Finding used drones in pawnshops

[buschman31]

Lately i've been seeing used DJI drones in a couple of the local pawnshops like Mini 3, Mini 3 pro, Air 2S. Are the owners getting tired of them or is it the possiblity of the new laws that may or may not banning drones from China.

 

[GFields]

There are numerous reasons for this. They could be they are selling to upgrade or just getting out of the drone business. It is very doubtful that it has anything do with "banning drones from China" as the current legislation has nothing to do with existing drones that are in use

 

[msinger]

is it the possiblity of the new laws that may or may not banning drones from China

This one seems highly unlikely since the drones are already in the US.

 

[Cafguy]

I wonder if the Pawn shop knows they purchased a Brick unless they have the account password to unbind it!?

 

[mavic3usa]

I wonder if the Pawn shop knows they purchased a Brick unless they have the account password to unbind it!?

Pawn shops don't know and frankly they don't care because they are working on risk and the price they paid for those drones will likely offset a few bad ones. Once they get burned enough they will figure it out but in the meantime, you can be absolutely sure they will sell a drone to a customer whether it is bound or not and *after* the sale they will work it out to see who gets stuck with it so I guess it depends on who you are and how you bought it. After all, they are a pawn shop not an electronics reseller or a drone dealer so they aren't exactly culpable to know the in's and out's of drones. My guess is if a drone comes in without a controller and the pawn shop doesn't know how to check it, the drone will be worth a lot less once these pawn shops realize the scam.

 

[msinger]

I wonder if the Pawn shop knows they purchased a Brick unless they have the account password to unbind it!?

I bet they do after they get burned once. But, I'm sure there are lots of cases like this where they have to understand what they are buying so they don't run into any issues when reselling.

 

[buschman31]

Well The drones that i've checked on are ok for me to get the dji care service. May first experience with buying an used DJI drone from an online pawnshop was not very good. But in the end, Dji came thru. Three thrumbs up for them. So now if i put one on layaway I check the SN#.

 

[GrantleyB]

Have noticed the same trend down here in Oz.