With apologies to
@Leodoc, I think I will be forming a Steve hates Tesla club.
On Monday I received a text from Tesla tell me that the value of my trade-in had gone up to $18200. Please note that the offer was not shown on the website since I had unselected trade-in a few months ago.
On Thursday i received the VIN. I also accepted the trade-in offer via an email link shown in the text. Because of a technical glitch, Tesla said they had to redo the appraisal for the trade-in. Over the past six months I put less than 600 miles on the car.
Today I received the offer. It was for $1000 less than the offer they texted me on Monday. I texted them a screenshot of the text offer, but they have yet to respond and I doubt they will
It doesn't really matter since I will just sell th car to a third party, but not standing behind their written offer from 3 days ago is shameful.
To add another example from the past week to their poor treatment of customers, I also asked my SA if i could pay for the FSD outside of the purchase agreement for tax purposes. Of course, the SA told me that was impossible and that removing the FSD would jack up the price of the car by $10K. At my request, she checked with a manager and who confirmed. I know this is not surprising to those of us on this board, but it just exemplifies once again the low respect that Tesla has for its patrons.
Competition cannot come soon enough.