Are you reserving at the reveal, at a store, or online?

[eisbock]

How does this work in states where Tesla is not licensed to sell cars?

In Connecticut, you can get your car serviced, but that's it. You can't buy a car and you can't ask any sales/financing questions (well, you can, but you won't get any answers). You can go to the fast food joint next door and buy your car there, but apparently you can't do it at the service center.

So I guess I already answered my question, but I'm assuming nobody will be lining up at the Milford center to reserve their Model 3?

 

[Muaddid]

Well you arent buying the car on the 31st, you are reserving a spot ... maybe there's room for that (legally) ?

 

[tinm]

How will Tesla decide who to invite to the reveal? Who gets picked?

Since New Mexico is one of those nasty states p0wn3d by the oil/gas/car-dealer cartel, Tesla is banned from operating any stores or service centers. So I'd have to drive 9 hours to the nearest store. I'd rather go to the reveal!

 

[bigbear]

Can they take reservations at galleries (ie stores in Texas)?

Let us know if you hear anything

 

[jgs]

If I had a store nearer than four hours away, I'd do it at a store, but as it is I'll do it online. I wonder if making online reservations wait 24 hours is a subtle way of penalizing anti-Tesla states, or rewarding pro-Tesla states if you prefer to look at it that way, or if there was some unrelated reason for the decision.

 

[tga]

If I had a store nearer than four hours away, I'd do it at a store, but as it is I'll do it online. I wonder if making online reservations wait 24 hours is a subtle way of penalizing anti-Tesla states, or rewarding pro-Tesla states if you prefer to look at it that way, or if there was some unrelated reason for the decision.

I think it's to publicize demand (and subtle marketing) by (hopefully) showing lines at the stores.

 

[tracksyde]

Can they take reservations at galleries (ie stores in Texas)?

Model 3: $1000 reservation - Page 4

That post, by someone in Texas, says that the galleries will be accepting deposits

 

[physicsfita]

If I had a store nearer than four hours away, I'd do it at a store, but as it is I'll do it online. I wonder if making online reservations wait 24 hours is a subtle way of penalizing anti-Tesla states, or rewarding pro-Tesla states if you prefer to look at it that way, or if there was some unrelated reason for the decision.

+1

No way I could go to the reveal, even if Tesla thought enough of me to send an invite -- I couldn't get a flight out in time. I am free on Friday to drive to Cleveland, but that seems like a really long trip and the somewhat lower deli number probably won't help that much since I suspect Tesla will be more likely to ship mostly to California at first, if history is any guide. I suspect it will be a while before they get around to less-than-full-spec cars going to states with whom Tesla does not have good relations. :frown:

EDIT: Just read Musk's tweet more carefully -- I can't make it from work to the store before it closes on the 31st anyway, so online it is!

 

[vjason]

Since I have a local showroom, that means I can reserve a day early. In store reservation for me on March 31.

 

[Trips]

So I asked for the in store presale and EM made it happen. Now my question will be if all the stores have a 10am opening time, does that mean the West Coast buyers will be starting 3 hours after the East Coast?

 

[jkk_]

Can you edit the poll and add option "Don't reserve now but wait for the product start rolling out of production" ?

 

[Az_Rael]

I am definitely doing online. I do have a store relatively near me down in the LA area, but I am working night shift on the 31st so won't be able to go down. Don't really want to deal with the lines anyways.

I am hoping that the prices will be such that mine will be considered "highly optioned" so it won't matter so much that I reserved the next day. (I.e, I will jump ahead of folks who ordered the base model in the store)

 

[S'toon]

The nearest store to here is over 600km/380miles from here. Doable as a drive, but I have other things to do with my life that day. So, it'll be online for me.

 

[Vic_F]

Emailed local advisor and they do not yet have a clue on how in store will be done. If I get an update from them I will post.

 

[JRP3]

Can you edit the poll and add option "Don't reserve now but wait for the product start rolling out of production" ?

I'm trying to get an idea of the initial demand right after the release, specifically the percentage of people actually going to a store to reserve.

 

[strider]

Can they take reservations at galleries (ie stores in Texas)?

They'll direct you to one of their internet-connected computers and you will effectively reserve on-line and give your credit card info to Tesla in California. This is how they do all orders in no-sale states.

 

[gaswalla]

Why do on line reservations have to start on April's Fools Day?

 

[bigbear]

They'll direct you to one of their internet-connected computers and you will effectively reserve on-line and give your credit card info to Tesla in California. This is how they do all orders in no-sale states.

Well, that's boring but at least it saves me time.

 

[gg_got_a_tesla]

Great timing for all this for me during spring break week: I'd have to drive down 40 miles from the north shore to the Tesla Honolulu store (oh, the horror!) - I hope to run into some of our fine friends from the Hawaii Tesla Owners' Club in a small queue there.

 

[Johann Koeber]

Let's hope the European stores will have the capability to take reservations on March 31. I wonder at what time? After the reveal in California it might be closed for the night due to time zone.