Renrew E.

On more than one occasion, I've been lured into giving money in advance to this company, when they didn't even have the item in stock (although their webpage *always* lists items as purchasable, never giving users any warnings as to stock status, etc...)

I had opened a ticket in their system, and they replied by saying my item was "backordered" - upon my questioning about it never been advertised as such in its page, they replied:
"Stock and availability shown on our site is for your reference only." - THIS IS BULL$#*!!
You either place ACTUAL stock availability info or you REMOVE IT. You are scammers who use the lowest techniques to lure customers into giving you money.

I am fed up with this bad practice. On top of this BS, these are the options they offered me:
- "Option 1: Wait a little longer." (SERIOUSLY?)
- "Option 2: Exchange for another item of my choice." - now, if I had wanted another item, would I have not picked... erm... ANOTHER ITEM? And what if that item was also in "backorder"?

None of the options were satisfying, I wanted my money back, and to get them to do it, I had to exchange "a few" more messages with them until they finally bulged and refunded me.

Gearbest, from this moment on, you are in my $#*!list. You are among the worst scamming websites I have ever seen. Good bye.
Welcome Aliexpress, Banggood, DX, etc, etc. You do not deserve to be a marketplace. I hope you go out of business soon.