It’s not just you, bad sellers, like gearbest, lie as standard procedure, claiming the item has shipped before it has actually shipped can help them hide their longer processing times. It’s intended to make it look like gearbest did their part promptly and the extra time it takes is just the postal service’s fault.
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Check out our dealer ratings subforum gearbest is rated AVOID
But as illustrated by this thread, many people are still lured by slightly lower prices and many of them get lucky. But it’s always a bigger gamble with bad sellers.