I still have not received my C8 yet. I am still waiting. It is really slowest shipping I have experienced, even considering it is from China.
There’s another experience. I ordered a multimeter from them. It should be free shipping. However, they also listed having a priority US shipping for $1.25 and derivery time will be 4 - 7 days. From the C8 experience, I paid $1.25. When I saw the order receipt, it says standard shipping. I opened a ticket and their reply was it is from China so there was no priority shipping but no mention about what was the $1.25 for. I asked through the ticked but have not get reply yet.
I am not sure GearBest is an honest company. My experience with GB is much worse than others similar companies such Banggood.
I will try not to order from them again if there are other alternatives.
Abut shipping, twice have I used expedited shipping at Gearbest.com. Both times the shipping has cost more money then the item(s) I have ordered, because of the stupid $40-42 limit here in Norway. (over $42 or $40, depending on the currency, I have to pay 25% VAT on all, including shipping and $30 in custom fee).
The first package got here within 4 days after they sent it. It took some days before they sent it, but it was delivered on my door.
The second shipment, took for ever. I actually forgot that I had paid for the second package (item = $18, shipping = $22), it took so long time, suddenly DHL called me and I got this package, totally forgot what or where I had ordered it from. But it was from Gearbest.com. In the same time frame, Gearbest.com had sent me normal shipping packages, ordered after the DHL package, and they had been delivered. At that time I had no control over all the packages that was incoming from GB, BG, DX, Ebay, Alibaba and Aliexpress, if it had been only the one package I was waiting for and had ordered, I had sent a complaint after a week. I think the total shipping time with DHL was 3 weeks or so. So a waste of money, thats for sure.
My observation is that GearBest has some good deals. However, they try to squeeze out as much from shipping as possible. I don’t like this. Not that their total price is good but I don’t think this is an honest approach. In my view, honesty is most important in business.
Thanks for trying to make a difference Tom 
I hope they listen.
I have gotten refund from them before without using paypal dispute, but they REALLY drag it out for months & months, the trick is as always be very nice & pleasant as in all the dealings with any vendor you want a refund from.
But i totally get why some just use the paypal dispute very early because it can be grating to deal with.
@myhken, you seem to order a lot of stuff, maybe you could set up a postbox in Sweden if you live near the border, because i have never had to pay anything in customs or taxes when buying from china, as long as i use the slowest shipping like CPAM or other slow airmail options. Just never use express couriers like DHL, Fedex, EMS & such if you do it is insta tax & customs + plenty of extra fees on any value, even as low as $28 value as in the last DHL order a seller mistakenly sent me.
I think Gearbest.com has fixed their problems with the Convoy series now. Today I got my last shipment of 4 x New Edition C8 and 3 x S2+ (red) and all was genuine, not fakes. The red ones come in gift box, with info on the side (how many 7135 it has). The package was sent 8.august 2015.
Thanks for the info, Ken.
-Chuck
Just ordered a C8 with credit from a fake S2+. Hope she’s real!!!
I am still waiting for mine to arrive! It’s 27 days and counting……
Got ya beat. 29 days since I ordered 2 red S2+’s.
They shipped my Red S2+ replacement with the slow untrackable shipping. I got it in about 30 days. The wife was pleased with it.
mines 34th day still counting
Does anyone know who actually does the assembly on these?
I am confident buying directly from Simon that whatever variation I order, he pays attention to see that all the variations he sends out have been done carefully with good parts.
When I buy from a reseller and ask for a variation, I’d sure like to know whether they just pass that order on to Simon, or have someone in their back room make the modifications.
Simon does the assembly. If the lights are legit then yes they pass the order to Simon and he builds them. In the past as we know, they’ve just filled some of the orders with fake Convoys. The third party also adds a great deal of shipping time. Gearbest just commented on their own thread because Simon told one of our members that he has not shipped any blue S2+ to Geabest. Their reply was that they listed them but they don’t actually have them yet. It seems they wait until several orders come in and then order from Simon. Knowing that is just one more reason to avoid Gearbest and order direct from Simon. With the BLF discount he is giving us and free ePacket shipping why go anywhere else? Gearbest might save you a dollar but shipping will be much longer and you risk getting a substandard product. Not to mention GB’s customer service record is awful while Simon’s is excellent.
Received the resending from Gearbest, and this time its the real deal S2+.
Happy now, but learned my lesson and will order directly from Simon now if i need anything Convoy.
Still thanks to CSGearbest for sorting things very quickly!
I’m glad that Gearbest is at least fixing some of their “mistakes” but they’re still just plain dishonest about what they sell.
Take their listing for the new blue Convoy S2+ which shows the following.
They already have 21 excellent reviews yet they have not even ordered the lights from Simon yet. That’s odd…
This light also puts out 1000 lumens! Strange, that’s not what Simon says…
Oh cool and this one has toughened AR coated glass! Oh wait…that’s a lie too. The S2+ just has a standard glass lens.
When called out for their false advertising they claim that they didn’t know and that the supplier listed the specs. That’s certainly not the case with Convoy and Simon is the supplier. Another falsehood…
Oh now I see. The reviews are actually for the red S2+. Funny, there are no bad reviews even for all the fakes they sold. Oh right, I forgot… they only publish the good reviews and if you give it a bad review on another site and they find out they try to bribe you into removing the bad review.
Seriously… why would anyone buy from a company like that???
Anyway, enough of my ranting. Sorry bout that. :zipper_mouth_face:
Certainly agree.
People love to save money. I do. It’s like gambling with GB. But people get the sense that the odds aren’t that bad and they risk it.
As many people knows, I was a real Gearbest skeptical after using over $1000 on under one month. They tried to “bribe” me, censor me etc. And I got fake Convoy S2+, and other crappy product.
But they really have fixed all issues, and in the end, very well. I have used at least $500 there after all my issues, and now, good products, legit products etc etc.
So I think the are getting better and better for each day. My last test to them, 12 x Samsung 30Q batteries for $3.7 each, only hours before they increased their price to over $5. If they send out that order, I have no issues with them at all.
We all make mistakes, there is how we recover from thees mistakes that is important.
42 days for a red S2+, received it yesterday.
This time not a fake. and really nice. Would have preferred 3B tint, as opposed to the 4C.
+1 on buying from Simon directly.
Apart from getting the real thing first time, he has many options for the tint and driver.
Interesting. 42 days… a ridiculously long time to wait for a flashlight and yet such an interesting number. Toykeeper would agree…
got mine. im verry happy coz all of them are originals!