I understand what you are saying, and I appreciate your making the extra effort to explain it.
I guess my point is that since Tesla's primary business is manufacturing the five and six figure cars, they could afford to take some losses on the low quality product they wound up stuck with on the three figure console they had promised their five and six figure car customers, at least until they fulfilled those promises.
I understand that some bad consoles would slip through the quality checks, be paid for by Tesla, and be delivered to customers. Presumably the quality issues could be caught at installation, or, in the worst case scenario later by the customer, and Tesla could still make things right. Yes, Tesla would be eating some cost on these. My point is that I feel strongly eating the cost on some three-figure consoles, to fulfill the promises made to the customers of your five and six figure cars would be the right thing to do. Sure, Tesla might lose a little money doing that in the short run, but it's certainly not going to put them out of business, since they could stop buying the consoles once everyone who had been promised one had one. And in all likelihood whatever they lost in actual cost of goods, they'd make up in margin on the units they could sell, and also in the good will being generated (or, as is the case now, the lack of ill-will they would have generated.)
