dmckinstry
Model X 2019
What do you think will happen if sufficient quantity of customers decide that the risks of business relationship with Tesla outweighs the benefits?
Quite frankly, I believe it would be their loss.
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What do you think will happen if sufficient quantity of customers decide that the risks of business relationship with Tesla outweighs the benefits?
Really?? Maybe your expectations have raised. Or maybe you're a fanboy when everything goes right for you. I have been reading your negative slant on Tesla's reality quite a bit lately. Tesla has not changed. They are still understaffed, trying to get out product, working on many different fronts (and then working on the inevitable fixes), and doing it superbly with where they are...
There was a phone call in between the blog post and dropping of the order. Now, how does one get Elon Musk on the phone? There must be something more to this.
Alsop tells of the time he was poised to invest in an online bank called X.com – until learning, literally days before NEA was to cut a check, that except for the company's founder, X.com's entire staff had quit. Sequoia Capital's legendary Mike Moritz, who can list Google, PayPal, and Yahoo! among his greatest hits, invested in X.com anyway – and ended up making Sequoia a bundle, Alsop says, when the startup was sold to PayPal. "There are times this business really mystifies me."
I must also admit that I am a little taken aback to be banned by Tesla. When I wrote a blog post about my BMW X1 called “My Car Makes Me Feel Stoopid”, the CEO of BMW didn’t take the car back.
I love how after 170 posts, Bonnie just drops in and breaks down the whole series of events in a couple of sentences. I am amazed by your intellect.If I'm invited to a party & I have to sit around for an extra hour or so ... then yes, the host should acknowledge and say sorry.
But it would be even MORE rude of me to choose not to complain directly to the host - but rather to go on facebook or twitter and start a tirade with 'Shame on You For Wasting My Time'. And if I did that, I'd expect never to be invited back. And rightfully so.
People who criticize need to put things in perspective. If you think a company with 1~2% revenue and probably engineering resources of any of those major auto companies, and close to zero marketing resources, could do EVERYTHING that matches or betters these big company you need to get out of your fantasy state. I'm just amazed that Tesla could continue to produce these amazing products and services. They must be putting in a super focused effort not to mention, unlike you and I, these are super smart and hard working people Tesla got there.
I think some are debating what Tesla's priorities should be, not saying that Tesla should do everything that the big auto companies are doing. Of course they can't, they don't have that kind of revenue.
You've got a crowd waiting, full of people who put down deposits in good faith, for a car which is 2 years overdue. To then make them wait for 2 hours is inexcusable, disrespectful and unprofessional and Musk deserved the public criticism. Feel free to ban me, Mr. Musk.
Those who weren't at the event were waiting too, obviously, but what may not be obvious is that the live streaming was screwed up. Instead of seeing a live feed of people standing around doing nothing and listening to loud music, people were getting error messages, and after about 25 minutes, seeing a logo screen. I don't know if it's fair to say that the problem was worse overall because it affected those who weren't there as well as those who were. It could be that the streaming issue was the reason for the delay and that Tesla didn't want to start until most potential viewers could see it. But then it came down to guesswork as to when it would start. I did pick up on a couple of Periscope feeds while I was waiting, and was nonplussed to see that I wasn't missing anything but people standing around.
Perhaps if Tesla had sent somebody to the stage to announce that there would be a delay due to technical problems, then people would have at least known what to expect. Musk didn't start off with any explanation. People don't know if the delay was due to a problem that couldn't have been anticipated or due to Musk wanting to stand around chatting. It's most likely that Musk was well aware of the time and wasn't delaying it just to be arrogant. Something held things up, and I have no way of knowing it it was due to something that Tesla should have reasonably anticipated. It's the lack of communication that was the issue. Tesla might have been justified in delaying the event or might have had no choice, but they also should have recognized that there would be complaints and that ignoring them was a bad idea.
You've got a crowd waiting, full of people who put down deposits in good faith, for a car which is 2 years overdue. To then make them wait for 2 hours is inexcusable, disrespectful and unprofessional and Musk deserved the public criticism. Feel free to ban me, Mr. Musk.
Yea but it was the presses fault for going over... lol
Yeah I sat through the livestream mess too, and it may well be that "technical difficulties" were at the root of the delay. Not a good sign from what after all is a technology company. And, this wasn't their first rodeo. I've sat through similar waits on their other events as well. The live audience should take precedence. If the internet thingie is broken, carry on with your presentation and have the video available for later viewing, imho.