As the phone market saturates so does is the reseller community surrounding them, and acquisitions like the one between Efox and Antelife are going to become more common.
According to news in China, online reseller Efox (or at least the company behind the Efox called Aukey) brand, have bought Antelife and are currently restructuring the two companies.
Update: We will be interviewing Aukey bosses to see how they plan to improve Antelife. If you have questions please let us know and we will try to get them answered.
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Efox are generally known in Germany as the main reseller of Chinese phones, but the company also has an English site (Coolicool) that deals with other markets. The acquisition of Antelife should strengthen Efox’s position in Spain, where the company claimed to have a warehouse located.
News of the acquisition is only available in Chinese for now, but hopefully Efox will eventually make some official comment about the news soon.
So what does this mean for Antelife customers? Well we have heard reports of some Antelife customers waiting on phones and other electronics to be shipped, we don’t know if this buy out news is related to shipping delays or not, but hope it all gets cleared up soon.
Hmm, I ordered a Redmi Note on December 1st at Antelife and it is still not shipped! What should I do?
You should contact them, it’s taking too long. I ordered my Xiaomi Note from to2c on November 29th, they shipped it on December 4th – and I am already holding it in my hands.
I already e-mailed them twice. The second time I got a reply (after a few days) and they told me they were very busy and did not have enough in stock. They asked me to wait a few more days. That was 6 days ago…
This “we didn’t have enough” excuse is crazy. I’d get my money back and order from someone else.
Their exact words were “I am really sorry for the delay. now our stock cannot cover all the orders, as the phone is hot sale. and we are restocking it these days.
it will come in stock later. would you please kindly wait for it several days?
And I already marked urgent on your order. the warehouse will send the order at great priority.”
I’ve e-mailed them again today. If I don’t get a satisfactory response I’m going to try to get my money back…
Good luck and keep us updated
Standart scamming of Antelife. My order been marked as Urgent to. Almost month and no phone, no refund.
Did you get your phone in the meantime?
Yes, I received it on December 30th. It took them almost a month to ship it.
Finally, nice to hear that 🙂
By the way, I have to say, they even gave me 30 dollars back plus a 20 dollars coupon because I paid extra for customs insurance with my order (I unfortunately had to pay about 50 dollars when the phone was delivered to my door). I already received the money in my Paypal account (yesterday) and the coupon. So, after all, I’m still happy with Antelife, even though it took them a very long time to ship my phone.
Now, these are some great news! 🙂 Well, that’s the least thing they could have done after letting you wait for so long 🙂 Nice!
Hello, please tell us the Order No. we will help you to deal with the problem. Thanks
The order no. is 800064419
Get your money back mate.
It has finally been shipped a few days ago and it has already arrived in my home country The Netherlands 🙂 So I’m glad I had the patience to wait a little longer… But it wasn’t a very good experience, I have to say…
Hmm, I ordered a Redmi Note on December 1st at Antelife and it is still not shipped! What should I do?
You should contact them, it’s taking too long. I ordered my Xiaomi Note from to2c on November 29th, they shipped it on December 4th – and I am already holding it in my hands.
I already e-mailed them twice. The second time I got a reply (after a few days) and they told me they were very busy and did not have enough in stock. They asked me to wait a few more days. That was 6 days ago…
This “we didn’t have enough” excuse is crazy. I’d get my money back and order from someone else.
Their exact words were “I am really sorry for the delay. now our stock cannot cover all the orders, as the phone is hot sale. and we are restocking it these days.
it will come in stock later. would you please kindly wait for it several days?
And I already marked urgent on your order. the warehouse will send the order at great priority.”
I’ve e-mailed them again today. If I don’t get a satisfactory response I’m going to try to get my money back…
Hello, please tell us the Order No. we will help you to deal with the problem. Thanks
The order no. is 800064419
Good luck and keep us updated
Standart scamming of Antelife. My order been marked as Urgent to. Almost month and no phone, no refund.
Get your money back mate.
It has finally been shipped a few days ago and it has already arrived in my home country The Netherlands 🙂 So I’m glad I had the patience to wait a little longer… But it wasn’t a very good experience, I have to say…
Did you get your phone in the meantime?
Yes, I received it on December 30th. It took them almost a month to ship it.
Finally, nice to hear that 🙂
By the way, I have to say, they even gave me 30 dollars back plus a 20 dollars coupon because I paid extra for customs insurance with my order (I unfortunately had to pay about 50 dollars when the phone was delivered to my door). I already received the money in my Paypal account (yesterday) and the coupon. So, after all, I’m still happy with Antelife, even though it took them a very long time to ship my phone.
Now, these are some great news! 🙂 Well, that’s the least thing they could have done after letting you wait for so long 🙂 Nice!
I heared antelife has been sold for $1600?:0
What! so cheap!
Sorry for the typo, it’s $1,600,000…
This is a HUGE difference ;).
I heared antelife has been sold for $1600?:0
What! so cheap!
Sorry for the typo, it’s $1,600,000…
This is a HUGE difference ;).
Nice story. Just said it’s efox or antelife told you guys to post the news, we knew it. I hate marketing.
Actually it wasn’t and Antelife are really pissed we posted this 😀
We will be interviewing Aukey bosses to see how they plan to improve Antelife. If you have questions please let us know and we will try to get them answered.
Come on Andi, sit tight and make reviews/ posts, we do not want to hear anything about them. Wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!
Nice story. Just said it’s efox or antelife told you guys to post the news, we knew it. I hate marketing.
Actually it wasn’t and Antelife are really pissed we posted this 😀
We will be interviewing Aukey bosses to see how they plan to improve Antelife. If you have questions please let us know and we will try to get them answered.
Come on Andi, sit tight and make reviews/ posts, we do not want to hear anything about them. Wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!
Ordered my umi zero end of november from antelife.
Cant log into account so i messaged them about it, they responded with the same message as you read below this post.(hot sale, not enough)
They said it should be shipped in 2 days.
8 days later i still dont have my phone, i know this can be because of the holidays so its understandable.
I will update if i dont forget.
Ordered my umi zero end of november from antelife.
Cant log into account so i messaged them about it, they responded with the same message as you read below this post.(hot sale, not enough)
They said it should be shipped in 2 days.
8 days later i still dont have my phone, i know this can be because of the holidays so its understandable.
I will update if i dont forget.
My order has finally been shipped yesterday! Maybe my post here helped! Thanks! With a little luck I will have my Redmi Note before the end of the year (I chose DHL shipping) 🙂
My order has finally been shipped yesterday! Maybe my post here helped! Thanks! With a little luck I will have my Redmi Note before the end of the year (I chose DHL shipping) 🙂
this say me one worker of antelife when i asked for this note:
There is a misunderstanding about this article. Efox hasn’t bought Antelife. Efox is one of on-line store of Aukey. Antelife is still there. Aukey and Antelife are the parters now. On the one hand, Aukey provides a strong financial and team support for Aantelife and their superior resources of the German market; On the other hand, Antelife also bring the accumulation of our rich supply chain resources at the mobile phone categories and the superiority of Spanish market. Both parties will integrate their superior resources to Spain, Germany and other European-based market.
this say me one worker of antelife when i asked for this note:
There is a misunderstanding about this article. Efox hasn’t bought Antelife. Efox is one of on-line store of Aukey. Antelife is still there. Aukey and Antelife are the parters now. On the one hand, Aukey provides a strong financial and team support for Aantelife and their superior resources of the German market; On the other hand, Antelife also bring the accumulation of our rich supply chain resources at the mobile phone categories and the superiority of Spanish market. Both parties will integrate their superior resources to Spain, Germany and other European-based market.
This is really bad.
Ordered an UMi Zero on 28-10 and got nothing up till now. Kept sending them polite e-mails and also got the standard nonsense about the ‘hot sale’ and the refund in 2 days, etc etc.
Then all of a sudden they promised me free shipping with DHL! WOW
After another 2 weeks (!!) they shipped out with DHL. But the tracking code of the DHL is not a real code. I called DHL and they told me the tracking code is not a real one.
The e-mail address I used to contact Antelife is being bounced now.
‘Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server
for the recipient domain 163.com by 163mx03.mxmail.netease.com.
[119.9.64.9].’
PayPal can’t do anything, Antelife doesn’t respond to me anymore (I never was angry) and I still have no phone.
This is really bad.
Ordered an UMi Zero on 28-10 and got nothing up till now. Kept sending them polite e-mails and also got the standard nonsense about the ‘hot sale’ and the refund in 2 days, etc etc.
Then all of a sudden they promised me free shipping with DHL! WOW
After another 2 weeks (!!) they shipped out with DHL. But the tracking code of the DHL is not a real code. I called DHL and they told me the tracking code is not a real one.
The e-mail address I used to contact Antelife is being bounced now.
‘Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server
for the recipient domain
by 163mx03.mxmail.netease.com.
[119.9.64.9].’
PayPal can’t do anything, Antelife doesn’t respond to me anymore (I never was angry) and I still have no phone.
DONT BUY THERE!
Still waiting for months for the refund of a returned Lenovo, which already arrived DOA. Nothing happed.
Chekc the rating. This is not a trustful store!
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/antelife
DONT BUY THERE!
Still waiting for months for the refund of a returned Lenovo, which already arrived DOA. Nothing happed.
Chekc the rating. This is not a trustful store!
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/antelife