Sorry about the assumptions I am looking for any kind of handout here. Here is my situation - yours may be different and your mileage may vary...
I don’t typically jump into blogs or have time to keep up with Elon’s tweets. Typically I receive communication from Tesla via the phone app, my MS and email. That being said, all I did was log into my car portal last night where I saw the price of $2,000 for self drive. There was no notice that this was a special deal or that the pricing was due to expire. I had heard Tesla had a new pricing structure and I thought this was part of it. I didn’t even think about if I would buy it. It was a no brainer but I wanted to speak about it with my wife before I made a $2,000 purchase. By the time I caught up with her it was late so I planned on just making the purchase in the morning. By then the price had changed.
Here is my concern (and again please forgive me for being a lowly bottom feeder who doesn’t live on these boards and only wants something I don’t deserve). Tesla had posted no notice of any kind that the price was changing, that this was a temporary price reduction or that the price would be increasing antwher on the page where you can purchase this product. As an average consumer how would I even be expected to anticipate this possibility? Yes prices change but who would expect a 250% price increase overnight? If I had known (and again my apologies for not living on social media) I would have purchased it immediatey. So my gripe is not that the price went back up but that Tesla didn’t indicate the current pricing was a special or temporary condition. I was there, I could have bought it on the spot and would have if I had all the info but they weren’t up front on their official web site about what was going on with this product. That is deceptive in my mind. You may think that is cool and so Elon but in reality it is abrasive. That is what I mean by Tesla doing the right thing. Secret blog sales are only bound to antagonize customers who discover them too late and miss out. Tesla can handle this any way they want but since they weren’t truthful about what was going on at the point of sale, the right thing would be to work with customers who have already purchased a very expensive product in a case like this where THEY weren’t clear about their product pricing. This is my third MS (85D, 90D and P100DI) and I have been with Tesla since 2014. I have supported them. It just would have been nice for them to give all their customers the ability to take advantage of something like this.
