Hello,
Hoping for some advice. Last June my wife and I got all excited about the new S, so we sold her performance 3 and ordered the S. We planned to share my Y for a few months while we waited. The original delivery estimate was Sept/Oct but like everyone else it got pushed way back, now to January. Sharing a car with our work/life schedule just became too much of a pain and we started to waiver on the decision. Finally, she gave up and said let’s just get another performance 3, so we did. She loves it.
Now I’m here with our 2 Tesla’s and an order for a white-on-white S long range at $15k under the current Tesla asking price. Seems like just cancelling my order is a bad move and that I should either purchase the car to resell it or try to transfer the reservation. My order price is $82k and after taxes and fees it comes to just under $90k. If I buy it at that price, is it a super safe bet that I can sell it for at least $95k? I keep seeing ads posted for these cars with some crazy prices but not sure if they are selling for those prices.
Same thing for the reservation transfer. Lots of ads out there but unclear of the process. We ordered through our original model 3 account and have our info uploaded to the S order. Our other cars have their own accounts. I can turn the user ID and PW over to someone but how do they get Tesla to swap my name and info out for theirs? Do I just need to find someone at Tesla that will hook us up? I can’t imagine the company wants this type of thing to happen.
Seems like the safe route is to buy the car then sell and hope to get around the current MSRP. Who knows, maybe they raise it another 5K in the next few months. The easier thing for me would be to just sell my account/reservation to someone and let them figure it out with Tesla. Lots of talk about this issue on the forum and ads on craigslist for reservation transfers but I haven’t seen much about how things worked out.
If you were in my spot, what would you do? Thanks
Hoping for some advice. Last June my wife and I got all excited about the new S, so we sold her performance 3 and ordered the S. We planned to share my Y for a few months while we waited. The original delivery estimate was Sept/Oct but like everyone else it got pushed way back, now to January. Sharing a car with our work/life schedule just became too much of a pain and we started to waiver on the decision. Finally, she gave up and said let’s just get another performance 3, so we did. She loves it.
Now I’m here with our 2 Tesla’s and an order for a white-on-white S long range at $15k under the current Tesla asking price. Seems like just cancelling my order is a bad move and that I should either purchase the car to resell it or try to transfer the reservation. My order price is $82k and after taxes and fees it comes to just under $90k. If I buy it at that price, is it a super safe bet that I can sell it for at least $95k? I keep seeing ads posted for these cars with some crazy prices but not sure if they are selling for those prices.
Same thing for the reservation transfer. Lots of ads out there but unclear of the process. We ordered through our original model 3 account and have our info uploaded to the S order. Our other cars have their own accounts. I can turn the user ID and PW over to someone but how do they get Tesla to swap my name and info out for theirs? Do I just need to find someone at Tesla that will hook us up? I can’t imagine the company wants this type of thing to happen.
Seems like the safe route is to buy the car then sell and hope to get around the current MSRP. Who knows, maybe they raise it another 5K in the next few months. The easier thing for me would be to just sell my account/reservation to someone and let them figure it out with Tesla. Lots of talk about this issue on the forum and ads on craigslist for reservation transfers but I haven’t seen much about how things worked out.
If you were in my spot, what would you do? Thanks