Poll: Stock Ownership | Car Ownership (revised)

[Intl Professor]

My average purchase price is $29.90 and now have enough to more than buy a fully optioned Model S, and perhaps an E in later years. I wandered into the White Plains dealership last August and announced, in typical bombastic fashion I could buy the car with the stock, but I wasn't a buyer. The salesman immediately responded, "keep the stock." Now the stock is my largest holding, but the entire portfolio is a good nest-egg but will have to get to a million or more before I would sell other stocks for a Tesla. I will be long until 990 at least!

 

[MarkR]

My car is stock... does that count? :tongue:

No! . . . but you are awarded 10 points for a good pun!

 

[hobbes]

After trying to time stock moves with varying success, now I am just long TSLA (real long). First got into Tesla when I bought, over time I started to want one, too... Still looking for a good excuse to own a car . Live in the middle of the city, can walk and bike everywhere and car share if I really need one. But I´ll find something until Model E comes and by then my shares will pay for it.

 

[tgp1019]

Some of us own a Tesla vehicle, or have a reservation for one.
Some of us own stock in Tesla Motors (TSLA) or have call options, etc.
Some are in both categories, some in neither.

How about you?

Own Model S P85, Own TSLA , thinking about reservation of Model X for wife!

 

[AudubonB]

My car is stock... does that count? :tongue:

Only if you long to share it.

Me: as Chief Toilet Scrubber of an Alaskan lodge, I didn't fit profile of a Model S owner, but made largest single investment in my life, both by $ amount and by % of my net worth, in TSLA. And in a ridiculously small amount of time could sell a small fraction of the holding to pay for the P85.

 

[ggr]

We put a deposit on a Roadster 2.0 soon after the first LA store opened (where the Santa Monica service center just moved out of). Before we got the car, I went to one of the meetings where Elon had to break the news of a price hike and delays to all the pending reservations. I realized at the time that this was a very special business, and businessperson. Then we got the roadster and fell in love! It was a real stretch to buy that car, especially because we thought it would be the impractical, fun, not-for-day-to-day-use car. But we were wrong; it became my daily driver and our Merc fell into disuse. So as soon as it was possible, we put down a deposit on a Sig Model S. By the time of the IPO, it was obvious to us that here was a product the world would want, and a company that could execute, so I invested as much as I could at the time. It's paid off handsomely.

 

[VolkerP]

I own 1/12 share of a Model S. Oh and some shares. I'm afraid that doesn't qualify as "owns Tesla car" :frown:
Waiting for 2017 to decide what to do. Go for Model S, or X, or Gen III. But a Tesla car is in my future.

 

[Rifleman]

The only reason I am in a financial position to have my Model S reservation right now is because of TSLA

 

[GardenStateTSLA]

BOught in the low-20s, sold 1/2 in the mid-30s (genius) and then sold almost all the rest at multiples of that ... still holding a small piece for posterity. Expecting delivery in April.

 

[domenick]

No shares (unethical), and no car. I would love to be able to buy one in the future, though.

On a related note, if anyone needs an employee for a decent paying job, I'm available. :smile:

 

[bonnie]

No shares (unethical), and no car. I would love to be able to buy one in the future, though.

On a related note, if anyone needs an employee for a decent paying job, I'm available. :smile:

Unethical? Why so?

 

[domenick]

Unethical? Why so?

Because I write about the company (currently at AutoblogGreen).

It's kind of a big no-no.

 

[RobStark]

Because I write about the company (currently at AutoblogGreen).

It's kind of a big no-no.

Not as long as you disclose your position.

 

[Liz G]

Bought stock
Bought a Tesla
Sold some stock
Bought another Tesla
Long on the remaining stock

 

[VolkerP]

Liz, you over-qualify for this poll. :biggrin:

 

[Al Sherman]

Bought 10,000 shares in the low 20's. Bought a P85. Reserved a MX. WILL reserve a pickup whenever.
I may sell some shares when it hits 400. :smile:

 

[andrewket]

You guys are all going to make me cry. I've bought and sold several times with small to medium gains along the way. Had I just held the original shares at ~30...

I've been bullish on Tesla since the beginning. I'm not sure why I didn't put my money where my mind was. Oh well!

 

[Johann Koeber]

2 years ago I bought a roadster. It was painful because I couldn't really justify it financially.
Shortly after that I bought some TSLA, although I felt it difficult to justify financially

those were two of the best purchases of my life

 

[xhawk101]

Got stock at $22 and 30s
Ordered ms in 2011
Sold half of stock to help pay down car
Keeping my stock position long term
Probably will get another s or future coupe one day

 

[StephenM]

Turned my holdings in my self-directed IRA into cash so I could convert it all to TSLA shortly after I ordered Model S (was $38 at the time).