ev-now
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Maybe, but looking at the historic sold/removed list there are very, very few which 'sell' in the 6 digits - and those that do are better optioned.
In fact I looked over the historic data again tonight and am not sure I understand Tesla's pricing strategy (assuming there is one). Of the 36 pages and 720 vehicles 'sold' you only need to go 6 pages (120 vehicles) in before the prices are in the 70s.
On the available site, you have to go further than that in the available 240 vehicles to get below 80K.
My take away is that about 15M of the CPO inventory is not priced to move, it is instead priced to substantiate a new sale of a lower spec vehicle instead. Indeed many of the advisors will quickly steer you from CPO to similarly prices, lower optioned, inventory vehicles.
Now having $16M of inventory CPO/INV does not really help the financial picture for Tesla - so it's clearly a sales tool. And the $16M also is not that interesting to realize, especially if allowing the CPOs to go at lower prices pushes down the private sale price and reduces the illusion (or fixing) of private sale pricing.
So the off-menu CPOs which are sold at lower prices help to move aging stock - while not going into the 'sold/removed' stats ...
Bottom line, CPOs are really selling for mid-70s or less, everything else is just a positioning price for new and inventory sales.
Just my opinion, after tracking it for a couple of months as an active potential buyer.
