• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    I still don’t get why people buy Tesla products. You know what they’re like now. What are you doing?

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        10 months ago

        Personally, I’d never buy a Tesla because of how much of a pain they are to get repaired. Have to go to their service centers. You can’t just go to some local repair place.

        The nearest local center to me is about a 2-hour drive away. So firstly the car needs to function enough to actually get to the repair center, and then secondly I’m stuck there until they fix the car or I get a pickup to come home. Meanwhile, practically every other car I can just take to a local place and walk back home in 10 minutes.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t feel embarrassed but when I bought mine it was far and away the best value. Now there’s many more options and teslas are priced way higher than them. I’ve tried out a couple of them and my next car probably won’t be a Tesla due to price more than anything.

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          10 months ago

          I’m curious what you’ve looked at? In New England and as a snowboarder, AWD and high range are both requirements and I’m not seeing anything cheaper than the Model 3 unfortunately.

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            10 months ago

            I am in Canada and at the time I hadn’t skied before so that wasn’t a concern. But there was the leaf and the bolt really were the only 2 other available cars. And the base model 3 was only about 3-5k more than the others and it had a better range and the supercharger network so for me it made no sense to get anything besides the model 3

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    10 months ago

    “You won’t own anything, and you’ll like it.”

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    10 months ago

    I really do not care - Musk and Cybertruck are way overrepresented here

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    10 months ago

    after submitting a $122,135 order

    The buyer told us that he paid a $250 order fee on Friday and previously paid a $100 reservation fee.

    Tesla doesn’t have to refund those types of fees if a buyer cancels

    You have to pay $350 to get the privilege to fork over a hundred and twenty grand? My jaw literally dropped.

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      10 months ago

      You forget we live in a society where we have bought tickets and raffles for the chance of being able to buy Air Jordans or Yeezys or w/e fuck shoe that did that.

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          10 months ago

          I’ve been wearing the same two pairs of shoes for about 4 years now. I thought one pair was failing earlier in the year, but the glue repair held and I’ve continued to wear them.

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    10 months ago

    I can’t wait to see one of these dumpster fires on the street. I need a good laugh!

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    10 months ago

    Are you able to return it if you dislike, or are you just fucked?

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        10 months ago

        If this is true, and people stupidly signed a contract stating as such, I have zero sympathy for them if they get sued. What a ridiculous stipulation.

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    10 months ago

    He backed off exactly enough for a couple consumers to notice he backed off and talk about it to a few people.

    Then went right back to it and nobody cared, because that’s the social media news cycle.

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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Tesla has revived a contract clause that says the electric carmaker could sue Cybertruck buyers for $50,000 or more if they resell during their first year of ownership.

    As we reported a month ago, the Cybertruck-only clause was added to the public version of Tesla’s Motor Vehicle Order Agreement Terms & Conditions and then deleted after the lawsuit threat attracted some attention.

    The clause says Cybertruck buyers must offer the car back to Tesla at a reduced price before any attempt to resell the vehicle within one year of delivery.

    "You agree that in the event you breach this provision, or Tesla has reasonable belief that you are about to breach this provision, Tesla may seek injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the Vehicle or demand liquidated damages from you in the amount of $50,000 or the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater.

    People who made early Cybertruck reservations received their invitations to order the limited-availability Foundation Series edition on Friday.

    As an Electrek article notes, it’s unclear whether the clause applies only to the Foundation Series version of the Cybertruck.


    The original article contains 545 words, the summary contains 190 words. Saved 65%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      So, offer the car back to Tesla at 1 cent under purchase price, then sell to whoever you like if they refuse to buy it…