Possible reservation number hint on My Tesla

[sunrocket]

4/2 at about 4:15 in the afternoon from at home in MD. 609xxx - good news for me, more time to put away the bucks for down payment

Ditto! so need the hopefully 18 months
(444xxx reserved 3/31 7:35pm online PST)

 

[tandjharris]

I wonder if the reservation numbers are assigned when payment is received by Tesla as it is not a confirmed reservation until the deposit has been paid. Hence if there was a delay in the payment coming through then they would have an apparently out of sequence number.
I received my confirmation email quite a few hours after I placed my online reservation. Did those with out of sequence numbers have an unusually long delay before they received their confirmation email?

 

[hockeythug]

Yeah, its gone.

 

[sunrocket]

I wonder if the reservation numbers are assigned when payment is received by Tesla as it is not a confirmed reservation until the deposit has been paid. Hence if there was a delay in the payment coming through then they would have an apparently out of sequence number.
I received my confirmation email quite a few hours after I placed my online reservation. Did those with out of sequence numbers have an unusually long delay before they received their confirmation email?

I hear that. I did not get confirmation for about 24hrs. you might be onto something

 

[Warrentt]

IT is gone. This is what happen when I been on a family trip for the last two day and have no access to a laptop. God dammit.

 

[Bimbels]

Ha. But not gone for my Model S - sneaky bastards.

 

[MountainRatMat]

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

Isn't the obvious starting number 333,333?

 

[brianman]

Of the 191 responses for Instore between 10am EST and 10:30pm EST on 3/31 (Hours to order before Online opened)

East Coast - 70 (37%)
Central - 23 (12%)
Mountain - 12 (6%)
West Coast - 48 (25%)
Rest Of World - 38 (20%)

Total Orders Based on 50,000 orders during that time
East Coast - 18,325
Central - 6,021
Mountain - 3,141
West Coast - 12,565 (Seems low)
Rest Of World - 9,948

*Based on Time Zones

Regarding the underlined... I'm confused by your phrasing. Are you saying people not on the east coast were able to order before 10am local time?

 

[brianman]

But some folks here who reserved 2 also got sub 400xxx numbers

It might depend on how you did the two.

I've heard of some people that "reserved 2" and filled the form out twice -- even different credit cards for the two reservations. For such people, this likely looks like a pair of single reservations rather than a single reservation of a pair.

 

[Fallenone]

RIP. The fact it is gone lends credit to it was an accurate measurement of the reservations Tesla has received. Although it may not be exclusively Model 3 reservations.

 

[Mkorpal]

I can guarantee some poor coder is in his boss's office getting a earful right about now.

 

[brianman]

I wonder if the reservation numbers are assigned when payment is received by Tesla as it is not a confirmed reservation until the deposit has been paid. Hence if there was a delay in the payment coming through then they would have an apparently out of sequence number.
I received my confirmation email quite a few hours after I placed my online reservation. Did those with out of sequence numbers have an unusually long delay before they received their confirmation email?

Mine was like 3 days, IIRC.

Edit: Wow, I recalled poorly. The email came on 4/1, but the online (My Tesla) stuff showed up later.

 

[brianman]

RIP. The fact it is gone lends credit to it was an accurate measurement of the reservations Tesla has received. Although it may not be exclusively Model 3 reservations.

It lends credit to any number of theories.

 

[Bimbels]

It lends credit to any number of theories.

Agreed. They are more than likely trying to avoid the eventual whining of people who perceive they aren't getting their cars "in order."

 

[Lump]

Owner, reserved 2 at the Las Vegas store ~10:15am
499XXX
499XXX
Separated by 16.

 

[WileyTheMan]

Glad I wasn't going crazy. I was combing through the code again over and over, wondering if I was missing it. Glad I took a screenshot of the code before it went bye bye.

 

[juanmedina]

4197XX
Placed order 3/31 just a few minutes before online reservations were supposed to be live.(~7pm?)
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+12345

I put my online reservation about two minutes before it when live 3/31 and my number is 43XXXXX when I looked yesterday. I am in the east coast South Carolina.

 

[zenmaster]

I wonder if the reservation numbers are assigned when payment is received by Tesla as it is not a confirmed reservation until the deposit has been paid. Hence if there was a delay in the payment coming through then they would have an apparently out of sequence number.
I received my confirmation email quite a few hours after I placed my online reservation. Did those with out of sequence numbers have an unusually long delay before they received their confirmation email?

Nope has nothing to do with confirmation email time.

 

[smythey]

I really hope this hasn't caused a headache for the fine folks at Tesla; that was not my intention at all.

I've been a bit unsettled the way this has blown up - I was expecting to have been proven incorrect quite quickly and then possibly subjected to some good-natured ridicule.

 

[zenmaster]

Agreed. They are more than likely trying to avoid the eventual whining of people who perceive they aren't getting their cars "in order."

Yes people would abuse it, and having that appear in the page wasn't useful to Tesla.