Tesla Referral Program

[SW2Fiddler]

If you're on board with this way of leveraging Tesla's generosity and amplifying it, PM for my referral code and pass it forward to someone who's in the market. Or just do something similar with yours!

Update!

One order has been placed with my referral code (provided thru a Private Message, still not going to SPAM it out ) and the plan to provide an adapter publicly in the Destination City of New Orleans, LA is under way!
Thank you to the anonymous first buyer.

And again, thank you for reading.

Rick

 

[tinm]

Tangential but hopefully not orthogonal to this thread topic:

I recently spoke to a Product Specialist at a Tesla store. They were quite forthcoming about what it's like to work there. He loves the company, loves the product, loves the Tesla owner community. This person told me he gets paid $13 an hour to do sales at the store. I asked if he got a commission. He said they get paid a $50 bonus for each sale they make. That kinda floored me even though I am well aware of Elon's comments over the years about why Tesla does direct and online sales and about not creating a car-dealer salesperson commision culture at Tesla. This Product Specialist also added he has another job to make more money since his Tesla income isn't enough to live off of. He also said the company has a bias to hire young people and that if a, shall we say, no-longer-20-something manages to ever get a job at Tesla, it's hard for that person to ever get promoted.

For me at least this little data point puts the referral program in a different light. Product specialists have to sell 20 vehicles to get the same reward that an owner in the referral program can make selling just one car. I dunno, that made me wonder.

 

[markwj]

Latest global status, EU, AP, NA.

Bjarni has now caught up with Bjorn in EU, although Bjorn is back to showing the weird 72 tons/yr CO2 saved. He was at 3 orders before the weekend, so something 'bulk' happening there.

Junfeng is now closing in on Chihungjoe in Asia Pacific. He has seen steady growth over the contest.

North America is still open with Kevin maintaining his lead, but stagnated at 6 for some time now. Elie, Thomas and Peter are coming up fast behind.

 

[Freudianly]

Tangential but hopefully not orthogonal to this thread topic:

I recently spoke to a Product Specialist at a Tesla store. They were quite forthcoming about what it's like to work there. He loves the company, loves the product, loves the Tesla owner community. This person told me he gets paid $13 an hour to do sales at the store. I asked if he got a commission. He said they get paid a $50 bonus for each sale they make. That kinda floored me even though I am well aware of Elon's comments over the years about why Tesla does direct and online sales and about not creating a car-dealer salesperson commision culture at Tesla. This Product Specialist also added he has another job to make more money since his Tesla income isn't enough to live off of. He also said the company has a bias to hire young people and that if a, shall we say, no-longer-20-something manages to ever get a job at Tesla, it's hard for that person to ever get promoted.

For me at least this little data point puts the referral program in a different light. Product specialists have to sell 20 vehicles to get the same reward that an owner in the referral program can make selling just one car. I dunno, that made me wonder.

If you read the bio, you can blame it on Elon's father lack of empathy. Elon probably considers that his clients contributed much more to his company (and his endeavor to save life on earth) than regular salesmen (whether independent or his own) who just cost him money, since the Model S is such a great car that it sells itself.

 

[P85_DA]

Anyone need code pm me

 

[pmoa]

We all have codes to post. If you are reading this a pm would be the easiest way to gets grand off your dream car.

 

[MarcG]

Thought I'd have some fun with this and created a short video:

Tesla Referral $1000 DISCOUNT - YouTube

 

[Andyw2100]

Thought I'd have some fun with this and created a short video:

May the Force be with you.

 

[BoerumHill]

Tangential but hopefully not orthogonal to this thread topic:

I recently spoke to a Product Specialist at a Tesla store. They were quite forthcoming about what it's like to work there. He loves the company, loves the product, loves the Tesla owner community. This person told me he gets paid $13 an hour to do sales at the store. I asked if he got a commission. He said they get paid a $50 bonus for each sale they make. That kinda floored me even though I am well aware of Elon's comments over the years about why Tesla does direct and online sales and about not creating a car-dealer salesperson commision culture at Tesla. This Product Specialist also added he has another job to make more money since his Tesla income isn't enough to live off of. He also said the company has a bias to hire young people and that if a, shall we say, no-longer-20-something manages to ever get a job at Tesla, it's hard for that person to ever get promoted.

For me at least this little data point puts the referral program in a different light. Product specialists have to sell 20 vehicles to get the same reward that an owner in the referral program can make selling just one car. I dunno, that made me wonder.

:frown:

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Latest global status, EU, AP, NA.

Bjarni has now caught up with Bjorn in EU, although Bjorn is back to showing the weird 72 tons/yr CO2 saved. He was at 3 orders before the weekend, so something 'bulk' happening there.

Junfeng is now closing in on Chihungjoe in Asia Pacific. He has seen steady growth over the contest.

North America is still open with Kevin maintaining his lead, but stagnated at 6 for some time now. Elie, Thomas and Peter are coming up fast behind.

View attachment 90756

Björn posted on FB he has a meeting with Tesla today. All ten have finalized/confirmed, and he has two banked in case anyone cancels/refuses delivery.

 

[markwj]

Now, things are getting interesting. Below is latest for EU, AP and NA.

Three have 10 each in both EU and AP, so the winners there are locked down. Assuming nobody 'cheated' or is disqualified, the winners are Bjorn in EU and Chihungjoe in AP.

For NA, 4 others have now reached 6, but Kevin2686 has climbed two spots to break away with 8 orders.

P.S. No idea of the ordering within the same order number. It is clearly not alphabetical. But, also Chihungjoe clearly got to 10 first (as shown in the 2015-08-14 results, where he was at 10 and the next one behind him was at 5), but is #2 in the list.

 

[Jhall118]

The two NA leads are a joke.

Kevin2686 just posts around on every Tesla article selling his referral for $1,000.

Thomas920 created a webpage and advertised the hell out of it. Just google "Tesla Coupon" and click on one of the ads.

Then again, it doesn't hurt me, but it does make me wonder what the future of the program will be.

 

[Vitold]

Tangential but hopefully not orthogonal to this thread topic:

I recently spoke to a Product Specialist at a Tesla store. They were quite forthcoming about what it's like to work there. He loves the company, loves the product, loves the Tesla owner community. This person told me he gets paid $13 an hour to do sales at the store. I asked if he got a commission. He said they get paid a $50 bonus for each sale they make. That kinda floored me even though I am well aware of Elon's comments over the years about why Tesla does direct and online sales and about not creating a car-dealer salesperson commision culture at Tesla. This Product Specialist also added he has another job to make more money since his Tesla income isn't enough to live off of. He also said the company has a bias to hire young people and that if a, shall we say, no-longer-20-something manages to ever get a job at Tesla, it's hard for that person to ever get promoted.

For me at least this little data point puts the referral program in a different light. Product specialists have to sell 20 vehicles to get the same reward that an owner in the referral program can make selling just one car. I dunno, that made me wonder.

Another way to look at it would be that salesman can work 40 hours and sell nothing for $1000 (salary + benefits) while owner will get $0. The idea is to have sales force that does not care if their guest will buy or not. They are to provide information and educate.

 

[islandbayy]

The two NA leads are a joke.

Kevin2686 just posts around on every Tesla article selling his referral for $1,000.

Thomas920 created a webpage and advertised the hell out of it. Just google "Tesla Coupon" and click on one of the ads.

Then again, it doesn't hurt me, but it does make me wonder what the future of the program will be.

norman1454 is Google Adsensing the crap out of it now. Wonder if Tesla is removing these people from the competition?

I just hit 4 referrals for North America.

 

[islandbayy]

just doing a quick google search, looks like kevin2686, thomas920, and brooks7547 are spamming their link across tons of news articles and posts having any mention to tesla, and that's just what Google has already indexed. Perer6309, elie4476, sylvain3692, and myself look to be the top with 4 and 6 referrals respectively without spamming the heck out of the net, though, Google looks to have indexed my YouTube channel and gotten my link from that, but I'm trying to keep it clean.

 

[islandbayy]

Kevin just hit 9 referrals. Looks like the Win will be going to him with Unsportsman like behavior.

 

[Johan]

I wonder if anyone who ordered a Model S in the last weeks DIDN'T get the $1000 referral rebate? I would really feel bad for that person...

 

[markwj]

And as I open the envelope, the winners are...

Europe: Bjrn3169
Asia Pacific: Chihungjoe
North America: Kevin2686

Assuming of course that nobody gets disqualified, purchasers confirm and take delivery.

 

[Theo]

It is interesting that Tesla sold most of their cars in North America but so far only 1 person reached 10 referrals compared to 3 in other two regions. I would expect the opposite. Asia-Pacific performed much better than expected. Generally speaking, the promotion seems to have worked well.

 

[sundoc]

Hello all,

I tried searching for this but couldn't come up with anything... I've got a friend who has finalized his decision to purchase. He initially ordered but then was offered an inventory car of close enough specs and he went that route. Does anyone know if my referral can still be applied... the Store guy is looking this up as well.

 

[GasDoc]

Hello all,

I tried searching for this but couldn't come up with anything... I've got a friend who has finalized his decision to purchase. He initially ordered but then was offered an inventory car of close enough specs and he went that route. Does anyone know if my referral can still be applied... the Store guy is looking this up as well.

I was told in the Burlingame Service Center that the referral code can be applied to inventory cars. There's a field that the salesperson can enter the referral code. When I tried a Virginia code on the first day they announced the $2000 discount, it still applied a $1000 discount