Or you sit on the sideline until the next price cut. Or you decide to buy from someone else at your target price point. How do you know the company isn’t screwing you further?
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what sucks is they offered this 7500 credit a few weeks back and then this week lower even more. It’s kinda scammy
JaeTheDev
Active Member
Call your insurance companies if you're in the boat I am in. Added GAP and still dropped my premiums with the same coverages on three vehicles, two being MY's significantly.
ucmndd
Well-Known Member
Being unhappy and being irrational are not the same thing.
I totally get the frustration with poor market timing. We've all been there. It's indeed an unhappy thing. It's normal to be unhappy. It's not rational to blame individual companies for needing to respond to macroeconomic conditions in order to remain a viable business.
Honest question: What is your solution to this problem? What does a favorable outcome look like to you?
Tesla cars are suppose to be for average people... for the masses.. not those with "high deposable" incomes.
Mercedes, Ferrari, audi, etc... those cars are suppose to be for those that care about branding.. nothing has changed.. those cars are still available...
I guess I lucked out, I cancelled my order on 12/28 thinking these prices are inflated! will be picking up a MY now!
Or u can wait a bit longer, who knows, they may discount even more next month....
Sweat shops aren't bad business moves either of you ignore the optics and prioritize new customers.
My solution is I stop reading the forum and get my ass back to work lol.
It's like a car crash though, I just can't stop reading lol.
Yes they are available - I think the bigger point is people don’t like getting screwed and no one likes being out $10k unnecessarily, I’ve worked with the super rich and they are some of the stingiest people I’ve met.
I would probably buy a Toyota or Honda over a Tesla at this point. Probably have at least another 3 cars in my lifetime and they won’t be teslas.
It's a friday and I got a lot of my stuff done yesterday. Habahhaha... yeah, the internet can be a time waster...
Not sure I agree with this. I am somewhat conservative with finances though.
For me a car for the masses is something below $35k (CDN). Again I am pretty conservative with $ so YMMV.
Some people are a$$ hurt now but if they think logically when the time comes to buy their next car they'll do what they've always done, buy the best value for their money at the time. I seriously doubt many will say "Tesla has the best XXXX but because they dropped their prices last year I'll buy a Ford!" Or if they do they're silly IMO....
Tesla cars have mostly NOT been for average people...ever.
Initially, they were specialty market products.
Then they became virtual signaling accessories.
Slowly, they became proven solutions.
Pronouncements of being a new "Peoples' car" have been made many times but never once realized.
It's not easy to measure long term effects. After the initial buyers jump in and inventory drops, will Tesla raise prices back up? Will prices be back at these levels for the long term? Will inventory pile up again after this after everyone who blinks, purchased and they have to cut further if inventory piles up?
It's not possible to know at this point and it's all questions.
Tesla has some inventory level they like. They clearly did not like the 1400+ yesterday. If I was buying, my concern will be they have a ton of manufacturing capacity. This puts concern on supply.
How do we know that tesla can't do that right now.. but because of demand, they are taking in as much profit as they can while building as many cars as they can. (Profit that is used to reinvest in more factories, and r/d)
You are right though... to full fill Elons original dream of replacing ice cars, tesla cars must be affordable to the masses. Tesla will get there if they haven't already.
Dale_L
Member
The Treasury Department is expected to finalize the battery material rules for the IRA in March. Until that happens, any all EV batteries assembled in North America qualify. The price reduction brings the MSRP to under the $55,000 limit. I reserved an AWD VW ID.4 Pro S Plus. When I found out about the price drop this morning, I ordered a blue Model Y. I have a pickup date of next Saturday, 1/21/2023! The Tesla MSRP is $1,700 less than the ID.4 MSRP.
Ah yes, I think I see what you were getting at in your OP. I wonder what their profit per car is right now...info is probably out there somewhere, but like I said I am supposed to be working
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