DJI’s back-to-back Osmo Pocket 3 price hikes take it from $519 to $799 in two months
- DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 camera has seen two consecutive price hikes in just two months, increasing from $519 to $799.
- The price increase represents a 54% jump, making it harder for the company to recommend the product.
- DJI attributes the price hike to various factors, including tariffs on China, but doesn’t specify which ones are the primary cause.
- The “Creator Combo” kit, which includes accessories like a modular battery handle and wireless microphone, has also seen a significant price increase, rising from $669 to $979.
- DJI’s spokesperson says that the new prices are the current list prices and that US retailers have already updated their listings to reflect the changes.
We’ve called DJI’s baby steadicam “almost everything I wanted my iPhone camera to be” and one of our favorite gadgets of 2023, but it’s just become a harder product to recommend. In April, DJI quietly hiked the US price of the camera from $519 to $619. Now, DJI has hiked the price again, officially listing the camera at $799 in the US.
That’s a $280 price hike in just two months, a 54 percent increase, and the company says it’s not a mistake. “The price you saw today is the current price,” DJI spokesperson Daisy Kong tells The Verge. We’re seeing that US retailers have already updated their listings.
DJI’s “Creator Combo” has risen in price even more. The kit, which adds loads of useful accessories including a modular extended battery handle and one of the company’s excellent Mic 2 wireless lav microphones, is now listed at $979, up from the original $669 list price it had maintained before April. (It quietly rose to $799 around the beginning of April.)
Is this the impact of Trump’s tariffs on China? DJI is a Chinese company, after all, but it says things aren’t as clear-cut as that. Tariffs “are certainly among the key considerations,” the company tells The Verge by email, but …
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