Both DJI pocket gimbal cameras that American buyers are not supposed to be able to get are sitting on Amazon.com right now. The standard Osmo Pocket 4 Essential Combo is listed at $689 with delivery inside a week. The dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4P, which DJI launches worldwide tomorrow morning and which has never had a US release path, is listed at $980 with an August 17 to 26 delivery window.

Neither listing comes from DJI. Neither comes from Amazon itself. Both come from third-party marketplace sellers moving imported stock, the same pattern DroneXL has been tracking through every DJI product blocked since the FCC added the company to its Covered List on December 22, 2025.

The prices are where this gets interesting. DJI put the 4P’s global opening price at £529 in a statement to Bloomberg this morning, about $704. The Amazon listing wants $276 more than that for a camera that ships three weeks out.

The Pocket 4 listing carries a 21 percent US premium

The Osmo Pocket 4 Essential Combo is the entry tier of DJI’s lineup, containing the camera, a threaded handle and a carrying pouch, with the gimbal clamp reserved for the Standard and Creator kits. DJI prices it at £429 in the UK. Using the same conversion DJI’s own spokesperson applied to the 4P this morning, that lands near $571.

Amazon’s US listing sits at $689. Free delivery runs August 2 to 3, which means the units are already inside the country. The product page shows 4.3 stars across 706 ratings and a #1 New Release badge in Camcorder Bundles. Those ratings belong to the product, not the seller, and the two are worth separating before you click buy.

This is the playbook DroneXL watched run in real time when Mini 5 Pro units started shipping fast from Amazon in October 2025 while official channels sat empty. Here is what makes the Pocket 4 version stranger. Amazon sells the same Essential Combo directly in Canada and the United Kingdom, shipped and sold by Amazon itself. In the United States, it is available only through a marketplace seller, because the camera shipped in April with no American release.

The seller rating on the Pocket 4 listing leaves out its three worst reviews

PH2 Force, the seller behind the $689 listing, displays a 96 percent positive rating over the last 12 months and a 4.9 out of 5 average. Both figures rest on 24 ratings, which is a thin sample for a $689 camera and worth understanding before you treat the number as reassurance.

Open the storefront and the arithmetic gets stranger. The rating histogram shows zero percent at one star. Directly beside it, the page displays three one-star reviews, dated February 14, February 21 and March 5, 2026, each rendered with a line struck through the text and a note from Amazon stating that the item was fulfilled by Amazon and that Amazon takes responsibility for the experience. Complaints about wrong items and wrong sizes are visible on the page but absent from the score.

That is Amazon’s system working as designed, since fulfillment errors are Amazon’s fault rather than the seller’s. It also means the headline 96 percent measures a narrower thing than most buyers assume.

One more detail is worth your attention. The storefront describes itself as a specialty store for genuine DJI gear, “sourced directly from DJI’s authorized supply chain.” One of the struck reviews concerns an order of mouse repellent tablets. A general reseller that also carries DJI stock is a perfectly legitimate business, but it is not the same thing as the storefront copy suggests, and the supply chain claim is the seller’s own assertion rather than anything DJI has confirmed.

The 4P listing carries warning signs the Pocket 4 listing does not

The Osmo Pocket 4P listing at $980 is titled “for DJI Osmo Pocket Four Pro(4P) Standard Combo Handheld Stabilizer 103GB,” and the brand field reads SECUREX rather than DJI. The color field says Pink for a graphite camera. The compatibility field names the Insta360 Luna Ultra, a competing product. Set against the £529 opening price DJI gave Bloomberg this morning, the listing is asking a 39 percent premium.

The seller is Themenshop, and the listing carries a single review. DroneXL has not reviewed that storefront’s feedback history, so run the same check described above: tap the seller name, open the storefront, and read the 12-month positive percentage alongside any struck-through reviews sitting underneath it.

The listing also states plainly that the device has been activated prior to export in compliance with local regulatory requirements in the country of origin. That is a Chinese-market unit that has already been through first activation before it reaches you. The hardware specs on the page do match DJI’s published sheet, including the 1-inch main sensor, the f/1.8 telephoto with 3x optical zoom, 4K/240fps on the wide lens, 103GB of internal storage and the roughly 230-gram body, all of which DroneXL documented when the 4P went on sale in China on June 15.

Neither camera comes with US warranty coverage

Buying either of these means buying without manufacturer support. When the O4 Wide Air Unit skipped the US market in June, DroneXL verified that DJI’s own support documentation listed after-sales service as unavailable in the United States and Puerto Rico for that product. Nothing about the Pocket 4 or 4P situation suggests a different outcome, and no DJI documentation promises one.

A grey-import Pocket 4 or 4P that develops a gimbal fault is your problem, not DJI’s. Amazon’s A-to-z Guarantee and the seller’s 30-day return window are the only real protection on these purchases, which is what makes the seller storefront worth more of your attention than the product star rating.

DroneXL’s Take

The Covered List was sold as a national security measure. Look at what it actually produced. The hardware still crosses the border. Americans still buy it. What changed is that the margin now goes to import arbitrageurs instead of DJI and US camera retailers, the buyer surrenders warranty coverage and service, and the entire burden of due diligence lands on a vlogger squinting at a 24-rating storefront trying to work out whether the struck-through reviews count.

That is a worse outcome for the American creator on every axis that matters, and it is precisely what DroneXL argued would happen when the FCC deadline passed in December. This is a handheld camera. It does not fly. It has no flight controller, no geofencing, no airspace footprint. If there is a security theory under which a wedding videographer in Poughkeepsie must pay $980 for a $704 gimbal from a seller whose entire recent feedback history fits on one screen, nobody at the FCC has written it down.

My advice on the 4P listing specifically: do not click buy today. DJI’s global launch happens tomorrow at 12:00 GMT, and the moment official pricing goes live outside the US, the import math changes for everyone shipping in. Watch what these two listings do in the 72 hours after that launch. A seller asking a 39 percent premium the day before a global price drops is betting you did not check.

The Pocket 4 at $689 remains the more defensible of the two. It is in the country and ships this week, and the premium over UK retail is roughly what an importer needs to make the trip worth taking.

Sources: Bloomberg, Amazon.com product and seller listings, DJI.

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