It’s really pretty easy - it doesn’t take a savant to realize that a car still in transit from the factory hasn’t been rejected by a customer (and again, there are hundreds/thousands available with this status right now).
I also took delivery personally of an inventory model last quarter with a ~$3k discount. It was pristine and came off the line 5 days before I drove off with it. There was no way to distinguish this car from any other brand new car on the lot.
There are countless examples of others on this forum doing exactly the same.
I’ve been around here a long time and it’s easy enough to take a stab at how many people are actually rejecting VINs on a daily basis. It’s a microscopic number, even in an Internet forum environment like this where problems are greatly amplified.
Am I “guessing” that a “teeny tiny fraction” of the thousands of currently available inventory cars have not been damaged or rejected by a customer? Sure. But it’s a rather educated guess, and anybody who thinks all of these cars are discounted because they’re rejects is either deluded or just flatly not paying attention.
There are over a hundred Model 3s available for delivery to my zip code right now (the inventory site seems to stop loading at 100 cars so there’s probably many more). The great majority of them, including the ones with the highest discounts, are all “in transit” from the factory. These are brand new cars in indistinguishable condition from any other brand new Tesla (which is to say - highly variable
). Full stop.
