Regular customers of the Gearbest store know that the Gearbest store has GB points (in the Russian localized version they are called “points”) by applying which you can significantly (up to 30%) reduce the cost of the order.
You can read about how to get and use points on Gearbest here (there's even a typo there).
But you won’t be able to accumulate points forever in the Gearbest store, because... On March 31, 2017, all GB points received before October 31, 2016 will expire.
This is what they wrote in the newsletter http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi? id=42:22521:2540#2540 :
We want to send an email to all our amazing customers about our GB Points policy: ALL UNUSED GB Points earned before OCT 31, 2016 will AUTOMATICALLY EXPIRE and reset to ZERO on MAR 31, 2017.
How to save points accumulated in Gearbest?
Option #0 - do nothing
Option #1 - Spend GB points
Option number 2 - Freeze existing points. We add an expensive product to the cart, for example the same Xiaomi Air 12, and increase the quantity.
Then we proceed to checkout and see that we have added another payment method, namely Wire Transfer
It's a bank transfer, but that doesn't matter to us. There is no need to choose order insurance or use money from a GB wallet (GB Wallet), simply apply all available points or the maximum number of them (2500 GB points), choose a payment method «Wire Transfer" and click the "Confirm your order" button to confirm the order.
On the next page you will see a message, one of the lines of which will be “Time to pay for your order expires in 15 days" or "Your order expires within 15 days." if you, like me, use English version of the site.
And a new order will appear in your orders, and its status will be “Waiting for payment”.
Now all that remains is to wait for the time “H” to arrive, i.e. nights from March 31 to April 1, and cancel this order. All points will be automatically returned to you
Will it work? Who knows. But you can try if there are no other options.
