rallykeeper
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Watching these forums, I find it quite odd to see all these statements and counter statements about being long or short on TSLA stock. Ins't it possible that some of us just want to have a conversations about the merits or demerits of a company's product and services without it devolving into accusations about benefiting from the company stock one way or the other. Sometimes our relationship with a company might be just about getting the fair value for a specific product purchase and the service thereof. No more and no less. More often than not, being an investor or a consumer have nothing to do with each other. There are many companies whose products I would gladly use but would never invest in that company and vice versa.
Agreed, but saying you are long is sometimes necessary.
Unfortunately around here, occasionally when you write something negative about Tesla the product, you are accused of being short TSLA the stock. You only have to look at the posts above to see evidence of that.
Those of us that post that we are long are simply trying to bat down the short accusation right away.
It seems to be that TSLA is rather unique when it comes to the intertwining of investment opinions and product opinions. Only AAPL seems to foster the same level of "enthusiasm". (E.g., I'm not sure I've ever seen a positive or negative discussion of PlayStations devolve into accusations of being short SNE; or Disney movies, Microsoft Windows, etc).