Beware of the $100 that is not being credited on final contract

[mattack4000]

Heads up. During the final review of my loan contract, I noticed the $100 that I paid was not subtracted from the total listed on the page. Please make sure you pay your final amount $100 less of what they are charging or talk to them about it. The $100 credit is on the initial estimate, but not on the final contract. I am financing via Tesla, maybe it only applies to them. for others, watch out.

 

[ry-ballz]

This is normal.

 

[Mr. Burrito]

For me, the contract showed a total that included an additional charge of $100 but the amount they asked for (I payed cash) was $100 less. I made them update the amount on the contract and initial it so they couldn’t later try to come collect it.

 

[Stickboy46]

Heads up. During the final review of my loan contract, I noticed the $100 that I paid was not subtracted from the total listed on the page. Please make sure you pay your final amount $100 less of what they are charging or talk to them about it. The $100 credit is on the initial estimate, but not on the final contract. I am financing via Tesla, maybe it only applies to them. for others, watch out.

Mine has it in the customer deposit section. I'm picking up tomorrow and have the final MVPA.

 

[qdeathstar]

I thought the 100 was an order fee...

 

[OCR1]

There was a period of time where Tesla was not sure themselves whether it was a deposit or a fee. But based on the most recent comments from forum members it now appears that Tesla has clarified their policy and stated that it is a fee. So it essentially adds $100 to the price of the car.

 

[Stickboy46]

There was a period of time where Tesla was not sure themselves whether it was a deposit or a fee. But based on the most recent comments from forum members it now appears that Tesla has clarified their policy and stated that it is a fee. So it essentially adds $100 to the price of the car.

Not always true as I stated above. Mine was credited in the Customer Deposit section. That's for a delivery this week.

 

[Jay24]

Mine was listed as an order fee on my MVPA and increased my overall price by $100. Same way it was listed on the order agreement when I first placed my order. There was nothing that ever stated it was deposit or that it would be applied toward the purchase of the car.

 

[mattack4000]

No they have the $100 as an order fee on top of the price of the vehicle, that's fine, but they didn't take into the account that I paid it already.

If the car was $60K, the MVPA is $60100, my payment to them should be $60K because I paid the $100 already

 

[Purgatory]

I made a down payment of $10k and on the agreement it listed my down payment as $10,100 to reflect the order fee.

 

[mattack4000]

They said the finance page doesn’t reflect it, so don’t go by that. I should go off the total on the account page, that has the right total

 

[GhostTrigger]

Mine went through as a part of my down payment as well. Its listed as "order fee" on the MVPA but my downpayment includes the $100

 

[OCR1]

Mine went through as a part of my down payment as well. Its listed as "order fee" on the MVPA but my downpayment includes the $100

I’m not following what you are saying here.

If the MVPA shows an order fee of $100, and then it credits you the $100 that you paid for on your credit card, you are still being charged an additional $100 over and above the price of the car that was quoted on the web site. So it would be an order fee, not a deposit.

If the MVPA does not show an order fee but still credits the $100 toward the quoted price, then it would reflect being a deposit.

 

[GhostTrigger]

I’m not following what you are saying here.

If the MVPA shows an order fee of $100, and then it credits you the $100 that you paid for on your credit card, you are still being charged an additional $100 over and above the price of the car that was quoted on the web site. So it would be an order fee, not a deposit.

If the MVPA does not show an order fee but still credits the $100 toward the quoted price, then it would reflect being a deposit.

It doesn't show up as a credit or deposit for me necessarily. My down payment on the MVPA just includes an additional $100
So if total was 50,100, which includes the $100 fee, and I put in a $10,000 down payment, the down payment is showing up as $10,100 on my MVPA

 

[SlyOne]

Just FYI I had the order fee twice on mine. Once when ordering via credit card and once in the finance contract. No-one on the phone could figure it out went in to service center and they said it was a mistake and created as case for me. About 10 days later had $100 credit to my credit card.

This was December/January