck, my first free light review had that overly enthusiastic tone and I was lucky enough to emend it before posting… so I can understand how easy it might be to get carried away. Its human nature to do so, and with no BLF policy to police this particular bad behavior it winds up being abused repeatedly.
I was allowed to pick my GB review sample from one they didnt carry, and I asked them to add it to their inventory. Mainly because I think it will perform in a positive way above its competition. If not, it should make for one heck of a great mod host. But my review is pending the arrival of a separate private order to give a more rounded opinion of this vendors performance. Hopefully others will follow suit in my “blind case study” test, which should hopefully prove the willingness of the vendor to help an average customer that incurred a bad buying experience. Time will tell…
Comments?