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Performance Upgrade Price Change!
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Knightshade
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FWIW I'm still waiting on a much smaller check from Tesla from overpayment on the original purchase on September 30th.
At delivery I was told I'd have check in 4-6 weeks... but got no check... did executive escalation on line, was told Nov 20 I'd have check in 10-15 business days. Which passed a few days ago- no check. Sent follow up today to exec escalation dude, waiting on reply now.
So I don't think their accounting dept is any less crap than any other part of their administrative apparatus.
chickensworth
Member
interesting... i had paid Tesla for my registration which they eventually turned back to me to get done along with a promised refund. the refund never came. I finally reached out to Tesla with executive escalation for that refund along with the 5k back... I got the registration refund within a week... still waiting for the 5K check.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
Heh- registration was a whole other drama for me.... apparently they "forgot" to do state inspection prior to delivery (which is illegal in my state- but then removing the window sticker is illegal federally and they'd done that to EVERY new Model 3 they had on the lot...)
Then 3 weeks into my 30 day plate they noticed they forgot to inspect it when they tried to get me a 'real' plate and told me to go take it someplace to get inspected (at their expense- they actually had to send an employee to the inspection place to meet me to pay for it)- and then had to pay to overnight the "real" plates to me once they were ready.
Just checking in to see what's new...
Is that Free PUP Incentive Program still going on? Have they reached the order-by deadline yet? Is the price back to "normal" again, or at some new plus-or-minus $5K level?
Anyway, if I hear nothing more from Tesla by Christmas about my $5K Model 3 price differential, then I'll give them a little present - my $50K Base Model Roadster reservation cancellation. Besides, since it'll probably take them weeks or months to return my $50K, I'd better cancel it sooner rather than later!
Live and learn. I wouldn't want to get the Tesla early-adopter-"squeeze" (Fred Lambert's word) twice... (It could also be called "the-other-than-fully-optioned-squeeze.)
But all is not lost - every YouTuber and blogger I know is getting 2 free fully-optioned Founder's Edition Roadsters! Maybe I can pick up one of those, used, after they iron out the kinks for me.
Tesla, Tesla, Tesla - what's wrong with you?! I sure hope your admin. incompetence doesn't start trickling down into your production and engineering!!!
Is that Free PUP Incentive Program still going on? Have they reached the order-by deadline yet? Is the price back to "normal" again, or at some new plus-or-minus $5K level?
Anyway, if I hear nothing more from Tesla by Christmas about my $5K Model 3 price differential, then I'll give them a little present - my $50K Base Model Roadster reservation cancellation.
Besides, since it'll probably take them weeks or months to return my $50K, I'd better cancel it sooner rather than later!Live and learn. I wouldn't want to get the Tesla early-adopter-"squeeze" (Fred Lambert's word) twice... (It could also be called "the-other-than-fully-optioned-squeeze.)
But all is not lost - every YouTuber and blogger I know is getting 2 free fully-optioned Founder's Edition Roadsters! Maybe I can pick up one of those, used, after they iron out the kinks for me.
Tesla, Tesla, Tesla - what's wrong with you?! I sure hope your admin. incompetence doesn't start trickling down into your production and engineering!!!
Daniel in SD
(supervised)
The net price goes up $3750 for most buyers on January 1st. Hopefully that will make everyone in this thread feel better.Just checking in to see what's new...
Is that Free PUP Incentive Program still going on? Have they reached the order-by deadline yet? Is the price back to "normal" again, or at some new plus-or-minus $5K level?
I hate to be the one to break it to you...Tesla, Tesla, Tesla - what's wrong with you?! I sure hope your admin. incompetence doesn't start trickling down into your production and engineering!!!
JeffK
Well-Known Member
JeffK
Well-Known Member
Nice try?.. it's mathNice try
original cost
Price X - $7500 tax credit
New cost
Price Y = (Price X - $5000)
Price Y - $7500 tax credit
Now if you get only half of the tax credit then it's closer to the original net cost.
Speaking of price increases - I hear the Europeans are really getting hit hard! (like $90K hard!)
At the time, I suggested if they "need" to reduce prices on Perf. cars (because of new-found production efficiencies?) they should do it for the long-waiting Europeans. The exact opposite is happening. Early enthusiasts getting shafted again!
And btw. - Crazy price swings, up or down, should not make anyone happy.
Perry
Active Member
Not really. The whole reason I ordered early and had to suffer with the bad build quality was for the full rebate. Had I known that the price would go down to match the rebate, I would have rather ordered later after these poor build quality problems have gone away. Now I am stuck with hugely inconsistent panel gaps and miss-alignments as well as the the 5K loss.
So no it doesn't make up for it. Not even close.
Msjulie
Active Member
That doesn't help anyone who already bought one, math or otherwise
BTW the tax credit is only that as everyone says many times, it only helps reduce your taxes if you are taxed enough to make it matter - many are but not all
Thats still there in cars manufactured in November, so that part has not changed.
Exactly right. I'm one of those for whom the tax credit is useless, for example. (I'm retired and don't make enough to take advantage of the credit.)
Msjulie
Active Member
And also - how does an early adopter who road the pricing rollercoaster extract any benefit from the change in the tax program which only can impact a brand new audience of buyers? Completely unrelated group of people and math..
Daniel in SD
(supervised)
This is exactly the point that many of us have been trying to make. The price new customers pay has nothing to do with you.
