eleven24
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CA is 7.5% (I believe). PA is 6% statewide, but can be up to 8% depending on which county you live in. Philadelphia, for example, is 8%. Only the PA portion of the CA sales tax would be reimbursed though.
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CA is 7.5% (I believe). PA is 6% statewide, but can be up to 8% depending on which county you live in. Philadelphia, for example, is 8%. Only the PA portion of the CA sales tax would be reimbursed though.
potter287
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Lolol did you get the “back in stock” email too?
eleven24
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How about when you look at your phone in the morning and you see an alert that says "Tesla.com" followed by your order number.
Saw that this morning and, since it had my order # I assumed..... until I realized that Siri is was recommending the website that I frequent at a that time each day
Curious what your trade-in offer is. Tesla offered $36.5k for my 2018 LR AWD, Aero's, EAP. I also have acceleration boost, but my guess is no credit for that. There's about 34,000 miles on it. I'm sure I'll need to get a new trade-in value since the offer was accepted almost 30 days ago. Maybe it will go up...
Vroom offered $38.7k. The Tesla offer works out to be better because of the tax reduction in the trade-in. KBB lists trade-in as $41k+.
paobrien7
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After my estimated disappointment date was pushed back so dramatically this morning, I've literally only been on this forum looking for people like @potter287, @CGeiser, @Arkheem to get VINs today. What the hell is padre Elon doing?!
CGeiser
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I keep hoping for that VIN to come through! At this point, I want the VIN more than the car.
allegedskeptic
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This May order would like VIN too please
allegedskeptic
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I've noticed a big build up of MSM exteriors the past couple of weeks. These days it seems like every other poster is MSM. I feel like that happened with Blue right before those guys all got VINs. Here's to hoping 
My EDD is back into September, and yet I'm still checking that stupid website like 10x/day. This is a sickness.This May order would like VIN too please
SINY. I grew up there. That Verrazano bridge toll is ridiculous. Still remember my parents dragging me with them whenever they had to travel to the real NYC for the return toll carpool.
If I still lived there I would had chosen NJ instead of Brooklyn for my MY pickup.
Regarding DCU, I also applied during the long and winding wait. I asked if the checking account had a minimum balance I could carry because I am not sure I want to start banking with them. I was told the direct deposit had to be my entire check, and if they could somehow tell it wasn’t, they would bump the interest rate back up 0.5% immediately. Secondly, for anyone looking at 72 months financing, part of the 1.24% deal is with 65 months is what I was told. I did read somewhere in these forums that the Tesla financing dept could somehow match the rate if you found one lower elsewhere?My stats:
78 days (2.6 mo) between my 5/15 order and getting VIN on 8/1, 96 days (3.2 mo) from order to planned delivery date on 8/19
My thoughts:
1. EDD whiplashing frustration - i suppose we all have to learn to accept rather than get angry with things we don't have control over. This forum has been much cheaper than hiring a therapist to cope with it all- thanks to all my therapists here.
2. The long wait time has saved me money. Initial order was thru Tesla financing at a 2.49% rate. Reading posts on the forum, I heard that some people got a 1.24% rate from DCU.org. I checked it out. A CU in MA that allows membership if you sign up for some local org memberships that are cheap to do. So I signed up and tried an auto loan. The 1.99% rate drops by 0.5% if you do direct deposit and another 0.25% if you are getting a car that is >35mpg, getting you to 1.24%. So this basically will cut my interest cost in half. Took me a month or two to hear about this on the forum and figure it out, so if the Tesla was delivered fast it would have cost me more money. Silver lining? I pass this along in case it might save anyone $. Check out the numbers yourself in case things have changed or I typo'd something.
allegedskeptic
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We have the exact same config and I only ordered 2 days before you. It's going to happen for us any day now I know it
Well it looks like your EDD is ~1 month ahead of mine, so you're probably going to have better luck.
allegedskeptic
Member
Nah EDD is meaningless, just pretend my EDD is yours
. I have a really good feeling about next week for our configI know this has been said before, but the delivery process for Tesla is an absolute joke. There is no reason a company with a $700B market cap, $12B in quarterly revenue should be this god awful at getting cars in people's garages. None, full stop.
potter287
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“Estimated disappointment date” is pure gold
Clown
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And now, I am refreshing almost every second....The Wait is almost over! Got my VIN finally
potter287
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Laughing in rich as we all cry
eleven24
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Confused a bit on the sales tax benefit with trading in. I'm sure it varies state to state, but does what you owe on the trade come into play in regards to the trade in "credit" as far as taxes go?
For example, I currently owe $51k on my existing vehicle (2020 Ford Raptor). Tesla offered me $65k, Vroom $69,500 and a local dealer $70k. My assumption was my tax reduction if I traded in on the Tesla would be $14k (the difference between the Tesla offer and the loan balance).
But then a lightbulb went off.
I paid sales tax on the entire $68k when I purchased the Raptor. The bank loan has nothing to do with it because as far as the state of PA is concerned, I've already paid sales tax on the entire purchase price. Therefore, if I am trading in my vehicle that has a value of $65k (using Tesla's offer) then it would make sense that since the trade in value is higher than the Tesla purchase price, I would not pay sales tax at delivery.
Always hard to figure out sales tax though, because logic doesn't always apply. Can anyone clarify here?
Side note: Interesting how the Tesla offer is lower than the other offers by the roughly amount that the sales tax would be. Also interesting, and shocking is that I paid $68k for the Raptor 18 months ago and am getting initial offers around $70k
For example, I currently owe $51k on my existing vehicle (2020 Ford Raptor). Tesla offered me $65k, Vroom $69,500 and a local dealer $70k. My assumption was my tax reduction if I traded in on the Tesla would be $14k (the difference between the Tesla offer and the loan balance).
But then a lightbulb went off.
I paid sales tax on the entire $68k when I purchased the Raptor. The bank loan has nothing to do with it because as far as the state of PA is concerned, I've already paid sales tax on the entire purchase price. Therefore, if I am trading in my vehicle that has a value of $65k (using Tesla's offer) then it would make sense that since the trade in value is higher than the Tesla purchase price, I would not pay sales tax at delivery.
Always hard to figure out sales tax though, because logic doesn't always apply. Can anyone clarify here?
Side note: Interesting how the Tesla offer is lower than the other offers by the roughly amount that the sales tax would be. Also interesting, and shocking is that I paid $68k for the Raptor 18 months ago and am getting initial offers around $70k
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