ChrisViperM
Active Member
While I was hunting for some spare parts for my "beloved" DJI S800, I realized strange things going on at a lot of the DJI dealers.......everything in connection with S800 + Wookong + Zenmuse seems to be on sale in a big scale. On the S800 + WKM + Zen combo you can save a hefty € 1.500. Some dealers are honest and just show the price reduction, some try with irritating descriptions, like: "....comes with the new V4 ESC's blablabla..." or "....S800 V2 EVO..." By asking by email they are mumbling something like "....mhhhh, yeah, it's the old S800, but we fit it with the "new" EVO arms, it is a one-time occassion for that price, blablabla...."
On the other hand there were some news at the NAB 2013 from DJI about the coming "overhauled" S800 (S800 EVO), a new flight control (ATM) and a new Zenmuse (Zenmuse EVO).....
If I compare the pre-order madness when they introducesd the S800 (and a bit later the Zenmuse), with pre-order payments and all the other accompanying marketing machinery, for my taste it's a bit too quiet around the new DJI stuff, especially if the launch (according to some rumors) is within the next few weeks. On not one single dealer web-site you can see any announcements about the new product (that includes DJI web-site), nothing, nada, nix....This is even more interesting if you have read the DJI statement that "All testing has been done and it's very close to be released to the market...."
Lastly there is the introduction of the new GoPro Zenmuse, where the marketing runs in a complete different way.....info's everywhere, pre-orders avalible and so on.....
Is it possible, that the GoPro Zenmuse is a new product for DJI and no dealer has to first get rid of the old, previous model .....??? :highly_amused:
Is it possible that there is complete news-barrier to give the dealers the opportunity to get rid of useless S800's, unreliable WKM's and Zenmuses....???
Apperantely no dealer knows anything about the launch-date for the EVO stuff, but some people also still believe in Father Christmas.....
Now imagine you are a newbee and didn't really follow what's going on in the Multirotor Universe.....you look at these deal offers and think: Ouuuhhhh, that's a cool deal......only to find out by the time you receive your "worthless" parcel that - like Magic - over night there are the new (and hopefully better) products avalible. I can tell you, if that newbee was me, I would go through the roof for being taken for a ride.....might book a flight to China with my favorite baseball bat in the luggage.
In short words, I suspect that DJI is forcing all dealers to shut up in order to sell as much as possible of the S800 & Co crap before the EVO launch, otherwise all remaining stock would only be useful as fire-wood....and that means to find enough idiots which are willing to spend their money and invest in a seriously outdated product. If somebody knows what he is doing and can live with the limitations, than he can score a great deal at the moment, but I guess this is the minority.
My question: Are we taken for a ride again like so many times before, or will there be a time in the future where these jerks finally realize that we are grown up people and just don't need lies (directly or indirectly), and that we are willing to invest some serious cash if the product and the service is right.
Apart from that, I predict that if the EVO line is not absolutely spot-less, DJI will just go down the drain, like so many smart-a*ss people before.....
Chris
On the other hand there were some news at the NAB 2013 from DJI about the coming "overhauled" S800 (S800 EVO), a new flight control (ATM) and a new Zenmuse (Zenmuse EVO).....
If I compare the pre-order madness when they introducesd the S800 (and a bit later the Zenmuse), with pre-order payments and all the other accompanying marketing machinery, for my taste it's a bit too quiet around the new DJI stuff, especially if the launch (according to some rumors) is within the next few weeks. On not one single dealer web-site you can see any announcements about the new product (that includes DJI web-site), nothing, nada, nix....This is even more interesting if you have read the DJI statement that "All testing has been done and it's very close to be released to the market...."
Lastly there is the introduction of the new GoPro Zenmuse, where the marketing runs in a complete different way.....info's everywhere, pre-orders avalible and so on.....
Is it possible, that the GoPro Zenmuse is a new product for DJI and no dealer has to first get rid of the old, previous model .....??? :highly_amused:
Is it possible that there is complete news-barrier to give the dealers the opportunity to get rid of useless S800's, unreliable WKM's and Zenmuses....???
Apperantely no dealer knows anything about the launch-date for the EVO stuff, but some people also still believe in Father Christmas.....
Now imagine you are a newbee and didn't really follow what's going on in the Multirotor Universe.....you look at these deal offers and think: Ouuuhhhh, that's a cool deal......only to find out by the time you receive your "worthless" parcel that - like Magic - over night there are the new (and hopefully better) products avalible. I can tell you, if that newbee was me, I would go through the roof for being taken for a ride.....might book a flight to China with my favorite baseball bat in the luggage.
In short words, I suspect that DJI is forcing all dealers to shut up in order to sell as much as possible of the S800 & Co crap before the EVO launch, otherwise all remaining stock would only be useful as fire-wood....and that means to find enough idiots which are willing to spend their money and invest in a seriously outdated product. If somebody knows what he is doing and can live with the limitations, than he can score a great deal at the moment, but I guess this is the minority.
My question: Are we taken for a ride again like so many times before, or will there be a time in the future where these jerks finally realize that we are grown up people and just don't need lies (directly or indirectly), and that we are willing to invest some serious cash if the product and the service is right.
Apart from that, I predict that if the EVO line is not absolutely spot-less, DJI will just go down the drain, like so many smart-a*ss people before.....
Chris