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I'm trying to decide whether to order a Model S now or wait for potential holiday discounts or incentives considering that Black Friday is right around the corner. Has Tesla offered incentives like this in previous holiday seasons?

In cases where a customer places an order, then at some point prior to delivery Tesla enacts a discount, have they historically allowed existing order holders in the deal?

I attempted to add a "?" to the post title after posting, as to not mislead anyone into this post by thinking Tesla IS offering black friday specials. The system doesn't seem to allow members to edit the title. Anyone know how to do this?
 
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You put a smile on my face with your optimism
But alas, they has never happened. You should have done this while the $1000 purchase credit code was still valid...
If I were you, I would order right now -using a referral code for free unlimited supercharging (I assume you already have one? - to get your Tesla still this year, and $7500 back from the IRS in a month or two.
Best, Mick
 
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If they change the price while custom orders are in the pipeline, they usually do give those orders the credit. When they dropped the 100D’s price in August, we got that change credited as a ‘Showroom Discount’. But there aren’t any ‘seasonal’ sales, as was mentioned.
 
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OP, absolutely do wait for end-of-quarter deals. They happen all the time.

History’s shown deals are had around EOQ. The whole “Tesla doesn’t do discounts” is a proven line of crap, and the “acid test” statement from Musk that was quoted above was in direct reference to the controversy over the 2016 EOQ3 fire sale, where brand new cars with the wrappers on them were seeing discounts of $10k+, inventory/loaner P90DLs with low miles for $30k off, and limited-time 2 year leasing where people were getting these P models for ~$7500 down and well under $1k a month.

Tesla doesn't really do discounts or specials. If you're thinking about ordering a car and want it, now is as good a time as any. I think if you order now you'll just squeak in before year-end.
I rarely ever throw disagree ratings around, but you sound like a straight up salesman right here. Or Elon Musk. Same thing.
 
Hello Mickie!
That's funny, reading a post from another Tesla owner with (almost) the same name as me, and from Chicago as well.
What are the odds...
I see you in your signature you have a 16' Refresh (6̶0̶)62D ? What does that mean? I bought a Tesla S75D about a year ago.

Best, Mick
 
Hello Mickie!
That's funny, reading a post from another Tesla owner with (almost) the same name as me, and from Chicago as well.
What are the odds...
I see you in your signature you have a 16' Refresh (6̶0̶)62D ? What does that mean? I bought a Tesla S75D about a year ago.

Best, Mick
Ha! Nice to meet ya.

A local Tesla prodigy determined that a locked 60 battery actually has 62 kWh of usable energy.

I should change mine to 72.5 or whatever he determined that to be, since I’ve unlocked it but am yet to receive the uncork.
 
"If you can't explain to a customer who paid full price why another customer didn't without being embarrassed, then it is not right. We either win in a way that is fair or right or we lose with our honor intact and accept the consequences."
Elon Musk

As far as I can tell, every new inventory Tesla Model S is currently discounted $3,000, even if they've never seen a showroom or a demo drive. Not sure if this is an extension of the Q3 discounts were announced just two months ago or a different promo. How is this not a "discount?"
Tesla offers ‘up to $30,000 showroom discounts’ and lowers interest rates to boost sales before end of the quarter

I appreciate all the feedback that Tesla hasn't previously offered holiday discounts. But as they did in Q3, they may do another EOQ discount Q4 which would coincide with the holidays. Tesla's decision whether or not to do a promo is a cost benefit decision. If a numbers boost is needed, how will it benefit them? How much will it cost them? If I was running Tesla and things were not going so well... cue the M3 bottle necks, "production hell," and missed guidance, I absolutely would consider some sort of promo to boost revenue and sales. Now to the cost part. If Tesla drops prices they also drop profit margins per unit which no one wants to do unless absolutely necessary...

Cue proposed Republican Congressional Tax Bill eliminating 2018 Federal EV incentives and you have a zero out of pocket cost (Tesla) sales incentive. The threat of loosing the tax benefit may force potential buyers to pull the trigger now. So maybe Tesla already has their Q4 "sales incentive" courtesy of House Republicans without trimming per unit profit margins.

If I order soon I'm almost sure capture the tax credit by taking delivery before 2018.

If I wait till close to EOQ4 End of the year, for some anticipated discount (that may never happen) but end up taking delivery in 2018 I could loose out on both the tax credit and the discount.

The adage: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" comes to mind.
 
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As far as I can tell, every new inventory Tesla Model S is currently discounted $3,000, even if they've never seen a showroom or a demo drive. Not sure if this is an extension of the Q3 discounts were announced just two months ago or a different promo. How is this not a "discount?"

I'm working with an OA right now on buying an inventory vehicle - just a basic S75. The ones offered to me have no discount associated to them, and they are actually still being built at the factory. I was advised I am better off with the factory S75, since any discounted showroom / demo stock at my price point would basically be the same thing. The discounted stock is usually upper tier, like the S100s.

If you're saying that I can get $3000 off of my S75 candidates, I'd like to know how!
 
I'm working with an OA right now on buying an inventory vehicle - just a basic S75. The ones offered to me have no discount associated to them, and they are actually still being built at the factory. I was advised I am better off with the factory S75, since any discounted showroom / demo stock at my price point would basically be the same thing. The discounted stock is usually upper tier, like the S100s. If you're saying that I can get $3000 off of my S75 candidates, I'd like to know how!

I should've written "every S100D" instead of "every Model S." I'm not even looking at the S75D because my trips need the range of the 100. I wish a S75 would work for me, it'd save me some dough!

Good luck with your purchase and your soon to be new Tesla!
 
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For a quick education consider visiting:
www.ev-cpo.com. And
www.teslainventory.com

Cliff notes of what I detail below is (ignoring any potential federal tax rebate elimination)..
1.).if you are going to custom order do it this week or wait until January.

2.) If you want to buy an inventory car wait a few weeks for the end of quarter sales. Inventory may mean show room model, service loaner, but very frequently means brand new never driven cars.


1.) Why custom order now or wait unitl January you ask....or I ask for you?
Tesla does not negotiate. Tesla does offer private and public incentives based on how the quarters sales numbers are looking. Reduced loan rates, lease specials, waived delivery-destination fees, etc. These are sometimes publicly shared or in my instance I would get a call or an email with some type of personal offer...always near the last month of the quarter.

Because of these incentives the demand on the factory sky rockets at the end of every quarter. from assemblers to the delivery specialist everyone at Tesla works overtime the last month of each quarter....and the quality plummets. Whatever modest incentive you might get is not worth risking getting an end of quarter build. It seems like every time there are cars with issues they are end of quarter VINs.

Historically on the first day of each quarter Tesla announces it's upgrades/new quarterly pricing. This has been true every quarter except this past quarter (when they announced the upgrades early on July 23 to coincide with the Model 3 release).

They make the upgrade announcemebts on the first day of each quarter to not cannibalize the previous quarter sales.

2.) Why wait to order an inventory car in a couple of weeks?
Tesla builds a lot of cars to go unsold /directly to inventory. Then they put them on sale at the end of each quarter.
Recent examples.... In August they dropped the price of every 90/P90. These were undriven factory fresh cars being offered $8-$24K less then sticker. The reason they did this became clear when they dropped the prices of inventory 100's a few weeks later.

I have been privately offered to waive the $2,000 inventory delivery fee at the end of several quarters.

As others mentioned there was the infamous $7,500 discount on all 75's at the end of Q3 2016. Secretly the $7,500 discount was also available on 60s too but was only advertised on 75's.

If you go this route be patient and be ready to pounce when the offers do come up because they are only temporary. Tesla will be doing an interior upgrade in an upcoming quarter and you can be certain there will be a fire sale of inventory cars right before it happens.
 
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^^^ Excellent write up I think that hits the nail in the head for most all points.

I have to add that Tesla removed a lot of inventory from the site (main site, as well as from view of ev-cpo/etc)... theres lots of for sale cars in the local showrooms that isn't on the site and weirdly enough theres also a few low mileage P100D's in the local showroom to which the sales advisor said they're not allowed to sell. There feels to be a lot of shadow/phantom inventory to give the perception of scarcity.

I have a lease ending in the last few days of 2017 so I'm crossing my fingers that something great will come along!
 
^^^ Excellent write up I think that hits the nail in the head for most all points.

I have to add that Tesla removed a lot of inventory from the site (main site, as well as from view of ev-cpo/etc)... theres lots of for sale cars in the local showrooms that isn't on the site and weirdly enough theres also a few low mileage P100D's in the local showroom to which the sales advisor said they're not allowed to sell. There feels to be a lot of shadow/phantom inventory to give the perception of scarcity.

I have a lease ending in the last few days of 2017 so I'm crossing my fingers that something great will come along!

European inventory is up since a few days (and that doesn't mean the cars are in Europe - my current MS was an inventory car sitting in Fremont). Maybe "6 to 8 weeks before EOQ" is when they populate European inventory, and "2 to 3 weeks before EOQ" is when they do the same for the U.S. and Canada?
 
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