I don't dispute the other points, but eight hours was a lot longer than I spent. Maybe two hours, so about the same as driving time to a store. The second from last time I purchased a car from a dealer, the time spent at the dealer during delivery was over eight hours. (I believe they really hated me because the manufacturer set the price on a special deal and they couldn't charge the $5K extra they were gouging others.)
You REALLY only spent 2 hours to buy a car, getting a loan and selling your car? Man, you should become a consultant and teach your process to car dealers everywhere. You ll make millions!
(adding an aside here... really just on selling car alone, assuming you don't shop around, and just drive to carmax and have it assessed and take whatever they give you, takes more than 2 hours)
There are also lots of time consuming stuff after all that's done too and Tesla does a really terrible job at those. For example getting title work to customers on time (so their temp tags don't expire), DMV stuff, state fees, taxes, licence plate etc. When you buy online, you have to take care all of those which can take hours and hours (and physical time to go to those places).
For my last BMW, the dealership took care all of that. So literally the total time for me to buy a car, sell mine, get financing, and all paper works done was the amount of time I spent at the dealership. It's MUCH less than buying a Tesla online and dealing with all those paper work on my own. Buying online was a huge hassle way way more complicated than filing taxes. Honestly I don't think the average person can complete those tasks without messing up somewhere.
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