You guys think it's bad when your packages bounce around a few states. Ha! Mine is bouncing across the Pacific Ocean. I got a phone message saying it'll be delivered tomorrow. I'm not as optimistic.
Must have had a return ticket
Earning frequent flyer miles?
I had a guy send me a package via DHL from England. DHL insisted that I had to give them my birth certificate, social security card, and three years of tax returns before they would deliver it. I told them to go screw a monkey with AIDS and to return the package to the sender. They did (hopefully both). He re-sent it ParcelFarce and it got here two days later. Didn’t even have to sign for it ($10,000 item).
And it was definitely DHL… called the number on their web site which matched that it on an older DHL label.
Ugh, if they pull that with me, I'll file a claim with Amazon and pay more with a vendor that's in the United States. I should have done that from the beginning, but I tried saving a few dollars. This is actually a video camera, but it'll probably be mostly used for flashlight reviews if my computer can handle it.
That one looks like someone was messing around 
I’ve had good experience with DHL. It’s Fedex. The guy just leaves stuff in the bushes every time
Hope you get a nice big credit from DHL for that BS.
Now it's back in Los Angeles, and I think it's past customs. They must use the time scanned at their location for their tracking. It's the only way I can explain the time stamps. It will have travelled over 20 thousand miles to get to me.
Your item didn’t actually go to LA and Hong Kong and back to LA again. Clearance processing is just them submitting customs clearance ahead to the destination.
Because he knows “iits no gude” So the throws it in the booshes…
Heheh right right 
Does anyone have any ideas of what is happening to my package from Gearbest?
I got another call this morning confirming delivery today, but the tracking info still says the package hasn't left customs.
My guess is your item was thought to have been loaded into a specific container, and either that container didn’t make it on the airplane on the first try, or your package never actually got in the container. Intermediate package scans on DHL, UPS and Fedex are in usually scans of the container the package is in, and since the inventory of the container is supposed to be known, a scan of the container produces a scan for all of the packages in the container.
Things go south in a hurry when the container is lost (I had a Fedex shipment lost for 3 months, it took Fedex almost a month to figure out it wasn’t just my package missing, it was every package in the container. There is effort on the part of courier companies to look for lost packages in tracking. I.E. a Fedex package should track no less often than every other day. If you haven’t seen it in more than 48 hours, it has been lost or mishandled.
For the record DHL stands for Documents Hopelessly Lost…
Your package might not have been logged out of the container in LA, so when the container was next scanned in HK, the system thought your package was in HK when it was in LA. The next time the package itself went through a scanner in LA the system reacquired it's correct location.
Just a theory, but seems to fit the timeline.
^this^
Good track!
I think it's safe to say it's not getting delivered today, but there's no new phone messages or tracking info.
The tracking info posted last time still hasn't changed.