Did you order the Plaid from late December to mid January? Did you order something other than 6 seats then get upgraded("downgraded") to 6 seats for free?
I have this crazy conspiracy theory that if you ordered in the last month and then you got upgraded for free because of the seat config restrictions, that Tesla may be trying to shock some into canceling their orders. Many who place an order for many months out aren't planning on getting them so fast and many won't even be ready for the following types of reasons:
- Need to sell existing car.
- Loan approval timeline.
- Your wrap guy is 3 months out.
- Your existing lease isn't up and you were ordering based on EDD month to roughly coincide with lease end.
I'm sure I'm missing a bunch. But if I were a company that offered a bunch of $6500 upgrades that I didn't want to in order to keep the contract price agreed upon, and if those orders were originally 10 months out, how many would cancel because they're not ready if I just turned around and said your car would be ready in a week instead of October? Then when you are ready, you re-order but at the new current base price.