Like all the Chinese online retailers, GearBest.com have a 11/11 sale with some items heavily discounted on the 11th. And of course, there is a catch as these items will have limited stock at the slashed price. They have a 11.11 promo page now up where you can take a look at some of the offers and if you’re lucky even get a discount coupon in advance.
Seems they have a few good deals, for example the MXIII 4k Mini Android 5.1 PC is just $41.11 with coupon GB11MXIII.
The X98 Air 3G for just $49 and Chuwi for $19 but those are in limited quantities
The 11.11 sale page is here.
Ben Whitaker
Never using Gearbest again. Beware the barracuda local agent ripoff.
Order for Cube i7 seemed simple enough … chose expedited shipping.
Customs duty came to $33.67, no problem. Clearly shown in customs paperwork.
Their local shipping agent DPEX added on another $25 in “admin fees” basically doubling the amount. With daily storage fees adding up if you don’t pay fast enough.
Now Gearbest is saying the local agent will destroy the shipment if I don’t pay their admin fees. And Gearbest will not be responsible.
Extortion, simple as that.
A simple order made into an extortion situation.
You’d think I could just pay the tax COD like any other shipper. Not with the new barracuda shipper/destroy your package strategy from Gearbest.
Disappointing.
BBaker
And prob DPEX and Gearbest have some revenue sharing agreement on splitting that “admin fee”.
BBaker
assuming DPEX isn’t actually owned by Gearbest 🙂
Kyriakos
I’m about to cancel my order with gearbest, I got the x98 3g 64gb for 151 euro on the 11th (not that great of an offer but still cheaper than anywhere else). It’s been ‘Processing’ ever since…
Patrik Hudec
So, i got X98 Air 3G for 49 dollars, payed, and now i am waiting for it. Awesome deal.
amal Gumm
I must be doing something wrong on the GearBest website. After guessing the answer to get a code. I go to add the product to the basket and copy/pasted the code to the promotions box. Then clicked on promotion button. Instead of the price going down, it went up 10%. Don’t bother wasting your time.
BBaker
Only the first 5 people get the deal? That’s really f*cking stupid if you ask me. I’m not gonna waste my time clicking on a bunch of shit in the unlikely event I get a deal. Just put the damn things on sale for a lesser amount and make sure you have enough stock so everyone who wants one gets one. geez…
Kyriakos
Its more likely you win the lottery and then buy those items at full price than get a chance to buy them at those insane prices. I guess in China selling at limited quantity prices is a normal thing – it did make me go look, so I guess their marketing tactic works.
Chris G
Agreed, or at least make it 200 units to give people a chance.
Terry Chadban
Chris,
The links above aren’t working for me, looks like a problem with the Google redirect — or maybe just the flaky ‘broadband’ down here. Anyone else having problems with the link?
Terry
Chris G
Should work, at least it does for me. Maybe that Aussie 56k dial up modem you’re using 🙂 (Joking)
Terry Chadban
Not as far off the mark as I would like! The links are working for me now, so it looks like a local DNS server problem.
Still waiting for the National Broadband Network — by the time we get it it will be obsolete again! 🙁
Chris G
Well, I used to have 1mbps here and 0.10mbps as I’m up towards a mountain, painfully slow. I could not even Skype people. But finally 4G popped up here and I’m on that. Maybe that’s an option for you? LTE/4G can and is faster than most ADSL connections.