Hi all, thought I'd chime in. There's no update really, other than Tesla have so far been entirely closed to the idea of any form of licencing agreement, that we'd very happily take up. Not surprising, and so far we've not been able to get Elon's attention via various channels, including Twitter. The community has been great, and of course, TMC is literally
where we started with the FobPockets.
We'll keep plugging away, and will fill the inventory gaps with other great products. It sucks, obviously, but it's not the end of the world. As others have said, going after the US-based sellers that have been around for years doesn't solve the problem, it just means that the gap will get filled by inferior products from no-name no-warranty companies, like the catchily-named "rpqbmy store" above! The same problem exists on Amazon, as one store is taken down, another springs up; it's all automated, and impossible to really keep up with.
We've had many suggestions on how to get around the issue, i.e. by selling "LEAST" emblems (it's up to you how to re-order the letters!), but in our mind that's gaming the system, and aside from being tiring and morally questionable, it's just not the direction we want to go with the company that got us started, and that we love. So it might be a long road ahead, but we'll keep trying to find someone that's interested in talking about an agreement of some sort.
As many have noticed, a lot of things sold out really quickly. The order volume after the first email went out easily exceeded Black Friday/Cyber Monday, so, it's been a mental few days. We're catching up every day, but give us a couple of extra days to ship your order. By next week we'll be back to the usual same/next day dispatch. In some cases we didn't have enough stock to fill the order; if that's the case, and as long as you've not ordered ten of something, then we'll make sure we get enough stock to finish those orders, and anyone else that hit the notify option on the product pages.
Onwards!
