I’m a glass half empty kind of person.
Really? I don’t get the “glass half empty” type of person vibe from your posts.
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I’m a glass half empty kind of person.
Yes, pulling the trigger to by a new model 3 and having to wait is agonizing for some of us including myself. I ordered on October 23rd in South Carolina and my order stated 6 - 10 weeks. Look like I still have a while to go. No news from Tesla yet.
We need to remember that Tesla does not have a dealership network. Dealerships were created back in the Henry Ford days when Ford did not have enough capital to distribute/sale their vehicles. Dealerships were created by individuals getting local business loans to startup. I'm not sure of the terms but dealers take procession of cars and them must pay manufacturer with the dealership sitting on the inventory not the manufacturer. Dealers then learned to make money of the service of the vehicles in many different ways. I wonder if one factor of Tesla not using the dealership model is because of the low maintenance of their cars. Dealerships make money from service.
Tesla has service centers but not dealerships so local inventory is somewhat limited. More so now than back in the summer as the Europe and China market has become larger. The car industry is a tough business and other manufactures make cars based on a guess to the number of sales for the year. If they are wrong on the guess it could be a real financial burden. The whole Tesla business model is to try and streamline the ultimate delivery of a car to the consumer. From the few choices for builds to lack of local inventory. Tesla does not want to have inventory sitting around waiting to be sold.
We are still in the early adoption phase of EV's and Tesla. One day it might change, but we just need to show some patients.
Did you order our find in inventory? Order date??Sooooo worth the wait Guys!! Be patient. Everyone is doing there absolute best. I am loving my 3!!
*or* sorryDid you order our find in inventory? Order date??
Perhaps the exquisite anticipation adds to the adventure with these great cars!
I ordered my M3 LR on November 9. The Design Studio indicated a 5 to 7 week delivery timeframe. Just for giggles, I called and spoke with a Customer Service rep only a few days later. Of course he was amused that I seemed so anxious, but he talked to his boss with me listening in. That gentleman could be heard clicking keys and muttering, then said, "I'd say that the customer can realistically expect his car around December 12".
No VIN yet, but I won't get my feathers ruffled until that date turns out wrong by a big margin.
Factories are places that are prey to variables; I worked as an assembly scheduler for a major earthmoving manufacturer. Everything is going well for a customer's machine, then a steel supplier is late with an order, etc, and there goes the delivery date.
Would the company love to hit all the marks? You bet. But its just not always going to work that way.
Because of my experience, and not as much that I've been Tesla fanboy from the start, I'm willing to give them some slack and not try to believe they are conspiring against me with delivery dates.
Perhaps the exquisite anticipation adds to the adventure with these great cars!
Yes, it seems order date has very little to do with delivery date. I ordered 9/26 and I will be very fortunate to get it by end of year on Big Island. They keep pushing manufacture date further and further away.Any Sept orders still waiting? I didn't realize how little the order date mattered for delivery timeframe, its all about location.
yes..ordered septAny Sept orders still waiting? I didn't realize how little the order date mattered for delivery timeframe, its all about location.
It seems that Long Range got preference over SR+. I ordered mine on 10/27 in Aventura and have yet to receive a VIN. Did you get a VIN? And when?