roblab
Active Member
When I signed up for my reservation a few weeks ago (thankfully I'm now six spots from the "back of the queue" :wink, the website indicated that reservations for the Signature Series were all sold out. It also says, "We will open a Signature Series wait list to all reservation holders by the end of January." I read this to mean that if you hold a current reservation for a non-sig, you can sign up to get on a list for the Sig in the event that people drop their reservation after production starts, but it doesn't guarantee you a Sig.
Am I looking at this correctly? What happens to your non-sig reservation if you get on the wait list?
I am considering dropping off the Sig list since Sigs only come in black, white, red and silver(grey) and I have other preferences. Since I am near the front of the list, a P lister would probably get added to the end of the Sig list (probably only a couple months' wait), the line would move up to fill my spot, and I would sit in the P list until my color choice became available -- hopefully not more than a few months. If you were late on the wait list, you would need to have a lot of people drop off the Sig list, as you said, it does not guarantee you a Sig, just puts you in a vacated spot if enough are vacated.
There might be others who will drop off the Sig list who find they cannot get grey, blue, green or brown until after the Sigs are all sold. My advocate tells me that Tesla would try to place Sig droppers according to the date they put down their deposit, supposedly filling holes in the P list. If there are no holes for a ways, the Sig dropper would move back to the first available hole. If their color choice is not available yet, due to inability of the factory to run that many colors (!), the Sig dropper would wait until that color came available, and then wait for a hole.
I would far rather keep my position as an early supporter of Tesla, and drive a Sig Series to show that support, but there doesn't seem to be any option if I don't want the proffered color (red) or shade (black, midtone, or white).
I would guess that your P spot would stay the same unless you picked up a Sig reservation spot. If you never got a Sig spot, you would still be near the end of the P list. It would be a great way to get moved WAY up in line!
