HankLloydRight
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Maybe a dumb question, but shouldn't it be fairly common for Tesla to "transfer" a VIN to someone else? Shouldn't this happen every time a used Tesla is sold? Seems like they should have a better process, but perhaps they are just really bogged down.
Yes, but apparently Tesla is a bit miffed over all the Model 3 reservation transfers which were supposed to be "non-transferrable."
I think they're slowly learning that imposing such restrictions on something so easily circumvented isn't going to work going forward.
There's only two options, really. (A) No transfers allowed whatsoever, no exceptions. The car must be reserved, bought, titled, registered and financed in the person's name who made the reservation, or (B) Allow all transfers without restrictions. There is absolutely no middle ground.
The examples I've written about before is if under (A) they only allow transfers to "immediate family members." My real brother has a different last name than I do. How am I going to prove to Tesla we are actually brothers? My wife who has two grown kids from a previous marriage, technically they are my step-kids and under most definitions, would be "immediate family". Again, how would we prove that? Different names, different resident addresses. Who at Tesla is qualified to start validating wedding licenses, birth certificates, and divorce decrees?
How would Tesla tell the difference between those two examples above, and me transferring a reservation to some person I just sold the reservation to for a profit? They simply can't.
Now maybe their 'transfer' staff is overwhelmed, sure. But it shouldn't be hard to build or enhanced their systems to automate much of what needs to be actually transferred once the title/registration is validated with the new account owner.