I think you only have to ask to get repaid - which is weird in itself. It should be automatic at this point...Who has been repaid? Because I haven't.
I actually mostly agree with Elon offering refunds, it's the initial $5k price drop that never should've happened. It was undoubtedly mostly pure profit for Tesla and people were gladly paying it, so I don't understand the seemingly impulsive thought process to change it out of the blue.
Tesla is great at many things but their abhorrent communication and schizophrenic pricing has started to wear on my patience. Just figure it out and leave it. No need to keep shooting yourself in the foot and pissing off more than half your customers once someone starts to whine and make headlines. The model 3 pricing has probably changed 5-6 times this year alone...