I didn't wait in line, but was there any difference between the "line waiters" at a store, and say people who reserved in the store later in the day (no line) or just online elsewhere the same day?
Even at the reveal event, all they had set up were macs with a browser open to the reservation website. Were in-store reservations any different?
My point is, how are they going to separate the "line waiters" from other people who reserved the same day (other than reservation sequence order)?
If everyone used the same website to make their reservations, I'm thinking the only real useful data Tesla has to assign invite order for each reservation is:
- Email address
- Date/Time of Reservation
- Reservation sequence number
- IP address (most likely an internal Tesla intranet IP address for store locations)
From that, using the email address, they can easily match up current MyTesla accounts (existing owners) and their location. They could also match up people (like me) who were at the reveal event, although I think it's just rumors that that counts for something in the invite order, probably doesn't.
From IP address, they can tell who reserved at a Tesla store, or "not at a Tesla store" (home/work, etc). But I'm not sure how they would separate actual "line waiters" from other people who didn't wait in line, but reserved the same day at a store.
Bottom line: With 200k+ reservations the first day (a mix of line waiters, store visits, online, and event), I don't think the invite ordering sequence is going to be as methodical or logical as people are assuming it will be, other than proximity to the factory, previous ownership status, and loosely the reservation order.
