Reply To: Are 11.11 sales all real?

[Laura]

99% of the offers are fake, the sellers just raise the price a couple of days before the offer and give you the regular price disguised as a bargain.

as for the remaining 1% they are usually very limited quantity, so limited im actually thinking they might as well just be fake.

this morning, i camped gearbest for the $49 X98 Air 3G… i had the coupon code, i spam clicked since a few minutes before the start of the offer (11.11 am UTC), i got it accepted, made the order at the discounted price, and when i clicked to finalize the payment it freaking charged me $214 which is the full *fake* price, higher than what they sell it usually. Needless to say i felt scammed and immediately asked them to cancel the order which fortunately they did after few hours.

So, i was really really fast, i think you just couldn’t be faster than how i did it. it took me like 10 seconds most of which were the site loading because it was obviously swarmed so i dont think a bot or script could be any faster, and even if it was, 99% of them would end up charged a hefty amount like me.