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[Closed] Drones on Wish - any worth a punt?

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I know they are ridiculously cheap and are likely to be rubbish, but are there any on Wish sub £100 that are worth a punt? Just fancy something like a DJI Mavic Pro sort of size?
Any ideas? Also there's a 50% discount code HOBBY which is making the Lego-compatible cars look very cheap. £40 for the defender anyone?


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 5:04 pm
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I would maybe try and get the extra or look for a discount on a Mavic mini.

I've got one to carry around with me for quick deploy - it's a half decent starter drone with maybe 75% of the usability of the larger mavics etc.

I've got a couple of larger drones but the mini is genuinely the most easily carried yet and deployed yet.

No idea what wish is.


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 6:41 pm
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Has anything on Wish ever been anything but fake hilariously bad copies?


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 6:56 pm
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I've got one that was about 30 quid and it's very much a plastic toy and I'd imagine the wish ones are similar. Fine if thats what you are expecting, but they are nothing like a dji one and have a range of 10-20 metres or so.


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 7:10 pm
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Don’t know about Wish but something like a Eachine E520S is along the lines of a Mavic Mini - squeaks under 250g, foldable to put easily in a bag, controller that you attach your phone to for live view, footage to a SD card in the drone.

Video quality nowhere near as good, and not quite so many features but it’s £85 or so on Banggood not 4-5x that for the DJI. Plenty of YouTube reviews.

I have one of the tiny little eachine drones for mucking about indoors and that flies amazingly well for something that cost about a tenner.


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 7:17 pm
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Has anything on Wish ever been anything but fake hilariously bad copies?

That is if you even get what you think you have ordered, mate at work ordered a watch for his daughter and they sent a knucleduster, it never arrived but he had a visit from the police after a tip off from Customs!


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 8:23 pm
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Youtube ‘reviews’ aren’t always accurate, one drone that gets advertised on YT actually uses footage from a dji mavic pro to sell itself.
It looks superficially like a mavic pro.
Drones are like bikes, you get what you pay for.
A £50 one is ok, but not in the same league as something that costs 1k.


 
Posted : 17/04/2020 9:25 pm

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