Okay, I really peeved at the moment. I bought the Model 3 about a month ago with the following options:
1. Long-range ($10k more)
2. Blue color ($1k more)
3. Self-drive option ($6k more)
Since the base was just under 40k, the price of the above was 57k. At this point, freight ($1.5k), title/registration and taxes (2.5k), were added to give me a purchase price of 61k. Now I know that Tesla dropped the price of this vehicle by around 2.8k (taxes included), one day after my return period ended. This weekend, Tesla announced that they were now including unlimited supercharging for their Model S or X vehicles so I thought, I would trade in the Model 3 and purchase the S. I was completely beside myself when Tesla told me that the fair market value of my Model 3 is now 36.9k .. WTF??? The Model 3 declined in value by more than 50% in 3 weeks??? I find this really hard to buy since Tesla states they use Kelley's blue book values to price the trade-ins. Kelley's blue book value for a 2018 Model 3 is 49.2k (and that does not include self-drive) ... so how exactly did Tesla come up with 36.9k for my 2019 Model 3??
While I love the car, I am not finding Tesla to be as progressive as many believe in their business practices and they leave a lot to be desired. I will also say, if this is what they believe a brand new model 3 is worth after 3 weeks, then perhaps all of us should be ditching the idea of buying a Tesla.