Kichwas
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@dd564: on the benefit of doubt side the last year has seen dozens of attempts by Wall Street short sellers to claim all the car sales are fake news, tesla is hiding the cars on lots over in Area 54, or selling them to dealers (Tesla doesn’t sell to dealers at all, period, btw. It is actually stuck in lawsuits and lobbying state governments over this very point). Etc...
So... most here have a lot if good reason to be suspicious of this entire thread. I am not sure, I think Electroman was actually trying to make fun if the thread by posting one of the old short seller claims about dealers...
If this is genuine...
Then you’re just seeing deliveries arrive. Tesla hands the cars over in appointments. When I git my car it was part of a day full of deliveries and the lot was full of cars while the waiting room was full of people and “delivery specialists” were handing over the cars to each of us.
Those hand overs involve the usual steps of paperwork, plus some training on using a very different kind if car. So they do it in batches of people or special home deliveries, etc.
And as quarters end, they ramp this up.
On January 1st, the tax credit for getting an EV cuts in half, so there is a desperate attempt by both buyers and Tesla right now to get as many cars as possible resolved in the next few days. Extra full lots are to be expected.
I ordered my car by visiting a Tesla lot the day before Q3 ended. I walked onto a lot full of cars... But I couldn’t buy that day as I had to wait for by old diesel to be bought back by VW.
I went back 2 days later to talk to them and put down the first of my downpayment and the lot was empty... they had even cleared out the floor model for test drives and we had to wait a bit for another test drive car to arrive... (I am close to the factory or that would have been a delay of “come back another day”).
So... most here have a lot if good reason to be suspicious of this entire thread. I am not sure, I think Electroman was actually trying to make fun if the thread by posting one of the old short seller claims about dealers...
If this is genuine...
Then you’re just seeing deliveries arrive. Tesla hands the cars over in appointments. When I git my car it was part of a day full of deliveries and the lot was full of cars while the waiting room was full of people and “delivery specialists” were handing over the cars to each of us.
Those hand overs involve the usual steps of paperwork, plus some training on using a very different kind if car. So they do it in batches of people or special home deliveries, etc.
And as quarters end, they ramp this up.
On January 1st, the tax credit for getting an EV cuts in half, so there is a desperate attempt by both buyers and Tesla right now to get as many cars as possible resolved in the next few days. Extra full lots are to be expected.
I ordered my car by visiting a Tesla lot the day before Q3 ended. I walked onto a lot full of cars... But I couldn’t buy that day as I had to wait for by old diesel to be bought back by VW.
I went back 2 days later to talk to them and put down the first of my downpayment and the lot was empty... they had even cleared out the floor model for test drives and we had to wait a bit for another test drive car to arrive... (I am close to the factory or that would have been a delay of “come back another day”).