Just read that on the Charlotte thread. Then move pickup to VA, or Nashville and go see a show or two. Once the money is in their hands you lose all leverage. I never have and never will prepay for a car, truck, plane, or boat no matter how much I may want it. Buying wholesale is a whole different animal. But you are paying Tesla full retail sticker. Buyers like you have Tesla convinced they can get away with anything they want.
So it is your money: Your choice.
My options as given were:
Pay in advance, get home delivery.
Don't pay, don't get a car.
I'm not sure "move pickup to VA" would be a great plan even if it was offered- given how many folks I've seen with delivery issues there too- and then I'm driving hours each way in hopes they don't cancel my delivery (like many others have had happen) when I'm 10 minutes away. At least with home delivery if they cancel it I'm already home.
Not to mention even if they do deliver on time, and it's perfect, I've now got a 3 hour drive back with no PPF on the car. Home delivery I can have them deliver it AT the PPF shop (or at least to my house which is hours nearer to it than Virginia)
Nashville is
8 hours...one way... by car. That makes even less sense.
Given we have from Tesla, in writing, that we can reject home delivery cars entirely if there's a major problem- or return the car for a full refund within 2 days of home delivery (if there's minor ones the SC says they won't fix) I don't really see all that much of a problem
I get that in an ideal world I'd have lots of time to check out my car before I do a thing.
But in the actual world I'd really prefer to get the full tax credit... so jerking them around until they let me do that, if they do, puts that at risk (doubly so if the first car DOES have a significant enough problem I need to have my VIN rematched)
And I'd really prefer to use the locked very low finance rate that expires in a couple weeks too.
I'm also about to need to renew the registration on my car I'm otherwise trading in- that's a few hundred more bucks I could avoid needing to pay if I get rid of it shortly (and I'll need something to drive when that happens).
Believe me- if Lexus made a car with EAP-comparable features and comparable performance, for a comparable price, readily available, I'd go buy it instead secure that I'd have a beautiful silky smooth purchase experience and leave Tesla floundering with concepts like actually having enough parking for the thousands of cars you're trying to deliver through service centers. They don't though. Nobody really does.
Screwing myself over in the purchase to spite Tesla doesn't seem like a great move.
I'm kind of hardcore about this sort of thing. I would point out that the MVPA currently claims that you agree that the car has been delivered, and that you will not and cannot legally sign it until the car has been delivered. Tell 'em if that's a problem, they can refund your money and you'll buy a car when they have the ability to make a legal-to-sign MVPA. .
Nope.
The MVPA doesn't actually say that.
The delivery declaration does.
They're not the same document (though Tesla does send you both together but the esign does
not ask for a signature on anything but the MVPA part).
The delivery declaration you sign at....well...actual delivery.
You have to sign the MVPA before purchase- which is the agreement to purchase-(in fact the bank won't even release funds for the loan without a copy of it- so it's
impossible to buy the car before you sign it if you're financing- and with rates as low as I'm getting paying cash would be stupid)
The MVPA also specifically has a "delivery" section written to make it clear delivery will happen IN THE FUTURE from when you're signing it. It includes a clause where you say you understand that your FUTURE delivery date, if you choose not to take delivery within 7 days of it, they might sell the car to someone else.
Which would make no sense if it was a doc being signed at or after delivery.