Right.
That's
the problem
Some people are now being allowed to buy a preorder, still vaporware, product for a lower price than some
others already paid for it with no way to get the difference back.
That's unprecedented and insane.
This was a short term statement. Come on, the prices were fluctuating all the time.
Not really.
First part doesn't even make sense... You're suggesting they meant "It's cheaper if you buy before you take delivery, it'll cost more later, except then it won't so you're actually better off just waiting...."
Which isn't, at all, what they actually said.
Second part- the prices
never dropped down to, or below, the pre-delivery price in the course of the several years they were telling you cheapest price is pre-delivery.
Prices fell on
already delivered hardware and again- nobody's surprised or mad about that here. This is an utterly different case.
AWD was $5k, then $4k(I bought here), then $5k again, now back to $4k.
Oh, and guess what? some folks who ordered the car at 5k, and then the price dropped to 4k before delivery?
Tesla refunded the overpayment
Because they knew the buyer could just cancel and reorder at the lower price anyway.
Folks are simply asking for
the same thing regarding FSD.
The statement about higher "after delivery" price - I saw $1k more for EAP, then $500 more, then $1k more again.
Notice what those all have in common? They're
all higher after delivery. You know, the thing Tesla actually promised.
Now? not so much.
How about Chinese getting EAP for free these days? Does it make me bitter about $5k I paid?
That's pretty nonsequitor- prices vary heavily between countries- in Chinas case it was an attempt to work around tariff issues that will be jacking up car prices- but even then it applied to
everyone there at the same time.
The only people who got the discount are those not able to pay for it in the first place.
Also total nonsense.
There's slews of people here in all the previous "Should I buy FSD" threads who all make it clear they could
afford to buy it- but chose not to for various reasons- Mostly "I don't want to spend any money on vaporware"
I was one of em for a while. The only thing that changed my mind was shortly before delivery we got news that HW3 was free with FSD
and that the first FSD-only features would be here this spring.
So, entirely because Tesla told me it'd be
more expensive later I dropped 3k back in September.
Now it's not even spring yet, FSD features still aren't here, HW3 still isn't here.... but my 3k is gone and all other previous owners who didn't fall for Teslas lie and waited get it cheaper than I did even post delivery.