Last year, I ordered a 3LR in Dec 2022 to take advantage of the FBT Salary Sacrifice exemption. Then I walked away and forfeited the $350 order fee as I didn't feel I was ready. I remember it may have been around $82,000 and the package fortnightly out of pocket cost was $600.
In April 23 I tried again. I test drove the 3RWD three times and finally decided to order one. The salary package cost to me was $500 per fortnight and was happy. Telsa tried to offer me to test drive the 3P and I refused because I knew I would want one and it was over the luxury car limit. Along the way, I considered a BYD ATTO 3 but found out there are horrible and poorly built. I considered the Cupra Formentor VZe and was about to go on a test drive until the Telsa Advisor I have been speaking to rang me on 15 June 23 said 'just letting you know that a whole heap of 3Ps are about to drop on the website' and there are significant savings and free supercharging for 3 months if delivered before 30 June and it is under LCT. Needless to say I cancelled the Cupra appointment, test drove the 3P and ordered one a white one with black interior on 17 June for $85,784. A custom order was $91,626, so I thought a discount of $5,752 was awesome. The EDD was 20 June to 11 July. The Salary Packaging out of pocket cost was $601 per fortnight. I signed the Lease document, rego and all the information to be ready to settle.
Since I have an ICE car, I patiently waited and didn't really care when it arrived.
Come 1 July 23, I received a message saying that a $3,900 reduction has been applied across the entire range and my order was eligible. Subsequently I was issued with a new invoice for $81,986 and was over the moon. The Salary Packaging out of pocket cost was now reduced to $585 per fortnight. I had to re sign the new updated Lease document, rego and and delivery date was 13 Jul 23. We were ready to settle.
On 7 July 23, I received a message saying that Telsa Referral Program had changed and I will get a further reduction of $750 and 3 months of the advanced self driving and the referrer will get 10,000 Telsa credits. Pre 30 June policy was that each person got 1500 referral credits. As a result, the updated invoice price was now $81,132, $764 less. So I sent the updated price to the Leasing company saying we need to re-sign the Lease document, rego and all the information to be ready to settle. S
In the end, the discounted price was $10,494 compared to a custom order prior to June 23.
So my delivery date on Thursday is now looking shaky as we need to get everything ready again. Telsa said I need to settle by 19 July which will be no worries.
But well worth it and no complaints. I feel for the people who custom ordered and collected prior to June and will pay $91,626 or those who had an existing inventory purchase and collected before 30 June and paid $85,784.