Tesla Model S CPO Website - Now Live

[Cyclone]

The residual is of the Volt $24k - market value is $19k

I would actually be better off taking delivery of the Model S and trying to sell it for a profit and then putting a deposit on another one, if I wanted to financially flip something.

I actually prefer the green to the gray, and you got the upgraded stereo (though yesterday I sat in a regular stereo and it was fine for my taste -- I could always put in the NVX subwoofer as the upgrade). I have no need for the rear child seats, but no biggie losing them. To me, it really came down to cost since I am not performance oriented. I see the value in your car, as its a great deal. However, the performance improvement would be lost on me for the $11k difference if you flipped it at cost.

 

[ecarfan]

Hank, I just saw this and wanted to say "thank you!" Awesome work. I'm puzzled as to why Tesla's CPO web pages don't have the functionality that your page offers!

Here's something I threw together to consolidate all the different locales the CPO site is filtering the cars by.
Tesla CPO Consolidator
This lists all the cars across all the areas, and is sortable and searchable. There are 144 cars listed.

 

[Lloyd]

Yep, then you're stuck with the Volt until the end of the lease. Check your paperwork. There is likely an early termination penalty, but it may be worthwhile to pay that rather than two payments.

http://www.leaseguide.com/articles/terminate/

 

[1ton]

They didnt give me anything. I called and did a cc hold and I got a generic email from tesla introducing me to the "Delivery Experience Specialist". I have emailed and called her and no reply since yesterday. I texted the local advisor and he said he's working on it.

I I have a vin number. That's it.

Call Tesla Sales with your order number (RN Number) from your online sales confirmation / PDF

Sales

Toll free: (888) 51-TESLA or (888) 518-3752

 

[Drucifer]

However, the performance improvement would be lost on me for the $11k difference if you flipped it at cost.

Oh, I would put it on Autotrader and EBay for maybe $79.5k and see if I had any bites. Not that I am going to do that because the specs of this are are unique and EXACTLY what I want.

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Yep, then you're stuck with the Volt until the end of the lease. Check your paperwork. There is likely an early termination penalty, but it may be worthwhile to pay that rather than two payments.

http://www.leaseguide.com/articles/terminate/

I figure since I have some trips this summer where superchargers won't be until late fall / next year, I am just going to run out the miles on the Volt doing roadtrips at the 40 mpg the Volt gets when using gas, rather than renting a car that might get less or running up miles on my wife's car. Or just put a car cover on the Tesla until the end of summer and not drive it (I doubt this will be possible :wink. I will figure out a way to make a decent value proposition out of the situation.

 

[Krrphx]

They didnt give me anything. I called and did a cc hold and I got a generic email from tesla introducing me to the "Delivery Experience Specialist". I have emailed and called her and no reply since yesterday. I texted the local advisor and he said he's working on it.

I I have a vin number. That's it.

I'm in the same boat. I was actually working with a local advisor when the official CPO program went live - he's given me the contact info for my DS and I have yet to receive a response. Not asking for much, just a general idea that Tesla is aware of me and that there's some sort of general plan in place as far as the timeline is concerned.

 

[HankLloydRight]

Hank, I just saw this and wanted to say "thank you!" Awesome work. I'm puzzled as to why Tesla's CPO web pages don't have the functionality that your page offers!

You're welcome! In this case, I think Tesla is very "marketing" oriented to sell CPO and not "technology" oriented. Therefore, you end up with a bunch of marketing types on a white board making something that looks really good, but is functionally brain-dead. I mean, all they had to do to improve their system 1000% was to add a "All Areas" selection for location, and add a few filters for trim, color, interior and year.. and that would solve 80% of why I created the consolidator.

I'm not even in the market for a CPO car.. I just wanted to be able to see *all cars* for sale at one time, and have some filtering to winnow out the models I'm not interested in.

And it's fun.

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Today 4 cars were today -- and 10 cars SOLD!

 

[MsElectric]

You're welcome! In this case, I think Tesla is very "marketing" oriented to sell CPO and not "technology" oriented. Therefore, you end up with a bunch of marketing types on a white board making something that looks really good, but is functionally brain-dead. I mean, all they had to do to improve their system 1000% was to add a "All Areas" selection for location, and add a few filters for trim, color, interior and year.. and that would solve 80% of why I created the consolidator.

I'm not even in the market for a CPO car.. I just wanted to be able to see *all cars* for sale at one time, and have some filtering to winnow out the models I'm not interested in.

And it's fun.

I agree. This is a great example of what happens when people who have the faintest clue about their customers and the information their customers need end up designing an interface. If you are particular about the options and trim level of the car you likely could not care less where the car is located. You just want to find your car.

I've seen the inventory search feature at the Tesla store and it is shame it is not open to the public and an even bigger shame that the Tesla employees at the stored are using a completely dumb interface to find cars for their customers. It literally takes tham about 10 minutes to see if there is a car available that matches my criteria when it should take perhaps 1 minute.

Tesla should hire you as a UI design consultant

 

[HankLloydRight]

Makes me wonder.. if over the course of the quarter, if the CPO website accurately reflects CPO cars offered for sale and subsequently sold, will our results match what TM may release w/r/t CPO sales/profit/contribution to the bottom line.

It will be interesting to see if they announce anything like this at earnings time, and if it jibes with our data.

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Tesla should hire you as a UI design consultant

Well, gee, thanks.. but as anyone can tell, I'm all about maximizing functionality, but not necessarily (visual) design.

But that's OK, because I'll take anything that works well over anything that looks pretty (excepting my g/f and my P85+, of course!)

 

[MsElectric]

Makes me wonder.. if over the course of the quarter, if the CPO website accurately reflects CPO cars offered for sale and subsequently sold, will our results match what TM may release w/r/t CPO sales/profit/contribution to the bottom line.

It will be interesting to see if they announce anything like this at earnings time, and if it jibes with our data.

You are polling every hour right? So if a car is offered half past the hour and someone buys it right away, your system would "miss" that sale entirely. I realize the chance of this happening is unlikely but it could happen so discrepancies are possible.

Your sold data should still be pretty close to whatever they may report. I suppose it is possible that some customer might buy a vehicle before it makes it to the public interface. I wonder if they keep any cars "in the back" that you need to ask to be shown like at a shoe store

 

[Kalud]

You're welcome! In this case, I think Tesla is very "marketing" oriented to sell CPO and not "technology" oriented. Therefore, you end up with a bunch of marketing types on a white board making something that looks really good, but is functionally brain-dead. I mean, all they had to do to improve their system 1000% was to add a "All Areas" selection for location, and add a few filters for trim, color, interior and year.. and that would solve 80% of why I created the consolidator.

I'm not even in the market for a CPO car.. I just wanted to be able to see *all cars* for sale at one time, and have some filtering to winnow out the models I'm not interested in.

And it's fun.

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Today 4 cars were today -- and 10 cars SOLD!

If you eventually have the time, I'd like to follow Canadian CPO cars, I did a quick Excel manually but if you can do it automatically that would be awesome!

Pre-Owned ModelS | Tesla Motors Canada

Currently 17 cars being offered. Since they are listed in CAD currency they should probably not be mixed with US cars...

 

[Drucifer]

You are polling every hour right?

Well, that and between Friday and Monday they sold ??? (maybe 15-20) cars, plus the cars they sold from the spreadsheets that were emailed out before the website went live.

 

[HankLloydRight]

If you eventually have the time, I'd like to follow Canadian CPO cars, I did a quick Excel manually but if you can do it automatically that would be awesome!

Pre-Owned ModelS | Tesla Motors Canada

Currently 17 cars being offered. Since they are listed in CAD currency they should probably not be mixed with US cars...

Luckily, Tesla uses identical code, HTML and Ajax calls.. so adding Canada cars was pretty simple. What slowed me down was that I found a bug that should have prevented US cars being loaded correctly today.. I don't know how that code was working (loading options) at all.. but it was. And now it's actually working correctly. <shrug>.

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If anybody is "in the know" I'd love to see what these two option codes mean:

BS00 NOBULL00
BS01 YESBULL00

 

[Cyclone]

When I read that before sharing the link to the options decoder, I had a fun thought what it may be, but that was just my own quirkiness thinking.

 

[MikeC]

If anybody is "in the know" I'd love to see what these two option codes mean:

BS00 NOBULL00
BS01 YESBULL00

I think the 2nd one is actually for the Toyota Mirai. :wink:

 

[Drucifer]

When I read that before sharing the link to the options decoder, I had a fun thought what it may be, but that was just my own quirkiness thinking.

So what is it. The Bull$hit level of the reservation holder?

 

[brucet999]

This could be a good resource to judge depreciation if one could know what a particular configuration cost at the time a CPO car was new.

Does anyone have past pricing info?

 

[1ton]

I'm in the same boat. I was actually working with a local advisor when the official CPO program went live - he's given me the contact info for my DS and I have yet to receive a response. Not asking for much, just a general idea that Tesla is aware of me and that there's some sort of general plan in place as far as the timeline is concerned.

I just got information back. So they no longer use Auto Trader for trade ins (at least in FL). I guess this is all very new so everything is a little confusing. Hope you hear soon.

 

[SmartElectric]

adding Canada cars was pretty simple

Brilliant, thanks!
Reputation points coming your way.

 

[1ton]

I also learned that you can add an extended warranty on a CPO.