Performance Upgrade Price Change!

[kbecks13]

WTF, I just took delivery of a P3D+ yesterday.....

And you now have a choice of getting free supercharging or $5K back, not bad!

 

[D3xDt3Reaction]

So did Elon really sign off Twitter or did the board just boot him off for promising $5k to a bunch of people?


Twitter

 

[Nilroc]

What Elon should do is offer Ridiculous Speed for early P3D+ buyers NO CHARGE.
Ludicrous is reserved for Model S. Plaid is reserved for Roadster.
Track Mode and Ridiculous Speed I'd be a happy camper.
Hope Ryan at Ride The Lightning can get Elon to move on that!

 

[juanmedina]

I sincerely hope so. I know they'd still have had a profit, but at this stage, I think every dollar counts. I really do hope things work out well for all. I got a standard AWD and would be mad as hell if I had paid an extra $5K, but at the same time, I really want to see Tesla succeed. I hope this snafu doesn't hurt them too much.

So did some numbers based on bloomberg's tracker and troy's spreadhseet:

• 111,968 total M3's produced.
• 5309 orders on Troy's tracker
• 556 P3D orders (10.4%)
• 335 "+" orders (6.3% or 60.2% of P3D orders).

Let say Tesla refunds us (which I don't think will happen), it would cost them (7065 P3D+), 35.3 million.

But honestly some type of consolation.

 

[Funkmobile]

And you now have a choice of getting free supercharging or $5K back, not bad!

Yeah just reading through this thread now and at first I was outraged, and now hopefully Elon follows through with the promised $5K refund.

 

[Dr. J]

oh and the diecast car. I still want that.

You and me both, brother.

 

[kbecks13]

Yeah just reading through this thread now and at first I was outraged, and now hopefully Elon follows through with the promised $5K refund.

Quite the rollercoaster for your Friday night, right?

 

[D3xDt3Reaction]

So did Elon really sign off Twitter or did the board just boot him off for promising $5k to a bunch of people?


Twitter

By the way, this was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. (Although you do have to wonder sometimes,)

 

[mswlogo]

I’m glad I had the option.

15% less range, bent rims and limited snow tire options.

I’m good with the original P3D-

 

[Daniel in SD]

I know this is something of a troll post but you all are just proving that transparent pricing is bad and the dealership model is good. Every other car company changes prices all the time and no one freaks out. The vast majority of cars get cheaper after the first year of production.

 

[Powered By Jay]

What will happen first?
-$5k Supercharging refunds
-delivery of P3D+ spoilers
-delivery of Dual Motor badges
-track mode release
-FSD
-SR model 3

 

[juanmedina]

I know this is something of a troll post but you all are just proving that transparent pricing is bad and the dealership model is good. Every other car company changes prices all the time and no one freaks out. The vast majority of cars get cheaper after the first year of production.

I agree.

I think the problem here was the amount of money that the price was changed by. If they had said 1 or 2k price reduction I wouldn't have care that much .... I think. In that case having free supercharing would have kept me happy.

 

[Nilroc]

I know this is something of a troll post but you all are just proving that transparent pricing is bad and the dealership model is good. Every other car company changes prices all the time and no one freaks out. The vast majority of cars get cheaper after the first year of production.

Ya but this is after only a month for me!

 

[MXWing]

I know this is something of a troll post but you all are just proving that transparent pricing is bad and the dealership model is good. Every other car company changes prices all the time and no one freaks out. The vast majority of cars get cheaper after the first year of production.

You have to navigate EQ as well as price elasticity of demand curves.

If Elon force bundled PUP and raised the price there would have been no issue.

Tesla angered people and made less money.

Lose lose.

Tesla’s method is fine, the execution and communication is cringeworthy.

 

[Daniel in SD]

Ya but this is after only a month for me!

Yep. It’s a tricky problem. If they lowered it by $1k every month for 5 months people would just wait to buy the car because they’d figure a price decrease was coming. That’s why the dealership model works. The MSRP stays the same but the incentives they give the dealers are always changing and customers have no idea what everyone else is paying.

 

[D3xDt3Reaction]

I agree.

I think the problem here was the amount of money that the price was changed by. If they had said 1 or 2k price reduction I wouldn't have care that much .... I think. In that case having free supercharing would have kept me happy.

As a P3D+ owner who took delivery in September I can emphathize.

 

[Mav777]

I wonder if he's actually done the math on that $5000. I, personally, don't think the old $2000 was underpriced especially if used properly for long distance. For apartment dwellers and people without garages though it might be underpriced.

In a perfect world I'd still get free supercharging as a first day reservation holder and early adopter AND get $5000 back... oh and the diecast car. I still want that.

If you want the die cast model just go to the service center and ask for one. The will look up your vin and find out when you reserved and give you the car. Person I talked to said they were doing their best to get them to the people who should have gotten them.

 

[commasign]

What will happen first?
-$5k Supercharging refunds
-delivery of P3D+ spoilers
-delivery of Dual Motor badges
-track mode release
-FSD
-SR model 3

Your forgot about the HUD which every Model 3 is supposed to have. Tesla just has to enable it via software update.

 

[hashraf]

Hopefully the sales tax on 5k will also be refunded.

 

[Funkmobile]

Quite the rollercoaster for your Friday night, right?

No kidding. Basically, less than 24 hours that I took delivery it dropped by 5K USD and that's a pretty harsh pill to swallow.