A while back, I managed to tangle my P3P with a tree with bad results that you can fine here if you're so inclined: Another sad crash story
After some deliberation, and uncertainty about how long a repair would take, I went back to my supplier and purchased another P3P, as I had already purchased 2 extra batteries,filters, and kind of liked how the thing worked. The dealer felt so bad for me, that he gave me a discount and even discounted a second set of camera filters (one of which was smashed in the crash). I was going to buy a new roll arm and ribbon cables and fix it myself, but decided to send it to DJI, since I wasn't now in any rush. It was only a 2 and a half week turn around, most of which was transit time from Illinois to California and back. It cost around $300 which I don't think was too bad. I don't really know what they replaced, since most of the invoice was in Chinese. So now it's back to factory specs. In hindsight, I should have just sent it in and not bought another one. Duh!
I was thinking of selling it once I got it back, but it's tempting to hang onto it. I figure I'd be lucky to get $800, and would have to buy another battery for the new one. Plus two chargers is nice and there's piece of mind having a back up. So, if anyone has a really good reason to sell it, I'd like to hear it. For now it's standing by in case I have another bout of poor judgement.
After some deliberation, and uncertainty about how long a repair would take, I went back to my supplier and purchased another P3P, as I had already purchased 2 extra batteries,filters, and kind of liked how the thing worked. The dealer felt so bad for me, that he gave me a discount and even discounted a second set of camera filters (one of which was smashed in the crash). I was going to buy a new roll arm and ribbon cables and fix it myself, but decided to send it to DJI, since I wasn't now in any rush. It was only a 2 and a half week turn around, most of which was transit time from Illinois to California and back. It cost around $300 which I don't think was too bad. I don't really know what they replaced, since most of the invoice was in Chinese. So now it's back to factory specs. In hindsight, I should have just sent it in and not bought another one. Duh!
I was thinking of selling it once I got it back, but it's tempting to hang onto it. I figure I'd be lucky to get $800, and would have to buy another battery for the new one. Plus two chargers is nice and there's piece of mind having a back up. So, if anyone has a really good reason to sell it, I'd like to hear it. For now it's standing by in case I have another bout of poor judgement.
