Thanks to Dave for helping with this episode! You can watch more scam-busters in my playlist: bit.ly/clan3o1EdZ2 I also made a new playlist for the weird computers and gadgets I come across: bit.ly/clan3TxnoE0
An MIT student was fired from his job studying at Harvard. He created this revolutionary product that powers your whole house using only frosted donuts. Big Donut keeps trying to take him down, but the People's Court ruled that he's the best boy, and now this technology is available to you for only $6,000!
Not kind of flies. Cheap chinese drones actually fly pretty well. Nice park flyer. Only serious limitation are very poor camera and lack of range. You can get maybe 30 meters range (more if you add better antenna).
@@roflmatol low quality stuff chinese products are more infamous for being bad then good they have good products I actually buy high quality IEM from a chinese brand good stuff but more then not youll find garbage
You are looking at this all wrong. That drone is Super Awesome for 12 bucks! It's Totally worth the price. For 12 bucks it's Actually remote controlled which is leaps better than the flying toys we had in the 1970's that required connection via a cable. This drone takes video which those old flying machines could not do. The drone has a much farther range than those old cable connected flying toys. Computer Clan should have taken these awesome traits into account.
@@DivergentDroid I hear you. A friend bought me one a few years back (after his own got lost on its first flight). I flew it twice outdoors but it had a habit of drifting into sheep fields next door. It was too unstable and effectively unflyable. All you can do is try really hard to keep it in the air and stop it doing whatever it's doing that you really don't want it io do! I remember (I'm 53) a Star Trek toy in the early 80's. It was just a fan on a wire rotating around a board. The wire pivoted from the centre of the board and you 'applied warp' by speeding up the fan with a dial. The tiny plastic USS Enterprise on top of the fan kept it pitched forward and the object of the game was to land on specific parts of the board to do missions. I loved that game to bits and I felt like I was flying a spaceship. If the 10-year-old me could have even *seen* one of these drones up close he would have shit the bed! If he managed to save up and by one he would have been awfully disappointed with what he bought. And I'm fairly certain he would have fallen for the Navy Seal, covert ops, super-duper bullshit, too. ;¬)
@@DivergentDroid While the drone on *aliexpress* is really cheap, the one on the site (the point of this video) is around $100, which is a pretty bad deal.
This item was received by me as a Christmas gift this year and purchased through the Best Buy marketplace from a different dropshipper by a family member of mine, because they knew that I was interested in the drone hobby. While researching the specs and abilities of this device online, I was recommended this video. the $299.99 "pre sale" price which was so graciously bumped down to 200 Canadian dollars by the seller parted my family member from a sizeable chunk of money during a time when they are soon to become on a fixed income. Please make your families aware of shady practices like this and have them get into the habit of searching for other listings for expensive items they'd like to buy so that people stop falling for stuff like this. Thank you for making this video, without it the person who purchased this product would be none the wiser.
Yeah "marketplace" sellers shouldn't be allowed on sites like BestBuy, Newegg, Walmart. People buy from them thinking it's the store, and the price is reasonable. Meanwhile it's full of scammers.
It's 2023 this sort of stuff has been happening since the dawn of time much less the internet If people are still fooled by this sort of thing in the 2020s they deserve it
A text to speech voiceover is the biggest and most obvious clue its a scam. No legitimate company would do that, unless they are promoting AI or something.
I might get one of these of AliExpress. A working drone, even if it doesn't work well, for 12$ is pretty good. Obviosly just to fly around a bit and not for recording video...
@@octopusdreams In the video it was mentioned that the camera contained in the drone doesn’t actually record any footage directly (“locally” as in “directly on board of the drone to an SD card or whatever”). Instead it simply creates a Wi-Fi network for your phone to connect to, transmits the video wirelessly and has the phone do the recording of the footage (not onboard the drone, hence the opposite of locally: remotely). This is a huge downside, since the video is transmitted wirelessly, meaning it needs to be ridiculously compressed, resulting in an even worse video quality than the already cheapo-grade camera would do if it recorded directly.
@@simonro9168 Not only limits the video quality but also severely limits the range of what the camera can capture, as the wifi signal will go weak way before you lose sight of the drone.
A $5,000 for $100, but is really only $12 ? Yeah, that’s about right! I’ve watched your videos for a few years and I’ve learned a lot, but even if I didn’t, it’s pretty obvious that it’s a scam. I’m not an expert in drones, but I know it’s a scam when they show the expensive original but not the cheap copy. This was a very educational video….
@@gdutfulkbhh7537 I dunno mate - the marketing certainly seems to be pretty effective, or at least effective *_enough._* If scams like this one didn't generate huge piles of easy cash, they wouldn't bother running them. The fact that shtt like this just keeps on and on and on happening implies two things: One, that a heck of a lot of people are gullible idiots who seem almost _eager_ to be lied to, and will apparently fall for pretty much anything, Two, that scamming all those gullible idiots is simple and easy enough that any lazy bstrd with the ability to stitch stock footage together and the morals of a hungry hyena, can 'earn' some pretty sizeable profits doing this kind of shtt.
Funny how all those ads sound so similar. Big company keeps prices high and one engineer takes all in his own hands and now everyone can have it for a „low“ price.
You got a subscribe from me for this video. As a Part 107 pilot I can verify that everything in this video is spot on. A great commentary on scams and drones. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know the scams were this bad. Bravo.
Sometimes you don’t have to be a professional to find false claims. Yes, it does take a bit of effort to find the lies but it does get easier to identify bad products. Just keep watching these videos and it may help.
(Playing the "Wow, that's amazing" music that I've heard in *THE SAME STYLE OF VIDEO MULTIPLE TIMES:)* "Here's how to legally steal gasoline form gas stations!" Not even 5 seconds in, and it already sounds wrong.
If something claims to be based on cutting edge military technology, it's probably a scam, because that sort of stuff is all classified and will be for probably decades, patent or no patent. Also if the patent recently expired then we're talking about drone technology from around 1998-2002. I've seen drones from that time period in the Smithsonian! They're all conventional aircraft the size of a hangglider or ultralight!
the patent could be so vague it could apply to any existing drone. or its a mechanism inside the drone. notice no reference to a patent number that could be looked up
You explaining the hilarious back stories of these sham products marketed to the very lowest of the lowest of the low has become my absolute favorite RUclips experience. I love those stories and I love how you narrate them. Great job.
I bought one of these, they charged me for 4 and sent me 4. I could not get my money back either. I saw the ad on youtube and was hoping half of it was true. Turns out they are just 12$ pieces of junk, thats why they sent 4 and charged me 250$, big return for them.
I've seen the ad for this drone on RUclips and while I knew it was clearly a scam I also wondered how bad it could be. Now I know and knowing is half the battle. I'm also now subscribed as well. Great video!
the sad thing is that youtube had this on their channel, cash in on the bucks, and don't care what crap they are selling, there are countries where the host gets sued for the content they broadcast, inappropriate content, misleading content or scams etc.
It's the equivalent of about 40$ in legit online stores around here, marketed as a toy for children. Listed specs are: 2Mpx camera, 9 minutes autonomy, 100m range, 500mAh battery and a microSD slot (card not included).
I remember buying one of these on eBay for like $20 to practice before buying a more expensive drone. It was a lot of fun until it caught a breeze and flew into the void.
Since you had fun, it was well worth $20 I trust? You can't get a lot for $20 these days anyway. (other than half way decent china made tools from Harbor Freigt). LOL
I think when you ask at @03:45 if there is anything wrong with these two ad: Yes, It was a pre ad video on RUclips where 70% of ads are scams and Google should pay financial compensation and held liable to everyone that has been scammed for not vetting their clients and being a tech company not using AI to detect a scam advert.
Great video, Ken. I'm glad you're shining a light on these things that trick people. I worry about my mom who's getting up there in age, and she's preyed upon often by scammers.
It is flying, so that means gooood 👍 who cares that everything else is crap 🤣😂 right❓ Hehe, at least Ken got it, made cool video and video is way bether than having that drone even for free 🤣. Take care everyone 😁
Bought one years ago when it was a bit more expensive and it made a nice messing around gift, but only if you buy it more directly from one of the Chinese sellers rather than via a scammy dropshipper
I'm in Thailand at the moment and their Ali Express is called Lazada and that Drone now comes with 2 cameras (including the front mounted one offering 4K resolution) is going for between US$8-US$20 depending who you buy from and is listed as the E88 Pro Drone.
If it had a slightly better camera and local recording and was $30 I'd probably buy one for use in property inspections. A drone that can help you inspect a house roof, while being cheap enough that you could abandon it if it got stuck in a tall tree, is potentially useful.
Yeah that exists, its called the Eachine e58, its got a SD card slot, has tons of spares available, and is pretty cheap. I used one before. If you want one with GPS, get a 4drc f11.
@@TicTac-g7m If you were inspecting a large tract of land or taking publicity photos for real estate or something, I'd go with a DJI drone. For the purposes of my former line of work, anything made by DJI is going to be too expensive and valuable to risk, or too large to go where it will sometimes need to go. Sometimes we needed drones that could fly indoors where it didn't matter too much if unauthorised occupants broke them.
I really suggest getting one of these, iv got 2 of them and they are the most "fun" drones I have. As much as this vid is about the sales scam the actual drones when bought for the right price are a good laugh. Here in the UK i paid £20 for 2 of these both of which came in there own carry case with spare props and 3 battries. Battary life is not great, but with 3 its not a problem and they charge quite quickly so not to long to wait if you still want to play with it. They are also pretty stable to fly although they do drift alot, but the big bonus that Ken never mentioned which makes them so much fun (especialy for kids to play with) is that they have a button on the remote to make them do diffrent flips in the air and as pointed out they are so light they just dont break when crashed so you can mess about with no worries of damaging it. Also, provided you did not buy through a scam page, they are so cheap you just dont care if it gets bashed.
What really makes me angry is - in Germany Ads like this are not legal but RUclips takes forever to remove them if you make a complaint (should be easy for ai to recognize s**** like this) but oh wonder some small youtube does some little thing: Strike in 5 seconds.
The fact that _everything_ that IS on it works... is amazing. Its like making pizza with filo sheets, thinned potted meat, V8, a spray bottle of cream and producing an actual paper thin pizza flavored and pizza looking thing!
5:36 on the AliExpress page there are two color variants can be selected, and the currently selected has a Color: 1080P. Isn't the resolution 1080P? No, the color! So tragicomically funny, I love it!
Yes in fact if you watch youtubers who review drones some of them recommend these cheap drones as way to learn to fly. Kind of mind boggling how they can put together this drone, package it and ship it for just $20.
It wouldn't surprise me if the camera system was genuinely pulling 720p off the sensor and trying to stream that to the app, it's just that 720p with a really low bitrate captured on an ultra cheap sensor looks way worse than standard definition with a decent bitrate on a decent sensor
If you watch the video closely, even the seller on Aliexpress says it's a 480p (SD) resolution, which most likely drop even further when it only can stream and not being loaded into a memory card.
These types of video are becoming more valuable by the day. So many people getting caught out by things and will believe what the 'read' in the marketing stuff. Most people who will watch the channel recognise that and recognise the stupid-ness of some of the claims but....not everyone, sadly :(
You know what's crazy. This stuff goes on all the time. People buy stuff off the AliExpress and Alibaba and sell it for stupid prices in America because nobody (compared to how many who do) checks those websites for stuff like this. This just has a whole song and dance tied to it.
I use a drone for various photography things (DJI Mini 3 pro) and will often get people coming up to me to say they have a drone too but can't make it hover like that or record the kind of 4k quality. When pressed, they often say that they only paid this amount for a drone and then can't get over the price I paid for mine (some have even said I've been scammed because I could have bought "one of the drones that are under £100"). The fact that it took off actually impressed me, though that was short lived with the battery then dying without warning =D.
I actually have a newer model but not from these guys and mine can actually stay stable in flight and warns you when the battery is dying. The cameras are shit, yes cameras the second camera is pointing forward and doubles as an optical flow sensor. No GPS though.
There would be one use for these. Drone skeet shooting. Buy in bulk from the manufacturer then fly them at a shotgun range for people to try blasting out of the air. The poor flying of them would make it harder.
Yup, these days it will cost you around $20 for "E88 pro" drone. Not bad if you are just trying to learn how to fly a drone in a park. Not a big deal if it crashes either.
JUST remember folks , if it sounds TOOOOOOO good to be true IT PROBABLY IS !!!!!!! Thanks for confirming every suspicion I had about that drone !!!! I'm usually a sucker for these kinda things and luckily I didnt get sucked in this time ! Thanks
Pretty sure one of the first drones it shows it a DJI Inspire. I believe it was near a volcano or mountain or something. Also, it then switched to an FPV drone which the inspire, mavic, autel evo, and most commercially available drones are not. That being said DJI does sell an FPV drone so they can rip that one off next!
I have a similar folding drone that came from aliexpress also. And I enjoy it very much :) It was about 100 dollars 3 years ago. It has a memory card slot inside the aircraft, the app shows the battery percentage of the aircraft, and it has GPS, follow mode, map mode, crash sensors, altitude meter, and a cool(also real) 1080p cam. It is the CSJ s167 GPS drone by the way.
Yes S167 drone appear to be nice drone (at least according to description), way better than bottom tier mavic clones. But I don't see SD card slot as being a feature. It's a shame that most cheaper drones these days don't come with SD card slot.
@@coldspring22 SD card slot is in the camera module. Not easy to access, though. That is why I don't remove it. I transfer the videos over wifi instead.
I thought I recognized that assembly line footage at 2:46, and yeah, it's stolen from Valve. As in the-people-who-make-Steam Valve. Here's the original source, their "Building the Steam Controller" video, which shows them creating the assembly line for the device. If you look closely, you can actually see the Aperture Laboratories logo on the machinery! ruclips.net/video/uCgnWqoP4MM/видео.html
I recently encountered an obvious scam site claiming to sell $700 pool table sets for $59 with free shipping. It had a 5 minute timer for how much longer the "sale" would last. Just for sh*ts and giggles I let the timer run out just to see if anything would happen. Sure enough, just like this one, it hit zero and reset to 5 minutes. I guess they liked me enough to extend the sale. What a great company!
Brilliant research 👌🏼 For £12 tho I’d say it’s probably worth it Great stocking filler for Christmas If you get it from Ali express in time for Christmas that is
This is fabulous, Ken! You're as funny as the late night comedians 🙂 This is an unbelievable POS. How could Alibaba sell them for $12, even in large quantities?
For a while I was getting bombarded by ads for these flying junk piles. As a long time drone pilot, I have been using DJI products for the last several years. They are pretty much flawless and pack a lot of technology into small packages with great results. As you said, you get what you pay for. I don't think I would even buy one of these pieces of crap for my 11 year old grandson. The video from his toy drone is better than one of these. I too looked closely at the videos I was sent on these things and noticed the ripoff of DJI products and logos. Even at $12, they're still a waste of money.
I know someone who bought one of these and they said they liked it was in All American company and I kept my mouth shut about the fact that it was made in China for $12. He paid $83 on sale for it. I told him that he should just buy a DJI for $600 with the warranty and crash protection and the store he bought it from walked him through how to use everything. Plus for only $35 a visit he can bring it back for help with things like updating firmware and replacing blades or replacing parts that have broken in a crash. Overall he's happy and thought it was worth the money. Long story short, just buy a DJI and you won't regret it
I don't know anything about drones, but the thing that caught my ear was the part of the ad that talked about the patent ending. In the U.S., a patent is granted for a period of 20 years. I doubt that a patent for something as lucrative as a consumer drone would be allowed to just expire. Also, from what I could find in a few minutes of research, there are many patents out there from various companies so the story of a patent "expiring" doesn't make any sense.
In 2018 I purchased an Eachine E58 from Banggood for around $85 it was never marketed like the Skyquad, I crashed it broke things and the FPV experience was not good as the video was awful. But I had fun with it then moved on to better drones. When I saw these ads appear on RUclips advertising I thought I hope nobody buys these. There's an old saying if its too good to be true then give it a big miss.
I picked one of these up for £3 from Temu the other week, for that price it's really good. It's way better than my old £60 cheap drone..actually hovers pretty stable!
13:26 technically even lasers could be considered military technology technically some military Technologies that were worth $5,000.20 years ago are worth like 20 cents now
asked my mom for a fpv drone for christmas… now im here bruh, i think she even expected more from it 😂 dont get me wrong here, it is fun to fly, but the battery lasts about 10 minutes and wont fly straight even indoors, youll spend all your time adjusting the straightness and end up wasting the battery… the camera to phone situation is just streaming to the phone through the wifi and the phone records the footage, in another term: it sucks ass, impossible to fly it through the view on the camera and your shots recorded on it simply arent worth it, it cant even withstand the weight of a gopro either. It does do flips with the press of a button yet it is very uncontrollable also, hover mode just rises it infinitely until u stop it, none of the phone buttons affect the drone, the back to home button sends it insanely fast toward the controller with no collision detection, the pathing system does n o t work whatsoever this thing is terrible for what they said it holds.
It was also in Bulgaria.Even in the ad they were showing 95% stuff shot with DJI drones.They also showed DJI drones quite a few times, jumping between maverick 1 and 2 to 3.And the ads either ended up showing their drone likeness or they didn't even show it.
I find your reviews so helpful and well done. What really bothers me is that RUclips is allowing this false advertising, but will censor someone or defund them for saying the truth about a topic that we all need to know the truth on. so go RUclips allow false advertising and stick it to the public. I’m surprised you haven’t been sued yet for telling the truth.
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Thanks to Dave for helping with this episode! You can watch more scam-busters in my playlist: bit.ly/clan3o1EdZ2
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What is the AliExpress link
Snaptain air is exactly the same as this thing too
This man looks like my English teacher , and its a bit odd
@@s6edge7 well there’s a few people in this episode. Which one are you referring to?
@@ComputerClan the cheeky man in the thumbnail
An MIT student was fired from his job studying at Harvard. He created this revolutionary product that powers your whole house using only frosted donuts.
Big Donut keeps trying to take him down, but the People's Court ruled that he's the best boy, and now this technology is available to you for only $6,000!
Was that decision before or after Wapner left?
@@chrisbaker8533 before.
OK I want to buy it, right now!
Mmmm Donut - Homer Simpson
And Brandon got 81 million legal votes lol. People are so stupid they'll beleive anything.
In all fairness, that $12 knockoff drone is absolutely PERFECT for capturing images of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and most UFOs.
👍 nice one.
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mehe... that was funny
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The problem is that you didn't pay $5,000 for it. The drone is so advanced, it knows this, hence will disable all of its nifty features.
This would be a great plot element in a cyberdystopia piece.
@@blakksheep736 Don’t forget Tesla is a real company.
The big corporation strikes again!
hey, my smartdrone got a downgrade!
Yeah, just like a base model car if you want the goodies, you pay extra.😆🤣😁🤣😆
The fact that it even kind of flies for $13 is pretty amazing to me.
Not kind of flies. Cheap chinese drones actually fly pretty well. Nice park flyer. Only serious limitation are very poor camera and lack of range. You can get maybe 30 meters range (more if you add better antenna).
@@coldspring22 Isn't DJI a Chinese brand as well? They make nice drones
@@roflmatol low quality stuff chinese products are more infamous for being bad then good they have good products I actually buy high quality IEM from a chinese brand good stuff but more then not youll find garbage
99% of this thing is an arduino nano or similar for sure
Our military buys these at a premium. Thank God for China and cheap.
To be fair, if someone somehow managed to sell that to the military they would charge at least $5000
And still do,and way worse.Remember the $10k toilet seats? The $5k hammers? And it happens every day
I mean they pay 10k for a 1 liter bag of ball bearings, so ya.
@@rickywoods3101 The latest was 90k for like 5 bushings in a snack bag!
Hey Ken, glad I could help out on this video! It was a blast working together, but not so fun flying the SkyQuad... 😬
You are looking at this all wrong. That drone is Super Awesome for 12 bucks! It's Totally worth the price. For 12 bucks it's Actually remote controlled which is leaps better than the flying toys we had in the 1970's that required connection via a cable. This drone takes video which those old flying machines could not do. The drone has a much farther range than those old cable connected flying toys. Computer Clan should have taken these awesome traits into account.
@@DivergentDroid I hear you. A friend bought me one a few years back (after his own got lost on its first flight). I flew it twice outdoors but it had a habit of drifting into sheep fields next door. It was too unstable and effectively unflyable. All you can do is try really hard to keep it in the air and stop it doing whatever it's doing that you really don't want it io do!
I remember (I'm 53) a Star Trek toy in the early 80's. It was just a fan on a wire rotating around a board. The wire pivoted from the centre of the board and you 'applied warp' by speeding up the fan with a dial. The tiny plastic USS Enterprise on top of the fan kept it pitched forward and the object of the game was to land on specific parts of the board to do missions.
I loved that game to bits and I felt like I was flying a spaceship. If the 10-year-old me could have even *seen* one of these drones up close he would have shit the bed! If he managed to save up and by one he would have been awfully disappointed with what he bought. And I'm fairly certain he would have fallen for the Navy Seal, covert ops, super-duper bullshit, too. ;¬)
Nice 5" build! Is that an Armattan Badger frame? Really cool GoPro mount too!
@@DivergentDroid While the drone on *aliexpress* is really cheap, the one on the site (the point of this video) is around $100, which is a pretty bad deal.
OK you thanked him, but did he share his transporter tech with you?
I love that they say about the collision detection feature and immediately follow that with a clip of a drone ploughing into a tree.
That stood out for me amongst the host of red flags. They busted themselves within seconds.
These exact drones are on Amazon for like 50 bucks. Lol 🗑️ trash
Yeah what collision ?
Yeah, that one cracked me up, too.
Did anybody notice it was two different drones?
This item was received by me as a Christmas gift this year and purchased through the Best Buy marketplace from a different dropshipper by a family member of mine, because they knew that I was interested in the drone hobby. While researching the specs and abilities of this device online, I was recommended this video. the $299.99 "pre sale" price which was so graciously bumped down to 200 Canadian dollars by the seller parted my family member from a sizeable chunk of money during a time when they are soon to become on a fixed income. Please make your families aware of shady practices like this and have them get into the habit of searching for other listings for expensive items they'd like to buy so that people stop falling for stuff like this. Thank you for making this video, without it the person who purchased this product would be none the wiser.
Lesson: Don't buy junk like this from Amazon thinking YOU'RE getting a steal, it's actually the other way round... 😖
Yeah "marketplace" sellers shouldn't be allowed on sites like BestBuy, Newegg, Walmart. People buy from them thinking it's the store, and the price is reasonable. Meanwhile it's full of scammers.
Buy a DJI mini drone. They’re outstanding and while they’ll cost you a bit more than these cheap things you’ll have a great drone you’ll love.
It's 2023 this sort of stuff has been happening since the dawn of time much less the internet
If people are still fooled by this sort of thing in the 2020s they deserve it
"We know you like drones, so here's a shit drone. Merry Christmas"
its actually impressive to me that someone made that for less than 12 bucks
Same here lol
lol wait till you see how cheap the regular non-scam products you buy can be made for.
A text to speech voiceover is the biggest and most obvious clue its a scam. No legitimate company would do that, unless they are promoting AI or something.
Honestly, if it had local recording, for $12 I wouldn't be too upset.
I might get one of these of AliExpress. A working drone, even if it doesn't work well, for 12$ is pretty good. Obviosly just to fly around a bit and not for recording video...
@@octopusdreams In the video it was mentioned that the camera contained in the drone doesn’t actually record any footage directly (“locally” as in “directly on board of the drone to an SD card or whatever”). Instead it simply creates a Wi-Fi network for your phone to connect to, transmits the video wirelessly and has the phone do the recording of the footage (not onboard the drone, hence the opposite of locally: remotely). This is a huge downside, since the video is transmitted wirelessly, meaning it needs to be ridiculously compressed, resulting in an even worse video quality than the already cheapo-grade camera would do if it recorded directly.
@@simonro9168 Not only limits the video quality but also severely limits the range of what the camera can capture, as the wifi signal will go weak way before you lose sight of the drone.
Looking at the video quality, I would not take one of these things for free.
I have this drone and they have an onboard recording version. The original name of this drone is eachine
The patent expired? Patents last a lot longer than hobby drones have been in existence!
It just the American dream
@@habilterserah4075 "the american dream" Niko bellic
I expected Ken to mention that. Disappointed that he didn't. There's no way the patent could have expired unless these guys are time travelers.
First drones existed in the 70's to 80's but if you mean modern consumer drones, yeah u r right
Actually, it isn’t even close. Patents last around 20 years, drones have existed almost 100 years.
A $5,000 for $100, but is really only $12 ? Yeah, that’s about right!
I’ve watched your videos for a few years and I’ve learned a lot, but even if I didn’t, it’s pretty obvious that it’s a scam.
I’m not an expert in drones, but I know it’s a scam when they show the expensive original but not the cheap copy.
This was a very educational video….
I've learned whenever it's just stock footage and a voice over, it's most likely a drop shipping scam like here.
Consider also that at 12 dollars someone is producing and distributing them and still making a profit. So really worth $3.50 or so?
The Chinese can make cheap junk, but marketing continues to elude them.
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I dunno mate - the marketing certainly seems to be pretty effective, or at least effective *_enough._*
If scams like this one didn't generate huge piles of easy cash, they wouldn't bother running them.
The fact that shtt like this just keeps on and on and on happening implies two things:
One, that a heck of a lot of people are gullible idiots who seem almost _eager_ to be lied to, and will apparently fall for pretty much anything,
Two, that scamming all those gullible idiots is simple and easy enough that any lazy bstrd with the ability to stitch stock footage together and the morals of a hungry hyena, can 'earn' some pretty sizeable profits doing this kind of shtt.
No, it's not $5,000 for $100.
It's a $5,000 drone for $100.
#proofread
Funny how all those ads sound so similar. Big company keeps prices high and one engineer takes all in his own hands and now everyone can have it for a „low“ price.
You got a subscribe from me for this video. As a Part 107 pilot I can verify that everything in this video is spot on. A great commentary on scams and drones. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know the scams were this bad. Bravo.
Sometimes you don’t have to be a professional to find false claims. Yes, it does take a bit of effort to find the lies but it does get easier to identify bad products. Just keep watching these videos and it may help.
It gets easier if you go in thinking its a scam product.
About as difficult as spotting a cold call scammer as soon as you hear the "bloop". The $12 price says it all, just as clearly.
(Playing the "Wow, that's amazing" music that I've heard in *THE SAME STYLE OF VIDEO MULTIPLE TIMES:)* "Here's how to legally steal gasoline form gas stations!"
Not even 5 seconds in, and it already sounds wrong.
If something claims to be based on cutting edge military technology, it's probably a scam, because that sort of stuff is all classified and will be for probably decades, patent or no patent.
Also if the patent recently expired then we're talking about drone technology from around 1998-2002. I've seen drones from that time period in the Smithsonian! They're all conventional aircraft the size of a hangglider or ultralight!
the patent could be so vague it could apply to any existing drone. or its a mechanism inside the drone. notice no reference to a patent number that could be looked up
Most military specs are public. You just aren’t looking in the correct places.
regardless of feelings towards DJI, RUclips Ads, and Trademarks... would love to see DJI bring an infringement lawsuit against the scammers
RUclips Ads....
You know RUclips won't do shit about the ads that sell products that have misleading claims, right?
@@ChaseMC215 cant forget hat china wont do crap about it either
You explaining the hilarious back stories of these sham products marketed to the very lowest of the lowest of the low has become my absolute favorite RUclips experience. I love those stories and I love how you narrate them. Great job.
I bought one of these, they charged me for 4 and sent me 4. I could not get my money back either. I saw the ad on youtube and was hoping half of it was true. Turns out they are just 12$ pieces of junk, thats why they sent 4 and charged me 250$, big return for them.
The camera on this drone is actually perfect quality to record footage of bigfoot
I've seen the ad for this drone on RUclips and while I knew it was clearly a scam I also wondered how bad it could be. Now I know and knowing is half the battle. I'm also now subscribed as well. Great video!
the sad thing is that youtube had this on their channel, cash in on the bucks, and don't care what crap they are selling, there are countries where the host gets sued for the content they broadcast, inappropriate content, misleading content or scams etc.
GO JOE 👍🇺🇸
$12 plus $48 mandatory shipping. So $60 drone not twelve. Huge shipping fees are the new AliExpress grift
12:40 “Oh! No you don’t! No! Ow!”
Instantly earned a subscription. Great review of a conspicuous scam!
4:23 I got a Mavic Mini and I can positively confirm this type of crash will destroy the rotors.
It's the equivalent of about 40$ in legit online stores around here, marketed as a toy for children. Listed specs are: 2Mpx camera, 9 minutes autonomy, 100m range, 500mAh battery and a microSD slot (card not included).
That sounds like a really neat toy for the right kid, and honestly not too bad if you’re just messing around.
$40*
Yeah, I had one, it was alright but had zero wind resistance, not even 5mph
It's atound 20$ where i livr
@@imdyinginside1919 $20*
It's scary to think people fall for scams like these.
You're also thinking that these people vote, too, aren't you?
@@h8GW ofc
@@h8GW Now, that's seriously scary. Really concerning.
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Can't believe how gullible alphabet/youtube are!!!!
I remember buying one of these on eBay for like $20 to practice before buying a more expensive drone. It was a lot of fun until it caught a breeze and flew into the void.
lol
Since you had fun, it was well worth $20 I trust? You can't get a lot for $20 these days anyway. (other than half way decent china made tools from Harbor Freigt). LOL
Krazy Ken your reviews are great. Please do a review on the cordless mini vac/blower. I saw a number of these lately.
I think when you ask at @03:45 if there is anything wrong with these two ad: Yes, It was a pre ad video on RUclips where 70% of ads are scams and Google should pay financial compensation and held liable to everyone that has been scammed for not vetting their clients and being a tech company not using AI to detect a scam advert.
All they care about is whether they were paid or not. The consumer may take it up with their complaint manager, Helen Hades.
I love people like you that are MythBusters and expose these corrupt companies thank you very much
Great video, Ken. I'm glad you're shining a light on these things that trick people. I worry about my mom who's getting up there in age, and she's preyed upon often by scammers.
I'm broke, may I have her email to commence the scams? Lmao
If your age is on the socket, you are too old to be emptying your pocket!
I actually got one of these for free, and i admit, i do like flying it from time to time. They didn’t lie about it being able to fly lol.
It is flying, so that means gooood 👍 who cares that everything else is crap 🤣😂 right❓ Hehe, at least Ken got it, made cool video and video is way bether than having that drone even for free 🤣. Take care everyone 😁
It worth $12 for sure
Bought one years ago when it was a bit more expensive and it made a nice messing around gift, but only if you buy it more directly from one of the Chinese sellers rather than via a scammy dropshipper
@@bosstowndynamics5488 Scammy shitdropper would be even more accurate.
Ah yes, the literal minimum.
I'm in Thailand at the moment and their Ali Express is called Lazada and that Drone now comes with 2 cameras (including the front mounted one offering 4K resolution) is going for between US$8-US$20 depending who you buy from and is listed as the E88 Pro Drone.
But RUclips insists we must watch these scan ads. Kind of tells you who RUclips really is.
I wanna see "light bulb security cameras" next after seeing an ad for one while this video loaded
I'm looking into those, too!
If it had a slightly better camera and local recording and was $30 I'd probably buy one for use in property inspections. A drone that can help you inspect a house roof, while being cheap enough that you could abandon it if it got stuck in a tall tree, is potentially useful.
I'm sure those kinds exist.
Yeah that exists, its called the Eachine e58, its got a SD card slot, has tons of spares available, and is pretty cheap. I used one before. If you want one with GPS, get a 4drc f11.
Get a REAL drone for property inspection.
DJI
@@TicTac-g7m If you were inspecting a large tract of land or taking publicity photos for real estate or something, I'd go with a DJI drone. For the purposes of my former line of work, anything made by DJI is going to be too expensive and valuable to risk, or too large to go where it will sometimes need to go. Sometimes we needed drones that could fly indoors where it didn't matter too much if unauthorised occupants broke them.
@@3rdalbum You're gonna have to inspect the roof a lot of times with all these $20 drones crashing on it.
I really suggest getting one of these, iv got 2 of them and they are the most "fun" drones I have. As much as this vid is about the sales scam the actual drones when bought for the right price are a good laugh. Here in the UK i paid £20 for 2 of these both of which came in there own carry case with spare props and 3 battries. Battary life is not great, but with 3 its not a problem and they charge quite quickly so not to long to wait if you still want to play with it. They are also pretty stable to fly although they do drift alot, but the big bonus that Ken never mentioned which makes them so much fun (especialy for kids to play with) is that they have a button on the remote to make them do diffrent flips in the air and as pointed out they are so light they just dont break when crashed so you can mess about with no worries of damaging it. Also, provided you did not buy through a scam page, they are so cheap you just dont care if it gets bashed.
1:42 this also kind of looks like the DJI fly app. It’s like they’re stealing footage.
What really makes me angry is - in Germany Ads like this are not legal but RUclips takes forever to remove them if you make a complaint (should be easy for ai to recognize s**** like this) but oh wonder some small youtube does some little thing: Strike in 5 seconds.
The fact that _everything_ that IS on it works... is amazing. Its like making pizza with filo sheets, thinned potted meat, V8, a spray bottle of cream and producing an actual paper thin pizza flavored and pizza looking thing!
Also the SkyQuad did have crash detection, but later in the video it crashes in to a tree. Nice.
yes, but Ken mentioned that the drone crashing into the tree was a completely different model.
ITS A FAKE POINT BLANK. NO CRASH DETECTION, FLIMSY CONSTRUCTION.
PLEASE TELL ME YOU DIDNT SEE THE TWO DIFFERENT DRONES?
@@mattmurphy7030 I'm not I'm typing, typing is read not heard.
@@unicornjennie don't know what you mean.. can't hear your words written in my head....
@@mattmurphy7030 caps is adamant or stern, bold caps is yelling
5:36 on the AliExpress page there are two color variants can be selected, and the currently selected has a Color: 1080P. Isn't the resolution 1080P? No, the color! So tragicomically funny, I love it!
I've seen that ad so many times. Thank you for debunking this.
A $12 drone, if it flies at all, sounds like a pretty good deal to get for a kid.
Yes in fact if you watch youtubers who review drones some of them recommend these cheap drones as way to learn to fly. Kind of mind boggling how they can put together this drone, package it and ship it for just $20.
It wouldn't surprise me if the camera system was genuinely pulling 720p off the sensor and trying to stream that to the app, it's just that 720p with a really low bitrate captured on an ultra cheap sensor looks way worse than standard definition with a decent bitrate on a decent sensor
If you watch the video closely, even the seller on Aliexpress says it's a 480p (SD) resolution, which most likely drop even further when it only can stream and not being loaded into a memory card.
These types of video are becoming more valuable by the day. So many people getting caught out by things and will believe what the 'read' in the marketing stuff. Most people who will watch the channel recognise that and recognise the stupid-ness of some of the claims but....not everyone, sadly :(
I watched their ad once and I was instantly skeptical.
It's sad to say but a lot of ads on RUclips are scams. Thank you for making this video.
Skeptical 😂
Yeah...RUclips needs to regulate that crap better.
That camera brought me back to myspace days.😂
The nerd inside me jumps out every time u upload 💗
Thank you ❤️
Upon initial look at the drone, I'm honestly shocked it didn't shatter when it hit something.
Fortunately, just this once, being cheap and lightweight actually helps here.
@@blakksheep736 Not always at all.
@@TicTac-g7m I didn't say always.
7:54 Even the logo of the 2 brands are same😂
with ads and promotion like this falling for it is essentially failing an IQ test
*We live in a country where 94% of teens can't find Washington DC in a line map. THEY can't even find AMERICA on a world line map!!!*
You know what's crazy. This stuff goes on all the time. People buy stuff off the AliExpress and Alibaba and sell it for stupid prices in America because nobody (compared to how many who do) checks those websites for stuff like this. This just has a whole song and dance tied to it.
I use a drone for various photography things (DJI Mini 3 pro) and will often get people coming up to me to say they have a drone too but can't make it hover like that or record the kind of 4k quality. When pressed, they often say that they only paid this amount for a drone and then can't get over the price I paid for mine (some have even said I've been scammed because I could have bought "one of the drones that are under £100").
The fact that it took off actually impressed me, though that was short lived with the battery then dying without warning =D.
I actually have a newer model but not from these guys and mine can actually stay stable in flight and warns you when the battery is dying. The cameras are shit, yes cameras the second camera is pointing forward and doubles as an optical flow sensor. No GPS though.
I have that drone! It's nearly impossible to control. . . The antennae on the controller are fake, I removed them as they are useless.
I'm glad to see you buy this. I kept seeing these scam ads and RUclips was more than happy to take that advertising dollars while viewers get scammed.
There would be one use for these. Drone skeet shooting. Buy in bulk from the manufacturer then fly them at a shotgun range for people to try blasting out of the air. The poor flying of them would make it harder.
Love your videos Dave. I hope there is a law that puts these people behind bars for misleading.
i bought something very similar in 2018 for like $7 off aliexpress, and for 7 bucks it was pretty good lol
Whatever. Cheap scam drones suck.
Yup, these days it will cost you around $20 for "E88 pro" drone. Not bad if you are just trying to learn how to fly a drone in a park. Not a big deal if it crashes either.
9:41 “oh no!”
9:46 The offer is going to end in 3… 2… 1…
9:50 *reverts to 6 minutes and 30 seconds*
9:51 NeverMind.
I don't understand how these companies are allowed to do business in the US.
JUST remember folks , if it sounds TOOOOOOO good to be true IT PROBABLY IS !!!!!!! Thanks for confirming every suspicion I had about that drone !!!! I'm usually a sucker for these kinda things and luckily I didnt get sucked in this time ! Thanks
Scam at $99... But is it worth the $12 price if I have an Ali Express account ?
Stocking Stuffers for children ?
Pretty sure one of the first drones it shows it a DJI Inspire. I believe it was near a volcano or mountain or something. Also, it then switched to an FPV drone which the inspire, mavic, autel evo, and most commercially available drones are not. That being said DJI does sell an FPV drone so they can rip that one off next!
I love this guy: Not only is this information useful but completely entertaining!
I got that exact drone but with different logos for $30 on AliExpress like 3 years ago
I have a similar folding drone that came from aliexpress also. And I enjoy it very much :)
It was about 100 dollars 3 years ago. It has a memory card slot inside the aircraft, the app shows the battery percentage of the aircraft, and it has GPS, follow mode, map mode, crash sensors, altitude meter, and a cool(also real) 1080p cam. It is the CSJ s167 GPS drone by the way.
Yes S167 drone appear to be nice drone (at least according to description), way better than bottom tier mavic clones. But I don't see SD card slot as being a feature. It's a shame that most cheaper drones these days don't come with SD card slot.
@@coldspring22 SD card slot is in the camera module. Not easy to access, though. That is why I don't remove it. I transfer the videos over wifi instead.
It's nice to see a new scam video. Loved the Ashen's reference.
I could have done without the motion sickness from the crappy drone footage.😁
I thought I recognized that assembly line footage at 2:46, and yeah, it's stolen from Valve. As in the-people-who-make-Steam Valve.
Here's the original source, their "Building the Steam Controller" video, which shows them creating the assembly line for the device. If you look closely, you can actually see the Aperture Laboratories logo on the machinery!
ruclips.net/video/uCgnWqoP4MM/видео.html
I recently encountered an obvious scam site claiming to sell $700 pool table sets for $59 with free shipping. It had a 5 minute timer for how much longer the "sale" would last. Just for sh*ts and giggles I let the timer run out just to see if anything would happen. Sure enough, just like this one, it hit zero and reset to 5 minutes. I guess they liked me enough to extend the sale. What a great company!
As an FPV Drone Pilot myself, this was a really fun episode!
Brilliant research 👌🏼
For £12 tho I’d say it’s probably worth it
Great stocking filler for Christmas
If you get it from Ali express in time for Christmas that is
That's ~ U$12.50 or ~ £ 10.50 at today's rate... 😲
@@syxepop I'll give you $12.50 for TEN actual Pounds Sterling !!
@@TIMEtoRIDE900 Sirrrr you got yourself a deal!
Ah, yes. Another fine scam busting episode by Ken. And this time on something that needs a lot of precision or it'll just straight up not work.
I'm surprised this investigation lasted almost 20 minutes.
How lazy are these scammers to *always* pull the "WE'RE UNDERMINING THE BIG X INDUSTRY!", like just admit the project!
This is fabulous, Ken!
You're as funny as the late night comedians 🙂
This is an unbelievable POS. How could Alibaba sell them for $12, even in large quantities?
"That's just S-tier, how do you even get those skills man?!?" line alone made me subscribe; Great vid, thanks for the exposé
I bought one of these from aliexpress about 3 years ago just for fun, who knew I had a military spec drone lol
Thanks for exposing a scam.
For anyone wondering,this is the micro foldable drone set 998 pro.
For a while I was getting bombarded by ads for these flying junk piles. As a long time drone pilot, I have been using DJI products for the last several years. They are pretty much flawless and pack a lot of technology into small packages with great results. As you said, you get what you pay for. I don't think I would even buy one of these pieces of crap for my 11 year old grandson. The video from his toy drone is better than one of these. I too looked closely at the videos I was sent on these things and noticed the ripoff of DJI products and logos. Even at $12, they're still a waste of money.
You're done a great service to RUclips community.Thanks
You are a legend for doing this and “1080p is so cool!” 😉
I know someone who bought one of these and they said they liked it was in All American company and I kept my mouth shut about the fact that it was made in China for $12. He paid $83 on sale for it. I told him that he should just buy a DJI for $600 with the warranty and crash protection and the store he bought it from walked him through how to use everything. Plus for only $35 a visit he can bring it back for help with things like updating firmware and replacing blades or replacing parts that have broken in a crash. Overall he's happy and thought it was worth the money.
Long story short, just buy a DJI and you won't regret it
An ad made with an AI program told to find drone footage and make a sales pitch?
I don't know anything about drones, but the thing that caught my ear was the part of the ad that talked about the patent ending. In the U.S., a patent is granted for a period of 20 years. I doubt that a patent for something as lucrative as a consumer drone would be allowed to just expire. Also, from what I could find in a few minutes of research, there are many patents out there from various companies so the story of a patent "expiring" doesn't make any sense.
In 2018 I purchased an Eachine E58 from Banggood for around $85 it was never marketed like the Skyquad, I crashed it broke things and the FPV experience was not good as the video was awful. But I had fun with it then moved on to better drones. When I saw these ads appear on RUclips advertising I thought I hope nobody buys these. There's an old saying if its too good to be true then give it a big miss.
I picked one of these up for £3 from Temu the other week, for that price it's really good. It's way better than my old £60 cheap drone..actually hovers pretty stable!
13:26 technically even lasers could be considered military technology technically some military Technologies that were worth $5,000.20 years ago are worth like 20 cents now
Are you telling me advertisers lie? Wow 😂
We shared this video rather than make our own on what a nightmare this product and its advertising is. Thanks!
asked my mom for a fpv drone for christmas…
now im here bruh, i think she even expected more from it 😂
dont get me wrong here, it is fun to fly, but the battery lasts about 10 minutes and wont fly straight even indoors, youll spend all your time adjusting the straightness and end up wasting the battery… the camera to phone situation is just streaming to the phone through the wifi and the phone records the footage, in another term: it sucks ass, impossible to fly it through the view on the camera and your shots recorded on it simply arent worth it, it cant even withstand the weight of a gopro either. It does do flips with the press of a button yet it is very uncontrollable
also, hover mode just rises it infinitely until u stop it, none of the phone buttons affect the drone, the back to home button sends it insanely fast toward the controller with no collision detection, the pathing system does n o t work whatsoever
this thing is terrible for what they said it holds.
After I bought my Air 2S, a coworker came to me super excited that he had just bought his own drone too. It was this exact one.
It was also in Bulgaria.Even in the ad they were showing 95% stuff shot with DJI drones.They also showed DJI drones quite a few times, jumping between maverick 1 and 2 to 3.And the ads either ended up showing their drone likeness or they didn't even show it.
Computer Clan You do a real service to the whole world community and I Thank you, Thank You.
Krazy Ken is one funny looking fellow w an equally funny way of presenting things. Love it!
I find your reviews so helpful and well done. What really bothers me is that RUclips is allowing this false advertising, but will censor someone or defund them for saying the truth about a topic that we all need to know the truth on. so go RUclips allow false advertising and stick it to the public. I’m surprised you haven’t been sued yet for telling the truth.