Fraud Warning

[Samzero]

One of the larger retailers of consumer quads, "Drone-World" was recently shut down. Apparently, the owner, Stephen McKenna, was counterfeiting products (cheap knockoffs) and passing them off as the original "real" product. Attached is the court docket of what is going on:

Aerial West, LLC v. Drone World, LLC, 2:18-cv-02288 - CourtListener.com

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[Ansia]

You ever wonder how these people think they will get away with such obvious schemes.

 

[Samzero]

You ever wonder how these people think they will get away with such obvious schemes.

Very true. That operation was known to be scamming people for so long. Selling ITElite antennas for 5x the price after claiming that they "invented" it. Glad to see that justice finally caught up with the guy.

 

[lasersbee]

Greed will get you every time....

 

[GFields]

I bought a Mavic Air from Drone World and it is authentic and I've never had any issues with it. What products, if you know, were they selling that were "knock-offs"?

 

[Ansia]

I bought a Mavic Air from Drone World and it is authentic and I've never had any issues with it. What products, if you know, were they selling that were "knock-offs"?

See post #3.

 

[Gregg Kielma]

They are a rip off. They owe me a drone that was paid for. Also I purchased the one year insurance and they never sent the money to DJI. Pi$$ed! Shame on them.

 

[Gregg Kielma]

One of the larger retailers of consumer quads, "Drone-World" was recently shut down. Apparently, the owner, Stephen McKenna, was counterfeiting products (cheap knockoffs) and passing them off as the original "real" product. Attached is the court docket of what is going on:

Aerial West, LLC v. Drone World, LLC, 2:18-cv-02288 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Aerial West, LLC v. Drone World, LLC, 2:18-cv-02288 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

www.courtlistener.com

Its been shut down for months.

 

[Samzero]

Its been shut down for months.

But I'm showing the reason why it is shut down.

 

[Cellblock776]

Wow. When our department bought our Phantom 4 Pro + Falcon kit for our UAV Team we had nothing but positive dealings with them. We went back to them for orders of additional batteries and other items and all were shipped quickly and were in perfect working order. We spoke to them on the phone a couple of times and had great service. I knew they closed suddenly and there was some sort of drama but didn't know it was this bad. Real shame. While the owner may have been wrong his employees were awesome to work with.

 

[Samzero]

Wow. When our department bought our Phantom 4 Pro + Falcon kit for our UAV Team we had nothing but positive dealings with them. We went back to them for orders of additional batteries and other items and all were shipped quickly and were in perfect working order. We spoke to them on the phone a couple of times and had great service. I knew they closed suddenly and there was some sort of drama but didn't know it was this bad. Real shame. While the owner may have been wrong his employees were awesome to work with.

Looks like you were the vast exception.

 

[Cellblock776]

Yeah, we got lucky looking at all of this now. All I can say is, Wow and shake my head.

 

[JSKCKNIT]

Thanks for posting this. Explains a lot.

 

[Nightwolf]

Greed will get you every time....

Would that it were so. Greed is often rewarded when it should be condemned. These guys just aren't high enough in the food chain to get away with it

 

[Dennis Frantz]

One of the larger retailers of consumer quads, "Drone-World" was recently shut down. Apparently, the owner, Stephen McKenna, was counterfeiting products (cheap knockoffs) and passing them off as the original "real" product. Attached is the court docket of what is going on:

Aerial West, LLC v. Drone World, LLC, 2:18-cv-02288 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Aerial West, LLC v. Drone World, LLC, 2:18-cv-02288 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

www.courtlistener.com

Please beware.
I bought this product because I have 10 old Phantom 4 batteries that are very old and/or damaged. I wanted a safe way to discharge them to 0%. I followed the directions on the product and with in 15 minutes, the product started to melt. I've included some photos.