My experience continues to go from bad to worse.
I ordered via the Electric Car Scheme on the 20th July, which goes via Gateway2Lease (a lease broker) to LeasePlan; it took two months for the lease documents to be issued and an order to actually be placed, and then I finally start getting my RN, get assigned a VIN, then finally get a confirmed delivery date of 17/10.
Then, my app updates to remove both my delivery date and my VIN. Tesla texts me to say my order is on hold.
Turns out there's been some 'disagreement' between the pricing Tesla is asking for and what was promised to LeasePlan/Gateway2Lease for getting X amount of orders in September, and Tesla are now trying to charge higher pricing over and above the discount the other parties were given for getting X amount of orders in - because of this, 50 orders going via The Electric Car Scheme have been put on hold, and I'm now in a position where the car I was matched to will likely go to someone else, and the stock that was just delivered will likely be sold whilst I'm waiting for this situation to be resolved - pushing my delivery date likely into next quarter due to the way Tesla ship batches.
It's absolutely unbelievable that you can place an order at X price, and Tesla, in full knowledge that they won't be in a position to make delivery until the following month, will then change the price 2 weeks before I'm supposed to take delivery. Tesla, the lease company and the broker are all fighting over their slice of the pie which is the difference in discount vs OTR price, and meanwhile I'm left in the lurch.
Honestly, the salary sacrifice savings aren't worth it. I should have just bought this thing normally. My experience with The Electric Car Scheme in the first part of this process was woeful, and now it seems like Tesla/LeasePlan/Gateway2Lease care more about squeezing every bit of money out of each other than making promised deliveries to customers.