Contacted a guy on Facebook Marketplace about a Mavic 3 Flymore Combo with a few extras he was selling for $1500.
This was $500+ cheaper than other listings I had seen. He claimed he only flew it a "couple of times".
He said he bought it to film "his horses" but that it freaked the horses out and he gave up on it.
(the original poster was a woman who passed me along to "her brother" which always seems suspect)
We agreed to meet. He said he worked at a pizza shop and I could come by anytime.
It was in a rough part of the city.
Then I'm thinking, "a guy that owns horses is working in a pizza shop?"
But I go anyways and meet up with him.
Tested the drone and seemed like it wasn't bound to an account and not logged into a DJI account.
Got home, but THIS TIME, when I started it, I got the message about it being bound to another account and I would only be able to fly it 3 more times.
No idea why that didn't pop up when I tested it there.
I thought I was screwed. But I called him and told him it was bound to his account.
He said he had never owned another drone but said he didn't want to give me his DJI account password so I could unbind it.
I offered to drive back so that he could unbind it himself. He made a couple of excuses as to why he couldn't meet but said he'd call me back.
I had a bad feeling.
But just five minutes later, he called and said I was all set. And sure enough, I was able to unbind it.
And today, I look at battery charge cycles, and it was 1, 1 and 2. He wasn't lying that he barely ever flew it.
And there was 1 video in the internal storage. Sure enough: of horses.
Guy was 100% legit.
This was $500+ cheaper than other listings I had seen. He claimed he only flew it a "couple of times".
He said he bought it to film "his horses" but that it freaked the horses out and he gave up on it.
(the original poster was a woman who passed me along to "her brother" which always seems suspect)
We agreed to meet. He said he worked at a pizza shop and I could come by anytime.
It was in a rough part of the city.
Then I'm thinking, "a guy that owns horses is working in a pizza shop?"
But I go anyways and meet up with him.
Tested the drone and seemed like it wasn't bound to an account and not logged into a DJI account.
Got home, but THIS TIME, when I started it, I got the message about it being bound to another account and I would only be able to fly it 3 more times.
No idea why that didn't pop up when I tested it there.
I thought I was screwed. But I called him and told him it was bound to his account.
He said he had never owned another drone but said he didn't want to give me his DJI account password so I could unbind it.
I offered to drive back so that he could unbind it himself. He made a couple of excuses as to why he couldn't meet but said he'd call me back.
I had a bad feeling.
But just five minutes later, he called and said I was all set. And sure enough, I was able to unbind it.
And today, I look at battery charge cycles, and it was 1, 1 and 2. He wasn't lying that he barely ever flew it.
And there was 1 video in the internal storage. Sure enough: of horses.
Guy was 100% legit.
