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It's going to be crazy when so many consumers see all these non-DJI drones start to show up at their regular retailers in the absence of the DJI drones; they're going to believe these are the new crop of non-Chinese (aka USA) drone at a slightly more price....and they're going to buy them at full MSRP because Costco had to pull together their own special bundle with one less battery (@$100) and they add a microSD card which is basically worthless making it harder for some to compare. But they are $200 cheaper than the equivalent at Best Buy across the street and while I don't shop at either place routinely, pretty sure the Costco return policy blows away BBY.

Little do customers know (maybe they don't care) that A1 is the last drone we'll see from AG here in the US, this drone is all-foreign and about as anti-US-made as a DJI drone. Still on the fence pending Avata 360 capabilities.
 
It's the Antigravity A1 8K 360 Drone. I personally prefer DJI :)
 
It's going to be crazy when so many consumers see all these non-DJI drones start to show up at their regular retailers in the absence of the DJI drones; they're going to believe these are the new crop of non-Chinese (aka USA) drone at a slightly more price....and they're going to buy them at full MSRP because Costco had to pull together their own special bundle with one less battery (@$100) and they add a microSD card which is basically worthless making it harder for some to compare. But they are $200 cheaper than the equivalent at Best Buy across the street and while I don't shop at either place routinely, pretty sure the Costco return policy blows away BBY.

Little do customers know (maybe they don't care) that A1 is the last drone we'll see from AG here in the US, this drone is all-foreign and about as anti-US-made as a DJI drone. Still on the fence pending Avata 360 capabilities.
"Costco will accept returns within 90 days (from the date the member receives the merchandise) for this product."

That should cover the time period before the Avata 360 is released, so you can still return it to CostCo for a full refund, and order the real McCoy manufactured by DJI through your favorite grey market seller, at roughly half this price!
 
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The 360 thing to me is a novelty one can tire of easily, or at least myself.
It's also a lot of work in post, although extremely flexible, in the sense you can choose any view angle after the fact. Kind of a lazy shooter's crutch, where you always "fix it in post."
 
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I had already reported on this in a previous post Dec. 1,2025. Only got 5 replies. It's great to see US manufacturing getting into the consumer drone business.
Dale
It's the American company CostCo selling the Chinese made Antigravity 1, where the Chinese manufacturer is likely hoping to quickly unload all stock before DJI's far better and cheaper Avata 360 is released!
 
I had already reported on this in a previous post Dec. 1,2025. Only got 5 replies. It's great to see US manufacturing getting into the consumer drone business.
Dale
Antigravity is an offshoot of the Insta360 brand (aka Arashi Vision Inc), a Chinese-owned company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The drones are manufactured in Shenzhen.
 
I had already reported on this in a previous post Dec. 1,2025. Only got 5 replies. It's great to see US manufacturing getting into the consumer drone business.
Dale
If this was indeed made in the USA, then it likely won't be able to be purchased by ordinary folks, government only or too expensive.
 
"Costco will accept returns within 90 days (from the date the member receives the merchandise) for this product."

That should cover the time period before the Avata 360 is released, so you can still return it to CostCo for a full refund, and order the real McCoy manufactured by DJI through your favorite grey market seller, at roughly half this price!
But that's not fair. Like all those guys returning their Christmas trees within the return window.
 
But that's not fair. Like all those guys returning their Christmas trees within the return window.
Yeah but Costco is pretty good at detecting returns abuses. You may get away with it once or maybe twice but if you fall within their limit they'll just cancel your membership forever with no warning. If you don't know it, every purchase you make is on their database. You can even login to your account and pull your receipts.
 

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