He literally sent me a receipt of the drone with his name and credit card, but by the time DJI cared enough to try and do more by asking for more information, the seller already blocked me.Sorry, dude, but you got ripped off. The drone was stolen. Of course it worked perfectly, it was still bound to the original account. When you signed out of that account it was locked out for any other account. DJI will not unlock it, if they would, they would be unlocking a lot of stolen drones. It is protection of a sort for the original owner.
It also makes zero sense, even if it was stolen, why wouldn't he just disconnect from the account and create a new account and bind the drone to it? I seriously fail to see the logic here.