Total speculation and rumor-mongering for clickbait. They want your clicks/monetizing.
Woaah. That seems like a very long wait. Did you put your order on hold?
Would you have wanted a rejected car? That is usually what ends up on the website. Sometimes just people delaying or flat out canceling after receiving a vin but often times, a car with issues so they throw it up online figured those who are impatient are more willing to put up with the issues.
So by spotting an inventory car last time, you got to cut in line, right? Good for you. Bad for everyone who plays by what we thought were Tesla's rules.
No, there was not a waitlist for SR cars. They only sold them for a couple months and this one was rejected or canceled by someone so it was going to sit on a lot until someone ordered it from online. Instead of building one to sell to someone else and ship the car backwards from the east coast, they left that one on the east coast and reassigned us to a new build. Everyone wins.
I selected cash first to complete my profile. I will switch to finance once i am assigned a Vin
My SA pushed me to accept the Tesla financing offer in order for me to get a VIN. I got one a few days after acceptance, but the VIN was reassigned a couple of days later. I believed I got screwed big time, but as an optimist, I decided to wait in order to possibly receive an updated Model Y.
Yikes. No way I’m letting anyone push me to do anything
. They can make suggestions, cool.. but I haven’t had them be pushy yet.if cars are rejected for any reason besides legit damage/QA issues, they should be immediately assigned to the next waiting customer in the region where the car has already been shipped. Not put up for sale to whoever’s lucky enough to check existing inventory at the right second.
How do you know this isn’t what happens? They check orders at that delivery center and if there isn’t a matching order it goes online? They assign people to specific delivery centers for a reason. Just because you may be willing to drive 100 miles to pick up a car since you feel you are next in line doesn’t mean everyone does. Tesla obviously doesn’t cater to each customer individually. We know cars got stuck in the Central Valley with the grapevine closed at the end of the year and in the ever stupider push to get every last car sold in a quarter, they may have offered some of those cars online hoping for a quick sale. why? 10% increase in market value. Unless you can come up with a reason why Tesla should ignore the market reaction to how they have always and will continue to do business, then that is so,etching you have to put up with. Constantly wishing they did business differently isn’t going to accomplish anything other than sour your opinion of Tesla. They don’t care about you or me or anyone else’s other than making money. If you don’t agree with this, maybe there are other EVs that might suit you better.
I’ve seen 3 cars that match my spec in “Los Angeles” after someone recently posted about existing inventory availability - I find it hard to believe there isn’t a match already out there, even if you narrow it to a specific delivery location (e.g., Burbank). And frankly, if we’re talking about a metro area, they should be willing to move it to a nearby delivery center if there is a matching customer waiting.
It'd be very baffling if they didn't find a taker for that VIN, and didn't assign it back to me (or another waiting customer). I was given two delivery day options in the middle of the holidays (mind you when I ordered, delivery was estimated for January so I made holiday plans under that assumption), and my SA at the time told me not to worry if I had to pass -- I'd likely get a car in early January. My EDD after the hold was released was originally March, now Feb-March. I would have tried to change my flight back home to take delivery if he had told me I'd be looking at March. And I communicated that concern to him clearly at the time.
