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It occurred to me when I had a few issues purchasing some drones recently in the UK from UK resellers that not all drones are made equal.
Having received the drones and doing unboxing videos for myself I remembered that each multiple Mavic Pro 2 and Evo II Pro I received, had a few differences in packaging or items missing or had lens issues in various places but were consistantly flawed in some way.
Whilst everything was sealed and did not look obviously opened already, some had cellophane covering the controller, on others it was missing. Cables where missing on some props on another, others not, or missing or pre thumbed literature or like how the propellers were wrapped or not or double taped and the cellophane covering them loose or not.
All of these drones were from the same sequenced batch numbers so they were not random items either.
I assumed the manufacturers assemblers just had a bad day on one batch.
Since I returned them all I now have the thought, what happens to the ones I returned?
Do they get tarted up and resold on by the distributer or are they actually returned to Autel?
Once or if they are returned to Autel or DJI, are they tarted up and resold or are they disassembled for parts?
Just wondered if you guys know?
Also wondering if there is or should be a rejected serial number database compiled so we could track where the bad ones go?
Having received the drones and doing unboxing videos for myself I remembered that each multiple Mavic Pro 2 and Evo II Pro I received, had a few differences in packaging or items missing or had lens issues in various places but were consistantly flawed in some way.
Whilst everything was sealed and did not look obviously opened already, some had cellophane covering the controller, on others it was missing. Cables where missing on some props on another, others not, or missing or pre thumbed literature or like how the propellers were wrapped or not or double taped and the cellophane covering them loose or not.
All of these drones were from the same sequenced batch numbers so they were not random items either.
I assumed the manufacturers assemblers just had a bad day on one batch.
Since I returned them all I now have the thought, what happens to the ones I returned?
Do they get tarted up and resold on by the distributer or are they actually returned to Autel?
Once or if they are returned to Autel or DJI, are they tarted up and resold or are they disassembled for parts?
Just wondered if you guys know?
Also wondering if there is or should be a rejected serial number database compiled so we could track where the bad ones go?