Quickest and most reliable Gearbest shipping method right now: America Line / IB

You got an IB #? If so, what does myib.com say? Mine worked well.

This is a current order of mine in progress of shipping: http://www.myib.com/tracking/default?j=1&tnum=IB14524508785575

This is one I received: http://www.myib.com/tracking/default?j=1&tnum=IB14505349515933.

It's not super fast, but it's trackable, predictable so far at least...

yeppers, mine shows at ib.com. so far so good..shall see

Many or most of the big sellers do not carry stock themselves. They either sell the items and have the person that has the stock ship it, or they have the stock come to them and then ship it. Most do not have a huge warehouse. What they do is to use the Taobao Chinese E-network for shopping and buy from smaller sellers, or direct from manufacturers. It's a nightmare from what I have learned. There are literally thousands of very small shops for all kinds of things and those shops might carry just a few items, or bunches of items, stuffed in their small shops. Think of a giant strip mall with nothing but small stores and that's kind of how it works. The big sellers are basically just resellers, buying from wherever stuff is and reselling, or drop shipping. It ends up being a cluster ____ many times, for us and for them. but it is what it is.

The fact that you do not actually know who actually handles the stuff, makes for a bunch of complaints on broken items, items packed poorly, scratches and scuffs, etc. It's bad for the seller, because they probably did not handle the stuff themselves, but they are still responsible and they get shafted too, so it is just a big mess with no solution on the horizon. Billions of dollars and billions of items ship this way.

I’m testing them right now to see if I will ever order from them again. They shipped out two SK68’s to me on Nov. 29 so $3.98 will determine if I ever use them again. :slight_smile: To be fair, they did take good care of me after I received a fake S2+ and had two missing orders.

Nah, I got a UF number for mine. Even the picture they are supposed to show of the package before it ships doesn’t show up on the website. Which is odd because it shows up for my other packages. Myib nor 17track can find the tracking information.

Well, the test didn’t go so well and I’m not even gonna bother with the 4 bucks.

IB has worked great for me. Tracking actually updates, takes 11-15 days depending on how slow USPS is here.

The Sweden post option took 5 weeks……

So I follow up with another order (Ganzo knife) and choose same Priority Direct mail and this order is not trackable by International Bridge as last order (D80 SE) was. The tracking number for this knife order is given, but there is no way to track it. Even on GB website tracking shows as “undefined”.

So WTH did I pay the extra postal fee for. Seems like a rip to me. This knife order was placed on Feb 20 shipped out on Feb 22. So I guess I’ll see what happens from here.

Maybe the 20 digit tracking number I got that begins with a “7” will be trackable soon in US? I’m guessing so. But last order through International Bridge seems far superior to this guessing game.

Again, maybe it is because the order is a knife? Dunno. :-/

Yeah I guess just wait. The default free shipping from them is pretty damn slow and never updates tracking. International Bridge is the fastest shipping I’ve had from China in recent months.

I have a couple recent orders with tracking available from http://www.yuntrack.com
HTH

Well, don’t know why I paid the extra tracking charges on this last order “:”Quickest and most reliable Gearbest shipping method right now: America Line / IB - #31 by Streamer
Knife arrived couple days ago. No tracking updates whatsoever save for the shipped notice. I think GB’s extra tracking fee of @$1.30 is a money maker for them and a placebo for the buyers. :-/

I notice your packages, which are being delivered to FL, are shipped from China through KY. That makes some sense. My package, which is coming to NY, was supposedly shipped to San Francisco- that makes NO SENSE. It also makes no sense that packages come into this country, then go to IB’s “warehouse,” where they sit, sometimes for days, instead of immediately being sent out for delivery. Finally, most annoying, IB’s tracking is way behind, so it doesn’t tell me when I will get my package- which is already 4 days late- it only tells me where it’s been. If you consider that to be great shipping, fine. Maybe your frequent use of their service is getting a higher level of service, in which case, please share your secret. But for the rest of us, IB has been awful.

Packages will go where USPS decides they can be processed best, most times for those of us on the East coast that will be NY, but San Francisco is not always a bad thing. I have had packages get processed very quickly through there in the past. Have also had some sit there a few days.
My last package sat in AL for a week, but hey guess what? The calendar says it is late December, so we need to expect delays on overseas shipments.
Just wait until the China New year happens. Then you will be happy when you get a package in a 5 week time frame. :slight_smile:

Now, back to your concern with IB and it’s tracking, etc.
Once the package has come into USA and gone through customs, it will get a USPS tracking #.
When you use the IB tracking, look over on the left side and there you will see the USPS tracking number.

From that point on, just track through USPS, much better updates when it is getting nearer to your destination.

HTH
Merry Christmas
Keith

Lately GearBest shipping has been extremely good for me.

Five orders since November 13.
Two came DHL and each arrived in four days. This was free shipping.
The other three arrived in in 10 - 12 days. They were sent either USA Express or USA Priority.

Thank you GearBest…… :+1:

:slight_smile:

USPS isn’t deciding any of this- and shouldn’t be involved. When customers pay for expedited shipping & the websites say that is via UPS, then the USPS shouldn’t be involved. And they weren’t. It was IB, not the USPS, who sent the package to San Francisco instead of the East Coast. Now it’s IB who is holding my package- which is supposed to be delivered expedited in 3-5 days- for days in a warehouse “waiting for a flight.” That’s ridiculous! Packages should fly right out. And it’s IB who is choosing to hand my package over to the USPS instead of to a package specialist like UPS. These are all choices that were avoidable mistakes. And I will not be grateful for a 5-week delivery, as I will never use this company again. I simply will not order from anyone who ships via IB. They clearly don’t understand the words expedited shipping. And you, clearly, are working for them.

Hmmmmm…. who are you talking to & who are you working for??

Well... Now that our secret identities have been revealed:

Hi dear, please email your inquires to our support department, our staff will handle all of your concerns:

cs@gearbest.com

Please kindly include your order number,

Best regards

Below is the tracking of my latest order from GearBest. And yeah it was delivered by the USPS by way of International Bridge (IB). While many of my previous orders received through ‘IB’ shipping have indeed sat around their warehouse several days before moving, the last few orders; this one included: have not sat around at all in their warehouse.
As can be seen below the package hit the ‘IB’ warehouse on 2016-12-20 at 11:04:28 and left the ‘IB’ warehouse on 2016-12-20 at 11:57:22

So in the “big scheme of things” this package was in the ‘IB’ warehouse for a grand total of 52 minutes & 54 seconds before it was headed for the USPS in Birmingham, Alabama.

Maybe these last few good delivery time have just been flukes.
Maybe the previous delivery times that were pretty poor were just flukes.

But either way, the last few of mine & the one referenced below; have been pretty darn good. :+1:
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Date Status Location
2016-12-22 11:19:00 Delivered GADSDEN AL 35903
2016-12-22 07:48:00 Scanned at: GADSDEN AL 35903
2016-12-21 19:49:00 Scanned at: BIRMINGHAM AL 35222
2016-12-21 18:22:00 Scanned at: BIRMINGHAM AL 35222
2016-12-21 17:22:00 ACCEPTED AT USPS FACILITY BIRMINGHAM AL 35222
2016-12-20 11:57:22 Departed warehouse HUNSTVILLE AL 35824
2016-12-20 11:04:28 Received at warehouse HUNSTVILLE AL 35824
2016-12-17 05:30:00 Arrived at Customs
2016-12-17 02:30:00 Arrived into the US
2016-12-14 21:09:00 Awaiting International flight-Airline Inspection
2016-12-14 19:58:48 Departed warehouse SHENZHEN GUANGDONG 518048
2016-12-12 15:50:17 Received data SHENZHEN GUANGDONG 518057
2016-12-12 15:50:17 Order Information Received SHENZHEN GUANGDONG 518057

Just received another order from GearBest through IB.
7 days from placing order until I had it in my hand. Pretty darn good…. :+1:

I did my first IB order from GearBest, and I was quite impressed with the speed at which it got out of China - one day to process the order, and four more days to get to their warehouse in Alabama!

Unfortunately, the light has been sitting in Alabama at their warehouse for five days so far.

It should only take a day or two to get to me from Alabama, but they are taking their sweet time in getting it shipped out of their warehouse.