Tesla Model 3 in Australia

[Lozza12]

There’s a rumour floating around that a price increase is imminent at the end of the week due to the state of the currency. Make of it what you will.

Seems very unlikely for those of us with an Order Agreement showing the amount to be invoiced.

They have already hedged the currency at a suboptimal rate for buyers too.

 

[Renewablekid]

Seems very unlikely for those of us with an Order Agreement showing the amount to be invoiced.

They have already hedged the currency at a suboptimal rate for buyers too.

Obviously not going to affect current orders.

Was more for people who are planning on ordering or holding off.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

So New Zealand has beaten Australia in another crucial sport

It’s interesting that when the poms beat us this morning, it wasn’t by 1 wicket, but by 8 more 4s, 3 more 6s & a partridge in a pear tree.
NZ would know all about this scoring system...

 

[one4spl]

(I'd like to earn as much interest on those funds as I can before letting them go!)

I think you can suck up the $57 in interest you'd save :-D

$100,000 * 3% / 52 weeks = $57.69

This hardly seems like the time to be stuffing about over the value of next week's coffee budget.

 

[jyavenard]

I’d get a bank cheque from your bank and walk it to their bank.

The BSB provided is 248-074, incredibly enough that links to "Citibank, TESLA MOTORS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD" they have their own BSB number !!

Still a long walk from Melbourne to just drop a cheque.

 

[jyavenard]

I was under the impression they wanted the invoice paid 7 days before delivery, could be wrong. You could test if paying later delays delivery...

Well, I only just got the invoice and delivery is next Monday, I've already failed that requirement

 

[jgdc]

I think you can suck up the $57 in interest you'd save :-D

$100,000 * 3% / 52 weeks = $57.69

This hardly seems like the time to be stuffing about over the value of next week's coffee budget.

You are being very generous assuming getting 3% in a working acct and then not paying tax on it! Mine at 1.5% and my company tax rate is more like $21 net a week.

 

[Grenadine]

Good luck getting 3%!

 

[andygen21]

You are being very generous assuming getting 3% in a working acct and then not paying tax on it! Mine at 1.5% and my company tax rate is more like $21 net a week.

I've paid mine now, but I had mine sitting in my mortgage offset account. meaning I was essentially saving ~3.5% interest, tax free.

 

[jgdc]

I've paid mine now, but I had mine sitting in my mortgage offset account. meaning I was essentially saving ~3.5% interest, tax free.

That is the sensible way of doing it. Keep it in redraw or offset and earn nothing (hence no tax) but save the equivalent of your variable HL rate. My day job is finance and you would be shocked how many people have a mortgage that allows this and leave 10s of thousands of dollars sitting in an acct earning 0.5%.

 

[jyavenard]

Good luck getting 3%!

It's sitting on my offset account, so that is saving me more than 3% (3.39% as of today). Anyhow, points raised earlier that it would be infuriating to miss the delivery date if my payment hadn't cleared on time.

So I've paid just then.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where everyone is ready to give their money away to Apple.

 

[Tom Alexander]

I'm glad i got this off ebay as I feel day on reservation holders will never get their little something special.

 

[ICUDoc]

Kota docked about 12.30pm

Veda, how do you ID ships? I'm told there is a Tesla-loaded ship in the Tasman Sea slowed by bad weather- any idea how I would ID this one??

 

[Russian]

Well, I only just got the invoice and delivery is next Monday, I've already failed that requirement

They are asking for funds cleared in their account 48 hours before delivery.

It takes 24-48 hours to transfer funds depending on the bank. I got the invoice today at lunch after a call at 9:30am, and went to process the EFT request at 4pm.

The funds should get to Citibank between 4pm Tuesday and 4pm on Wednesday. I'm assuming most bank processes run overnight, so will likely be there by Wednesday morning, which should be about 48 hours before my pickup time on Friday at 9am... Cutting it close

 

[Anubis]

There’s a rumour floating around that a price increase is imminent at the end of the week due to the state of the currency. Make of it what you will.

I have my test drive on Wednesday this week.
I hope "end of this week" means over the weekend. This would make sense for the start of the next quarter.

 

[PJF000]

I'm glad i got this off ebay as I feel day on reservation holders will never get their little something special.

No. Everyone should have got one of these.

 

[Anubis]

Good luck getting 3%!

Very easy to get 3+% if the money is coming out of a home loan.

 

[jyavenard]

They are asking for funds cleared in their account 48 hours before delivery.

I didn't read a 48 hours requirement anywhere.

The invoice states:
The beneficiary account number listed above is unique to this order. Cleared funds are required in our
account prior to the release of any vehicle. This tax invoice only is valid/executable upon delivery.

Cheques of any kind are not accepted.

In any case, I think you'll be fine. Though seeing on how swamped they are, I'd be more concerned that they screw it up somehow and overlooked that the payment did arrive.

 

[Tom Alexander]

No. Everyone should have got one of these.

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Yeah, I got that. there was also the die cast car I have that all the US first day people got.

 

[andygen21]

That is the sensible way of doing it. Keep it in redraw or offset and earn nothing (hence no tax) but save the equivalent of your variable HL rate. My day job is finance and you would be shocked how many people have a mortgage that allows this and leave 10s of thousands of dollars sitting in an acct earning 0.5%.

50% of people are below average intelligence