I want to offer my 2 cents, I placed my order 2 days before the 11.11 sale. As plenty of people have said they were pushing back the shipping dates on a constant basis, from nov 15-16, it went to nov 20-25, then dec 1-3.
I pestered them like 6 times and I was angry since they had the posting during the black friday sale too as if they had plenty in stock. So after a couple of times they acceded to give me back my money and I said no willing to wait a few days more. The next time I talked to them they offered their apologies and made clear they would offer a compensation next time (some sort of voucher or discount I guess). I checked my order yesterday and was packaged, today it was shipped out.
First time buying a tablet and getting it from gearbest, it surely left a bad taste in my mouth, hopefully Ill get it in one piece and working properly.