tmruwart
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I believe the reservation numbers span the Tesla automotive products so they might seem somewhat random.Of the increasingly numerous CA/TX reservation holders who have received invitations to configure their Cybertruck orders, we've seen none that were not in the 112xxxx range. That suggests that reservation numbers are anything but random.
More likely is that Tesla reservation numbers, issued sequentially, span the range of their products, hence the opaqueness that might sometimes seem to present.
Building a database order system that issued random order numbers would be highly unusual, with no apparent benefit.
In August 2021 I placed my order for a Model Y and a CyberTruck and those two reservation numbers were very close together which makes sense based on my previous statement.
As for why the reservation numbers associated with people who opted for the CT Foundation Series being "random", that makes sense too. This is because the Foundation Series was offered to anyone who wanted to pay a premium for an early CT thereby allowing them to jump ahead in the reservation queue regardless of their reservation number. Hence the reservation numbers associated with Foundation Series CyberTrucks will appear to be random - those peeps just paid to jump to the head of the line while the rest of us have to patiently wait in line... like at Disney when you are in line making slow progress thru the waiting area and you round that corner only to realize it is yet another waiting area, and another and another but eventually, like 4 hours later, you make it to the ride... which lasts 90 seconds....