DJI are trying to gain some control of the marketing, in Australia at least, in regulating and having fairly stringent conditions to retail their consumer products. One very stringent condition is NOT selling on third party sites, (eBay, Amazon, Catch etc), and NOT selling to other retailers, (or sub-Distributing). In Aussie they cannot by law control any pricing, so this smacks the whole concept like this thread. As a retailer in IT and Electronics for many many many years, we have sold various drones for years, including the DJI range, Phantoms, Mavics etc, then suddenly we have to have agreements to carry on as before.
So I'm wondering how far DJI will take this concept? Or are they just picking on Aussie? Because of our isolated location, and specificy in retail, on-line has never really been a bother, many times asked how our pricing is compared, most very supprised at the lieing afforded in on-line selling, particularly overseas offerings. I had one inquiry a while ago, where I was able to prove a particular on-line add was for a Mavic Pro, claiming to be the newest
MP2, many $100's less, once proven, they then asked me to try and source a MP???? One wondered why the initial inquiry.
Here they like the outlets to be Photograpy specific, or true Electronics it seems. Not sure how successful it will be.