…and yet here we are…

Posted on by Tim Olohan

Well, dear reader, it’s March in beautiful British Columbia. By this time of year we’re all fed up with flat grey skies, chilling winds, and that bloody rain !! And somehow, just as we get to think that we just can’t deal anymore, we often get a weeks reprieve from the gloom. The sun comes out, the ground dries up, and we can finally take a look around to discover a few buds on the local flora. I feel like I can relate to the caterpillar waiting to burst forth from the safety of its cocoon into this huge new world. Life lays all opportunity at our feet.

Look, even though Spring is officially just a few days away, Winter isn’t done with us yet. History tells us that we have at least a couple on months of rain to come yet. We know this, but for a couple of more days, let’s just pretend that this t-shirt weather is here to stay. Deal ? Alrighty then.

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Good things come… yadda yadda yadda

Posted on by Tim Olohan

An update

So, my brand new (broken) Mini 3 Pro got dropped off to UPS on Saturday to be returned for a replacement. I logged into the DJI repair portal yesterday (Wednesday) hoping to find that the replacement had been sent from Mississauga and was enroute back to me. No….. that’s not what I found. DJI hasn’t even received it yet.

I started to panic that it had gone missing on me so I logged onto UPS to find that the label that DJI so conveniently had me print off, had my precious cargo being shipped on the back of a three legged turtle and they wouldn’t even get the package until 9 days after I shipped it.

Now, I’m not going to lose my mind over it. A paying job has come up that I’d love to do right away, but it’ll have to wait. I AM going to state my disappointment so far. I was excited to get my new drone, the weather didn’t cooperate, I couldn’t fly for a few days, that was disappointing. Then the screw up, also disappointing, but these things happen from time to time. However, if I was DJI and a customer had an issue literally right out of the box, never even had the motors come up to full speed, I’d be sending the replacement as soon as I had confirmation that the original was in shipping back to the factory. Like, overnight. I know there a lot of people who would take advantage or outright scam a company. I get it. But as I sit here thinking that it’s going to take 3 weeks for a replacement to come, the disappointment is starting to taste a bit bitter. I even put out extra for DJI Care, insurance in case of a crash. I thought that would buy me an “express pass”. Nope.

I’ll just wait. Right over here.

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