very strange as mine doesn’t reflect the price decrease. My account still needs insurance uploaded and I originally set it to pay cash. Interestingly enough the option to add bank account is now gone and says “we will contact you to arrange payment prior to delivery”. I did tell my SA I needed to change to 3rd party finance so maybe he did something.
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Model Y SR gone from options and LR dropped 1K?
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very strange as mine doesn’t reflect the price decrease. My account still needs insurance uploaded and I originally set it to pay cash. Interestingly enough the option to add bank account is now gone and says “we will contact you to arrange payment prior to delivery”. I did tell my SA I needed to change to 3rd party finance so maybe he did something.
I have a lease approved for several weeks and I just looked and my payment has decreased from $743 to $709. I also see that the vehicle price is $1000 less on the lease details than what is on the order agreement dated 01/01/2021. I did not edit design or email anyone...... Apparently they just adjusted the terms automatically.
tstolze
Member
Wonder if this wasn't to boost 1st quarter sales which is traditionally a slow quarter for car sales?
Prior to taking delivery, you can get pricing adjusted, and if it doesn't happen automatically, it can be taken care of by messaging/emailing Tesla.
Post-delivery, there are no pricing adjustments. If you search the forum, you'll see posts from mid-2020 when Tesla dropped the LR price by $3K. Fairly straightforward to price-adjust before delivery, but no chance after (except, back then, you could still return your vehicle within 7 days, as an option).
ryanjeffords
Member
Well, so be it...
It’s funny because this was always one of my biggest fears... take delivery and immediately see a price drop. Oh well, at least I finally have a car after waiting 9 months.
it’s really too bad they couldn’t just cut that acceleration boost price by $1k as a compromise. But, I digress.
Well... if it's any consolation: there have been no price increases since July 2020 on the LR, and the latest builds have several enhancements not present early-on (USB in glovebox w/128GB storage provided, heated steering wheel, auto-dimming side mirrors, etc). Your build likely has most or all of the latest enhancements...
The only thing that makes sense to me is that they dropped the price to test how much they could increase demand, and it didn’t increase demand enough so they dropped it completely.
I think you are right there. But the other possibility is there were such high demand, they figured they remove it for now until they catch up on production? Or maybe they realized 39K was not enough margin on the model Y given its recent upgrades? Or like other people had said, it might be because the SR model Y is too limiting in REAL WORLD range they decided to cut to prevent customer backlash. Or it is a combo of all these reasons. However I doubt it is the high demand reason because if someone wanted the SR, they would've picked it up. $2K usually isn't a deal maker for a car in this price range.
But if demand is so high, the $2k price cut this week doesn’t make sense.
It was only gone for a few hours or a day at most. Any my finance payment through Tesla reflects the new price as well. Nice to not have to argue with them about that! Now I just hope it doesn't go up between now and when I take delivery!
Etna
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Your post has been picked up and is spreading like wildfire on Reddit and Facebook, literally standing by itself as an official statement from Tesla.
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