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DJI ‘remains committed to the US market’ as shelves go bare of drones

The Mavic 4 Pro, folded, with a DJI RC2 controller.

Is DJI exiting the US drone market? The company says no - but it would not explain to The Verge what has changed such that it can't even keep a single drone on shelves.

When I walked into my local Best Buy store today, June 24th, there were zero DJI drones available to purchase. There wasn't even an empty spot for each drone to go. The entire DJI aisle had been swept clean of price tags, lockers, and products - save a handful of motorized gimbals, action cameras, a single lone RC controller, and an almost empty premium endcap spot where a flagship drone would normally go.

Empty shelves, missing price tags and lockers in the DJI section of Best Buy.A case with an empty spot where drones used to go.

"We're not really carrying DJI drones anymore because of the US-China thing," a store employee told me.

Best Buy is not alone. DJI's own US webstore no longer has any drones in stock, as DroneDJ reported Monday. Despite DJI having an official presence on Amazon, all remaining drones there are sold by third parties with low or unknown quantities of stock. Nor will Best Buy's website be much more help than its physical store: As of Tuesday, its only remaining DJI drones are the last-gen Mavic 3 Pro, priced at $3,890, a refurbished version of that same Mavic 3 Pro, and a refurbished version of the 2022 DJI Av …

Read the full story at The Verge.


Link :
https://www.theverge.com/report/692398/dji-drones-out-of-stock-best-buy-amazon-deny-us-exit
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