Wrong. It was entirely based upon knowing from prior forum members' purchases from the Korean sellers that the 55% tariff would not be assessed because the Koreans were exploiting illegal tariff loopholes based upon the de minimus exemption that they were driving trucks through!
There are multiple sellers in the U.S. from whom you can buy the Mavic 4 Pro today that charge $5400 or more, or you can actually order directly from DJI dealers in Canada and prepay $2200 in tariffs on top of the Canadian $4000 purchase price, and they will ship it directly to you in the U.S.
So, no, it was all about avoiding the 55% tariffs and getting the best price of under $4000 including eBay taxes for the Creator Combo.
Saying I am wrong about the motivations of others, shows off your agenda here more than any real knowledge. If you read my earlier comments, I recently bought a new camera that cost me $500 more to purchase it in the US because of the cost of the tariff, I was never tempted to buy it out of the country for less because I could buy it here, even though it cost more than it should have. To assume why you are the one who knows every persons motives is foolish at best. Prove that buying a DJI product in the US from any vendor was imported in what you would call the legal way, no matter the cost. If it so easy to buy here, why is there no stock at B&H, Adorama, Best Buy, and only at seemly private or very small vendors. It seems you are implying that is because they feel that no one would buy at the price the tariffs would require. Why then is DJI not selling directly in the US.
Please produce a copy of the import form you are so familar with that includes your stated mandatory listing of country of origin. in both a shipping document and the declaration form that a US citizen would fill out flying back home.
I am not disagreeing with the fact that some vendors shipping to the US have possibly misrepresented the value of the item on their import forms. I just think your glee in throwing around the word fraud says something about the agenda here.
Again I will prefaces this with I have not personally bought something out of the country and have flown back with the item and filled out any declaration form, so as to what is required by a traveler today I do not know if it has changed from the last time I did. All it ever asked was a vague description of the item and a value, never I repeat never did it ask country of origin. It may have asked if it was from a country that had its imports banned like Cuban cigars or an item like that was not allowed like a meat product but nothing more. Since I have never been a direct importer I have no idea if the country of origin was required on an importers form. If one thinks about prior to the present administration tariffs were pretty much the same for most countries if at all except for a few. So like I asked before please produce the form showing the requirement.
I guess you do not know much about the value of wine when you say it does not in any way compete with the price of a DJI crator combo. One could i you had the funds and the desire purchse a case of wine euorpe, that had many different countires of origin and spend way more than any DJI Mavic 4 combo.
I also think it is very naive to believe that US customs has anywhere near the infrastructure to examine every shipment to find out the country of origin of the contents within.
Lastly you have ignored why it is difficult to buy a DJI product here in the US, it is not the tariff, one could argue that is because of the unsubstantiated silent ban by US Custom's claim with no evidence that DJI is in violation of the UFLP
Secondly the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C, said that the recprical tariffs you are so concerned with are illegal, or is it fraud on US consumers