erktrek
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That's the unfortunate aspect of Tesla since there are way too many factors that determine availability/delivery - order time, delivery location, build configuration, factory making your build, how to car assignment algos work, and probably so much more.
Honestly the experience the common Tesla buyer goes through is probably placing a "Custom Order" by paying order free and waiting months/years to potentially get the car. If there are cars in inventory at a location, you can just purchase that specific one.
But due to the huge discount that happened overnight in addition to tax incentives, the hype and FOMO caused people to place an order right away. Not being able to get from existing inventory anymore was probably the biggest thing that caused people to be SOL when it comes to EDDs. People who grabbed or were assigned cars from inventory got their cars within 2 weeks.
Since Tesla is a new way of doing things (no dealers, rapid iteration, few model types etc) and are growing at a crazy pace it is understandable that the order process is chaos. We went into this with our eyes open - would like more updates sure but it's not a deal killer for us. Also we have perfectly good albeit rapidly aging / expensive to maintain ICE vehicles right now and can handle the delay. Not as worried about the Tax credit situation.
Another thought is the more recent the build the more potential for additional updates/upgrades as Tesla likes to continuously introduce improvements.
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