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And what does your estimates show for each of the different configurations?Current owner: Reserved 12/18/17 in Texas. Will be waiting with popcorn to see non-owners heads explode if I get in invite before they do.
And what does your estimates show for each of the different configurations?
Current owner: Reserved 12/18/17 in Texas. Will be waiting with popcorn to see non-owners heads explode if I get in invite before they do.
I got my invitation to configure last night!
- Tesla Employees / family - Living in California
- Current Tesla owners - Living in California, Line waiters
- First time buyers - Living in California, Line waiters (probably same priority as [5] )
- Tesla Employees / family - outside California
- Current Tesla owners - outside California, Line waiters
- First time buyers - outside California, Line waiters
- First time buyers, Reveal day online reservation (but non-line waiter)
- First time buyers, post reveal online reservation
Looks like my initial heurestic was off the mark! bump all owners to the top
Wonder if this is correct now?
- Tesla Employees / family - Living in California
- Tesla Employees / family - outside California
- Current Tesla owners - Living in California, Line waiters
- Current Tesla owners - outside California, Line waiters
- Current Tesla owners - anywhere, reserved anytime!!
- First time buyers - Living in California, Line waiters (probably same priority as [5] )
- First time buyers - outside California, Line waiters
- First time buyers, Reveal day online reservation (but non-line waiter)
- First time buyers, post reveal online reservation
My only suggestion would be to change "line waiters" to "first day reservations in-store" or even just "first day reservations" or just "based on time of reservation".
Tesla has no idea who was actually waiting on line that day. They weren't prepared for it (for the most part), and to tag people who were actually waiting on line, or 'when the line ended' is a terribly murkey task to do for every store across the country or globe that was taking M3 reservations that day. Of course I don't know this for sure, but I would bet dollars to donuts there wasn't any corporate directive to the stores to keep track of "when the line ends" and report that back to HQ.
What if there was an early line, then a lull, then another line formed later in the day? Are those people still "line waiters"? What if someone just wandered up as the line was ending, or shortly thereafter? Are they a "line waiter"? Nobody had a sign on their back "LAST LINE WAITER".
Sure, Tesla could sit down and analyze the rate of reservations for each store and take a wild ass guess at when the "line ended", but that's super subjective, and bound to have false positives and false negatives. Also, a colossal waste of time just to figure out the invite order and exclude people who didn't happen to wait in line, even if it was only for a one minute gap at end of the "line".
And on top of that, all the stores, and at the M3 Reveal event, all reservations were taken using the same Tesla.com website. So even people who reserved online that first day used the exact same interface as everyone else. Of course, Tesla can track those reservations by IP address (since they use a corporate VPN across all their locations), so it's in theory possible to separate out the people who reserved in-store versus at home. But did they? Would they? Possibly, but this still doesn't separate out actual "line waiters" from everyone else that reserved that day who didn't wait in line.
This is all the same reason why there's not going to be a "special gift" for the "line waiters" besides the lithograph they sent to all first day (or two) reservations.
Tesla knows who ordered in the store on day one. There is no way they don't know.
Sure they do. Absolutely they do.I agree! But they don't know people who waited in line versus people who slept-in that morning and reserved later in the day.
I agree! But they don't know people who waited in line versus people who slept-in that morning and reserved later in the day.
Sure they do. Absolutely they do.
Store orders have to look differently than online orders. I have a physical receipt from the store. All they have to do is look at the receipts they gave out that day in the amount of $1k.
Would you suggest that Tesla lost all of their receipts?
ah ... i get what he means ... correct ... i used the term 'Line waiter' loosely ... I just meant people that did the in-store reservation that day ... not people that actually had to line up.
Tesla definitely knows who waited in line and who didn't. Its not even a question.
Sure they do. Absolutely they do.
Who cares?If they absolutely do know and "it's not even a question", please tell me how they would differentical an actual "line waiter" from someone who just walked into a store after the last "line waiter" had reserving their car? Or the next person one minute later? Or the person after that two minutes later? As far as the data is concerned, those last three people are indistinguishable from the last actual line waiter would could have been waiting in line for hours.