After a week of amazing phone giveaways we can finally announce the GizChina Shop officially open and ready for business.
Over the weekend we held our last two giveaways to celebrate the opening of our new online store. The GizChina Shop is now officially open and ready for business.
Gizchina News of the week
About GizChina Shop
GizChina Shop is ran by our partner to bring Chinese Android phones to GizChina fans and general smartphone fans from around the world. Benefits of the GizChina Shop include a team in China, HongKong and Europe, with a warehouse in the EU to cut down shipping time and costs while offering amazing customer service.
GizChina Shop has its own separate team allowing the rest of us to work on reviews and news, so please direct any questions or comments related to the shop to the shop.gizchina.com subdomain.
So the store is up and running and available for you to browse and purchase from right now! Enjoy!
[ Shop.GizChina.com ]
Weldone….
Some nice prices. I hope it won’t scam as Efox, Antelife or Coolicool. Taking money for out of stock. Or never sending out the pre sell orders
I have never had a problem with any of them, in fact Antelife is my go too when I want a new phone (except for Xiaomi which I get from Honorbuy).
Ye coolicool and efox definitely take money for phones listed as ‘in stock’ when really it’s a pre order and you don’t find that out until you email them… They did that with a UMI Zero I ordered…
And I’m sure either efox or coolicool own Antelife now, they’re all the same email that comes out from them, same promotions and same prices…
They are all owned by a conglomerate, a few other shops too. I never too presales though so I never ran into that problem. I hardy ever buy a phone when it is first released I always wait a few weeks till the community reviews/complaints start to pop up.
So no tablets blarh…
Maybe they will stock the Xiaomi MiPad 2 π
I can’t access!! why??? I’m connecting from Italy…web site gives 2 differents errors: overloaded and “You cannot access this store from your country. We apologize for the inconvenience.”…
will check it
now it works. thanks!
Congratulations on your new endeavour! I know you guys worked really hard on this. Will try to support you as much as I can from here π Good luck to you all!
Andi rulez!
I love the design of the new site and I think I was right about who is behind it. Prices seem pretty reasonable will definitely be buying from it soon. What’s even better is they have all the reviews listed with the phones, that will make it much easier for beginners shopping for a phone. Excellent work Andi!
Best of luck to you and your partners with the new on-line shop. I like the fact that unlike some other European and unscrupulous Chinese re-sellers, you’re not selling garbage liar-spec phones or pre-sale vaporware, only top quality brands!
If you can compete with the larger discount sellers and get listed on price-comparison sites like KiMovil, I have no doubt Ship.GizChina.Com will be a huge success!
http://www.kimovil.com/en/
Will you be offering any discount codes here on GizChina to attract readers to your new shop?
congratulation..add more brands
Congratulations.
@Gizchina:disqus, I left you a message on FB wrt shop.gizchina.com. You might wanna check it.
And when will you have the LeTV Le Max available?
+1 for LeMax π
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Flash Sale when?
Congratulations hope it is a huge success π
Looks nice
Great shop – congrats and best wishes, but one thing: where is Lenovo in your shop?
Nice prices on EU Direct but the shipping is to expensive,I almost belive the store have a parter like Honorbuy store.
Any chance of GBP as a currency in it?
I’ll but it forward π
you might also check some spelling errors and such, just to ensure some credibility and supremacy over those other chinese resellers! π
oh, and if i want to buy from eu warehouse and select the free gift, it automatically deletes the option from eu warehouse and just gives me “DHL from China”. is it cause the gift is in china and can’t be shipped from eu so it automatically assumes you get everything from china?
Great work Andi but in my opinion the shipping is too expensive.
please be cheap !
also please do free shipping to Pakistan !
Endorsed Highly!
π
still a small choice of direct EU stock like other sites! so still a chance to pay a lot for custom taxes and delays!
I want to see more brands and newer phones in EU stock in the future!
+ if I choose china registered airmail (17β¬) it stays on 29β¬ delivery cost
Weldone….
Congratulations
Some nice prices. I hope it won’t scam as Efox, Antelife or Coolicool. Taking money for out of stock. Or never sending out the pre sell orders
I have never had a problem with any of them, in fact Antelife is my go too when I want a new phone (except for Xiaomi which I get from Honorbuy).
Ye coolicool and efox definitely take money for phones listed as ‘in stock’ when really it’s a pre order and you don’t find that out until you email them… They did that with a UMI Zero I ordered…
And I’m sure either efox or coolicool own Antelife now, they’re all the same email that comes out from them, same promotions and same prices…
They are all owned by a conglomerate, a few other shops too. I never too presales though so I never ran into that problem. I hardy ever buy a phone when it is first released I always wait a few weeks till the community reviews/complaints start to pop up.
Congratulations. Prizes seem reasonable, but only l Xiaomi, Meizu, Opo and Oppo? Looks like you just want the reknown “premium”-brands in your store so you don’t have to worry about quality. But those brands are exactly those i’ll probably never buy cause i don’t have the money for it.
Will there be other brands like Bluboo, Ecoo, Ulefone, Jiayu, THL, Zopo, Cubot, Siswoo, Lenovo or some lower budget phones?
Also please don’t be a “partner” of honorbuy as i got ripped of once by them.
We plan to add Ulefone and Zopo soon. I have also suggested JiaYu.
Lenovo’s budget K3 Note seems to be selling like hotcakes, so this maybe something to keep an eye on.
Coolpad and Vivo are definitely strong brands too, to be considered.
Looking forward to the Jiayu S4 π
me too. can’t wait much longer for the S4. same goes for the Bluboo xTouch. Vivo is good but pretty expensive. i’m really hoping to see some Lenovo at gizchina shop in the future. π
hear us, andy! π
The Coolpad F2 has been enjoying CM12.1, and Coolpad is a very good reputation in China, so will be good to see which future phones they bring out.
Wow, quick answer, thanks. Well, never heard anything bad about Ulefone and Jiayu. Zopo seems to be out of sight in recent times. Will you get some cheaper phones too? Especially Siswoo as they have 2 European Support Centers? I’m thinking of the new A-line and the C-line which prove to be quite good here with the C50 and C55.
I’d also love to see Bluboo (especially the new xTouch… XD) and Lenovo, can’t go wrong with those two either, right? π
Either way, nice shop with fair prices and a european warehouse. I like! Now you just need some more phones (especially in your eu warehouse, as it’s a huge market and most eu-warehouses from other shops lack either new phones or better phones) and i’ll be only buying from you from now on. Looking forward to what’s coming.
just noticed that it indeed is honorbuy as nearly all phones and prices and options are exactly the same.
do you just partner with them concerning logistics and storage? can’t you sell your own phones there and just use the existing parameters like logistics and storage?
cause right now i see no reason to buy from you when it is exactly the same as honorbuy. it also seems that some phones are a bit cheaper from gizchinas shop, but the shipment is a bit more expensive. so in the end it is the same.
is it your (as in gizchinas) support or is it honorbuys?
i would SO hope you dissociate yourself a bit more from honorbuy and for example offer YOUR selection of phones and not just clone theirs.
Never heard much about Siswoo, interesting they have 2 European Support Centres though.
they are fairly new. you can check out the reviews here for the C50 Longbow and Cooper i7. Pretty good phones for their first ones. sadly the i7 has a shitty camera and battery and the C50 would need 2gb of ram, but that aside… they already have a spanish support/repair center and are working at a german one at the moment.
Interesting.
Dont add ZOPO, if u dt want to receive phones to repair.. with unsatisfacted clients… just a friendly opinion.
U should work with only good and solid firms… Talk with jtgeek ( GLG ) , he could tell u how shitty the bad phones can be…
So no tablets blarh…
Maybe they will stock the Xiaomi MiPad 2 π
I can’t access!! why??? I’m connecting from Italy…web site gives 2 differents errors: overloaded and “You cannot access this store from your country. We apologize for the inconvenience.”…
will check it
now it works. thanks!
Congratulations on your new endeavour! I know you guys worked really hard on this. Will try to support you as much as I can from here π Good luck to you all!
Andi rulez!
Shop is already down. Tells me it is overloaded.
I’m getting that on a desktop and it says I can’t access it from my country. I have no problem connecting on my phone though. Strange.
the shop saw insane traffic should be fixed now π
I’m not surprised, some great prices! Thanks Andi!
I love the design of the new site and I think I was right about who is behind it. Prices seem pretty reasonable will definitely be buying from it soon. What’s even better is they have all the reviews listed with the phones, that will make it much easier for beginners shopping for a phone. Excellent work Andi!
Best of luck to you and your partners with the new on-line shop. I like the fact that unlike some other European and unscrupulous Chinese re-sellers, you’re not selling garbage liar-spec phones or pre-sale vaporware, only top quality brands!
If you can compete with the larger discount sellers and get listed on price-comparison sites like KiMovil, I have no doubt Ship.GizChina.Com will be a huge success!
http://www.kimovil.com/en/
Will you be offering any discount codes here on GizChina to attract readers to your new shop?
congratulation..add more brands
Congratulations.
@Gizchina:disqus, I left you a message on FB wrt shop.gizchina.com. You might wanna check it.
And when will you have the LeTV Le Max available?
+1 for LeMax π
for Romania…from EU Warehouse Express…42.00 $ ?? and from China with Registered Air Mail at 19 $ ??
good joke…you are crazy ?? prices are very good but delivery cost is insane.
I agree, the shipping cost is too high! And there should be cheaper options for Europe (not necessarily Express – slower, but cheaper would be good, too!).
there are some issues with the system which we will fix
This looks to me like ibuygou. I think they became parteners.
It is Honorbuy (formerly Xioamishop). I bought all my Xiaomi phones from them in the past and they were very good. Always include free gifts with most orders too (usually a case and screen protector).
I was just about to mention that gizshop look just about the same as honorbuy π
If you go to the shipping information it mentions Xiaomishop in one of the blurbs. That is Honorbuys old name.
Good catch Sherlock
I had a feeling it was either them or Oppo Mart all along.
what should we do to claim the prize? just wait or you contacted them already?
Send me an email balcobomber25@yahoo.com Ill tell you what to do.
and I guess what Andi means when he mentions that they are not behind the shop but collaborating is that some smart people, including Andi figured out how nice would be to use the popularity of gizchina to sell more phones just because there is gizchina in the name of the shop. Well to @Gizchina:disqus I hope you negotiated good margins whit honorbuy π At the end of the day its all about money and I donβt think that in a negative manner π
What experience you have with shipping to RO from honorbuy or ibuygou? Are you charged customs in Romania?
Never bought from them. For the past few months you are lucky if a package skips customs.
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Flash Sale when?
Congratulations hope it is a huge success π
Looks nice
Great shop – congrats and best wishes, but one thing: where is Lenovo in your shop?
Any chance of GBP as a currency in it?
I’ll but it forward π
you might also check some spelling errors and such, just to ensure some credibility and supremacy over those other chinese resellers! π
oh, and if i want to buy from eu warehouse and select the free gift, it automatically deletes the option from eu warehouse and just gives me “DHL from China”. is it cause the gift is in china and can’t be shipped from eu so it automatically assumes you get everything from china?
Why would you price the OnePlus One at 315 euro, which is probably without the delivery costs, when you can buy it for 300 on the original website? π
maybe because it is sold out on the official website and harder to get there. π
Right… π I thought they somehow managed with stock π
It’s near impossible to actually buy it from the original website, it is consistently sold out. If you can it’s always better to buy direct from the brand. But you have to realize a reseller needs to make a profit to stay in business. They can’t sell a phone for the same price as the manufacturer or they will lose money on every sale.
That is correct! I didn’t know the situation with OPO was like this π
The situation has been like this since OPO launched. They create artificial demand shortages (not the only ones to do this) for two reasons. 1. They wait for the price of the parts to drop before making a significant number of phones. They will make a few thousand between then to make it look like they are trying and to keep demand up. 2. It drives customers to the second hand market where the prices are inflated. How do you think all those resellers always have sufficient stock during “manufacturing shortages”? It’s a collusion at it’s finest, OPO sells X amount of units to the reseller at a higher cost, customers pay 1.5-3x more for the same phone and everyone makes money off it.
Do you know if honorbuy ships to the US?
They do. By DHL it usually takes anywhere from 3-5 days, by regular post mail the earliest I have received something was 7 days but normal time is around 14 days.
Umi Zero 2 should be interesting especially with the 2nd e ink display, I believe its launching September 1st, should be one to hit the store.
Great work Andi but in my opinion the shipping is too expensive.
please be cheap !
also please do free shipping to Pakistan !
Endorsed Highly!
π
still a small choice of direct EU stock like other sites! so still a chance to pay a lot for custom taxes and delays!
I want to see more brands and newer phones in EU stock in the future!
+ if I choose china registered airmail (17β¬) it stays on 29β¬ delivery cost
Congratulations
Congratulations. Prizes seem reasonable, but only l Xiaomi, Meizu, Opo and Oppo? Looks like you just want the reknown “premium”-brands in your store so you don’t have to worry about quality. But those brands are exactly those i’ll probably never buy cause i don’t have the money for it.
Will there be other brands like Bluboo, Ecoo, Ulefone, Jiayu, THL, Zopo, Cubot, Siswoo, Lenovo or some lower budget phones?
Also please don’t be a “partner” of honorbuy as i got ripped of once by them.
We plan to add Ulefone and Zopo soon. I have also suggested JiaYu.
Lenovo’s budget K3 Note seems to be selling like hotcakes, so this maybe something to keep an eye on.
Coolpad and Vivo are definitely strong brands too, to be considered.
Looking forward to the Jiayu S4 π
Wow, quick answer, thanks. Well, never heard anything bad about Ulefone and Jiayu. Zopo seems to be out of sight in recent times. Will you get some cheaper phones too? Especially Siswoo as they have 2 European Support Centers? I’m thinking of the new A-line and the C-line which prove to be quite good here with the C50 and C55.
I’d also love to see Bluboo (especially the new xTouch… XD) and Lenovo, can’t go wrong with those two either, right? π
Either way, nice shop with fair prices and a european warehouse. I like! Now you just need some more phones (especially in your eu warehouse, as it’s a huge market and most eu-warehouses from other shops lack either new phones or better phones) and i’ll be only buying from you from now on. Looking forward to what’s coming.
just noticed that it indeed is honorbuy as nearly all phones and prices and options are exactly the same.
do you just partner with them concerning logistics and storage? can’t you sell your own phones there and just use the existing parameters like logistics and storage?
cause right now i see no reason to buy from you when it is exactly the same as honorbuy. it also seems that some phones are a bit cheaper from gizchinas shop, but the shipment is a bit more expensive. so in the end it is the same.
is it your (as in gizchinas) support or is it honorbuys?
i would SO hope you dissociate yourself a bit more from honorbuy and for example offer YOUR selection of phones and not just clone theirs.
Never heard much about Siswoo, interesting they have 2 European Support Centres though.
they are fairly new. you can check out the reviews here for the C50 Longbow and Cooper i7. Pretty good phones for their first ones. sadly the i7 has a shitty camera and battery and the C50 would need 2gb of ram, but that aside… they already have a spanish support/repair center and are working at a german one at the moment.
me too. can’t wait much longer for the S4. same goes for the Bluboo xTouch. Vivo is good but pretty expensive. i’m really hoping to see some Lenovo at gizchina shop in the future. π
hear us, andy! π
Interesting.
The Coolpad F2 has been enjoying CM12.1, and Coolpad is a very good reputation in China, so will be good to see which future phones they bring out.
Dont add ZOPO, if u dt want to receive phones to repair.. with unsatisfacted clients… just a friendly opinion.
U should work with only good and solid firms… Talk with jtgeek ( GLG ) , he could tell u how shitty the bad phones can be…
Shop is already down. Tells me it is overloaded.
I’m getting that on a desktop and it says I can’t access it from my country. I have no problem connecting on my phone though. Strange.
the shop saw insane traffic should be fixed now π
I’m not surprised, some great prices! Thanks Andi!
for Romania…from EU Warehouse Express…42.00 $ ?? and from China with Registered Air Mail at 19 $ ??
good joke…you are crazy ?? prices are very good but delivery cost is insane.
I agree, the shipping cost is too high! And there should be cheaper options for Europe (not necessarily Express – slower, but cheaper would be good, too!).
there are some issues with the system which we will fix
This looks to me like ibuygou. I think they became parteners.
It is Honorbuy (formerly Xioamishop). I bought all my Xiaomi phones from them in the past and they were very good. Always include free gifts with most orders too (usually a case and screen protector).
I was just about to mention that gizshop look just about the same as honorbuy π
and I guess what Andi means when he mentions that they are not behind the shop but collaborating is that some smart people, including Andi figured out how nice would be to use the popularity of gizchina to sell more phones just because there is gizchina in the name of the shop. Well to @Gizchina:disqus I hope you negotiated good margins whit honorbuy π At the end of the day its all about money and I donβt think that in a negative manner π
If you go to the shipping information it mentions Xiaomishop in one of the blurbs. That is Honorbuys old name.
Good catch Sherlock
I had a feeling it was either them or Oppo Mart all along.
what should we do to claim the prize? just wait or you contacted them already?
Send me an email balcobomber25@yahoo.com Ill tell you what to do.
What experience you have with shipping to RO from honorbuy or ibuygou? Are you charged customs in Romania?
Never bought from them. For the past few months you are lucky if a package skips customs.
Why would you price the OnePlus One at 315 euro, which is probably without the delivery costs, when you can buy it for 300 on the original website? π
maybe because it is sold out on the official website and harder to get there. π
It’s near impossible to actually buy it from the original website, it is consistently sold out. If you can it’s always better to buy direct from the brand. But you have to realize a reseller needs to make a profit to stay in business. They can’t sell a phone for the same price as the manufacturer or they will lose money on every sale.
That is correct! I didn’t know the situation with OPO was like this π
Right… π I thought they somehow managed with stock π
The situation has been like this since OPO launched. They create artificial demand shortages (not the only ones to do this) for two reasons. 1. They wait for the price of the parts to drop before making a significant number of phones. They will make a few thousand between then to make it look like they are trying and to keep demand up. 2. It drives customers to the second hand market where the prices are inflated. How do you think all those resellers always have sufficient stock during “manufacturing shortages”? It’s a collusion at it’s finest, OPO sells X amount of units to the reseller at a higher cost, customers pay 1.5-3x more for the same phone and everyone makes money off it.
Do you know if honorbuy ships to the US?
They do. By DHL it usually takes anywhere from 3-5 days, by regular post mail the earliest I have received something was 7 days but normal time is around 14 days.
Umi Zero 2 should be interesting especially with the 2nd e ink display, I believe its launching September 1st, should be one to hit the store.
So far i have only seen the pricey brands, i hope you get the budget ones aswell, some Mlais and ulefones among others wouldnt hurt.
@Gizchina:disqus Would be nice if your partners would offer Lenovo brand, not all of the lineup of course but K3 Note should help you whit boosting sales π
Sold out on first day?
So far i have only seen the pricey brands, i hope you get the budget ones aswell, some Mlais and ulefones among others wouldnt hurt.
@Gizchina:disqus Would be nice if your partners would offer Lenovo brand, not all of the lineup of course but K3 Note should help you whit boosting sales π
Sold out on first day?
Damn thats a nice website. Wich soft are you guys running?
Damn thats a nice website. Wich soft are you guys running?
Huawei still not listed, but mentioned in the “about” section. About shipping to EU: I suppose you should work out something like what Chigon did. High import tax is a huge let down for EU custormers.
Huawei still not listed, but mentioned in the “about” section. About shipping to EU: I suppose you should work out something like what Chigon did. High import tax is a huge let down for EU custormers.
“No carrier has been made available for this selection.”
“No carrier has been made available for this selection.”
hello andy,..i wanna know if your shop will sell the UMI IRON,…i sent an inquiry at the contact us page of the gizchina shop ,..i have not recieved any reply yet
hello andy,..i wanna know if your shop will sell the UMI IRON,…i sent an inquiry at the contact us page of the gizchina shop ,..i have not recieved any reply yet
Hello Andi, I would include a direct link to Gizchina.com in the phones/gadgets description if there is a review here. Something like this: The Superphone of the day received 9.9 from Gizchina reviewer Andi. Check out the full review (link)! Sure, I would not put that link to the bottom of the page.
Hello Andi, I would include a direct link to
in the phones/gadgets description if there is a review here. Something like this: The Superphone of the day received 9.9 from Gizchina reviewer Andi. Check out the full review (link)! Sure, I would not put that link to the bottom of the page.
I would love to buy something but it keeps telling me that “No carrier has been made available for this selection” when I am selecting shipping. I live in Canada so I’m pretty sure it ships there.
I would love to buy something but it keeps telling me that “No carrier has been made available for this selection” when I am selecting shipping. I live in Canada so I’m pretty sure it ships there.
i bought a leeco le 2 silver, i’ll see how fast they will ship its 18/07 π
and asked if they have it in stock to be sure.. :O
i bought the fast way.
Ill keep you guys in touch ^^
i bought a leeco le 2 silver, i’ll see how fast they will ship its 18/07 π
and asked if they have it in stock to be sure.. :O
i bought the fast way.
Ill keep you guys in touch ^^
Ok so i bought it litterally 2 days ago, and now today at 10 AM in the morning i got my phone true DHL with europe shipment.
I was stunned how fast it got delivered. from italy to belgium it took only 1 day and the next day i got it delivered. everything was well packed.
i surtenly will buy again from this website
Ok so i bought it litterally 2 days ago, and now today at 10 AM in the morning i got my phone true DHL with europe shipment.
I was stunned how fast it got delivered. from italy to belgium it took only 1 day and the next day i got it delivered. everything was well packed.
i surtenly will buy again from this website
Ok so i bought it litterally 2 days ago, and now today at 10 AM in the morning i got my phone true DHL with europe shipment.
I was stunned how fast it got delivered. from italy to belgium it took only 1 day and the next day i got it delivered. everything was well packed.
i surtenly will buy again from this website