Price increases (Pocket 3, Air 3s, Air 3s Battery)... anyone else feeling the pinch?

Hot topic with everything going on but it applies heavily here unfortunately. With that recent post about the Air 3s showing what the new price will soon be, I checked around and saw that the Osmo Pocket 3 is now 800 dollars for just the camera alone, and almost 1k for the creator combo. Ouch. I remember paying 733 for the creator combo and 2 years of refresh, pretty huge jump of about 54% for the camera and 46% for the combo. Along with that, with the post about few days ago mentioning the Air 3s going from 1600 to 2250 for the fly more combo (around 41%, although not technically in effect yet) and the 3s intelligent battery going from 159 to 245 (54%). I guess we now have an idea on what the range will be for price increases across the board for DJI until this all hopefully goes away soon, although I wonder why its only these 3 items right now, my guess would be because everything else is still in stock domestically. This super sucks. Im glad I got all my stuff I wanted before this, at least my “essentials” although there are things I want that I can live without. I have found that Amazon currently still has the Air 3s battery for its original price so Id grab that now if you can, and although on backorder, B&H has the pocket 3 for 620.

Yeah I think the Mavic 4 Pro is off the table for me, sadly.

Quill said:
Yeah I think the Mavic 4 Pro is off the table for me, sadly.

Sadly. If you do the math on the Mavic 3 Pro Fly More Combo, it comes to about $5500. Ouch. So with the new hardware price increase, it’s likely the Mavic 4 Pro could start at least at the $6500 range… though I can’t say for sure. It might be more, it might be less. I was planning to buy the Air 3s later on to save up, but this forced my hand, and I had to put it on my credit card lol

@Charlie
Are we to assume the new Mavic 4 will be 50% more?

Are we great yet?

Now the question is, are people still going to buy at these prices?

Finley said:
Now the question is, are people still going to buy at these prices?

Not sure. I imagine those who have the means will, but that’s only a fraction of the consumer base. I’m concerned about how/if this could impact refresh costs for replacements too.

@Charlie
It will. I believe everything they sell will be impacted, including refresh.

Finley said:
@Charlie
It will. I believe everything they sell will be impacted, including refresh.

I hope that anything bought with refresh pre-tariff will stay the same. I bet that technically since it’s a contract, it has to stay that way. One can hope.

Well, maybe by the time the Mavic 5 Pro comes out, we could be lucky and a certain person might have a heart attack, and tariffs are gone. Time to skip another generation of drone.

Sidney said:
Well, maybe by the time the Mavic 5 Pro comes out, we could be lucky and a certain person might have a heart attack, and tariffs are gone. Time to skip another generation of drone.

I’m tired of ‘winning’.

Sidney said:
Well, maybe by the time the Mavic 5 Pro comes out, we could be lucky and a certain person might have a heart attack, and tariffs are gone. Time to skip another generation of drone.

Once prices go up for whatever reason, I don’t see them coming back down.

@Calder
I tend to agree, but prices are so high (and only for one region) that most people won’t afford or buy at these outrageous prices. I hope they’ll come back down at some point.

Sidney said:
Well, maybe by the time the Mavic 5 Pro comes out, we could be lucky and a certain person might have a heart attack, and tariffs are gone. Time to skip another generation of drone.

Big turds are hard to flush. I wouldn’t count on that guy going anywhere.

@Tru
Gotta keep flushing.

The website also shows the Avata 2 Fly More 3 Battery Combo going up to $1633 from $1199. Oddly, it shows the single battery combo only going up to $1087 from $999.

Dior said:
The website also shows the Avata 2 Fly More 3 Battery Combo going up to $1633 from $1199. Oddly, it shows the single battery combo only going up to $1087 from $999.

Good catch. I’ll be sure to add that in, definitely interesting on the reduction.

Dior said:
The website also shows the Avata 2 Fly More 3 Battery Combo going up to $1633 from $1199. Oddly, it shows the single battery combo only going up to $1087 from $999.

Good chance I’ll sell my A2 since I barely fly it.

@Calder
I’d hold onto it for a few months at least. If they don’t figure a way around the tariffs, then it will be worth more once they’re factored into the new price.

At this point, when I want to upgrade, I’m driving a few hours north to Canada.