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Order your car and choose where you want to pick it up...it doesn't get any simpler or fair than that. |
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Manufacturers are also being ripped off by them with ridiculous ADM charges a lot of car companies could learn a thing or two from how Tesla sells their cars and some have already announced they will be adopting many of their online methods |
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exactly....Tesla figured out a way to cut out the middleman, and pocket the ADM for themselves when the supply vs demand is in their favor. |
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There are plenty of no-haggle dealers and if you & your neighbor both want the same BMW price then go to one and pay the same no-haggle price and Bob's Your Uncle. So why don't you always do that? Because your fear is I got a lower price than you, and now you're a sucker paying your no-haggle price! What Tesla has done is simply institutionalized sucker-dom: now you're all suckers. But, hey, if everyone gets screwed then I guess you don't feel as bad about it? The point is, no-haggle is available today but it's not popular because you're pissed I got a better deal than you, and you'd feel better if next time I get the same shitty price as you. TRY THIS THOUGHT EXPERIMENT Tomorrow Tesla announces 200 new dealers; you can still order MSRP from Tesla or buy from a dealer where you may get a better deal. Do you & your neighbor: (a.) Just keep paying MSRP from Tesla because middleman & stuff, or (b.) Try to haggle for below MSRP with a dealer? RESULT you answered b because you're not a moron, but also have a large capacity to lie to yourself about this.
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I think I'd like a dealership model because they serve a range of needs. Need a 3 yr old car need a 1 month old car need a car on a certain monthly service the car take 5he car back if sny faults etc etc. Most of all I usually buy ex demos outright and run them for a few years and the discounts are great thanks to the dealership. And describing tesla as a 'luxury product' just indicates that the barometer for what is luxury has fallen. |
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Some seriously disgruntled folk...I do feel sorry for them
www.thisismoney.co.ukhttps://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-11640289/Tesla-price-cut-Owners-say-duped One of these Tesla owners is Sean Creighton, who told us: 'I was pushed to take early delivery of my Model Y Performance on 23 December. The offer of 10,000 kilometres [6,214 miles] of free supercharging being another enticement. 'I am enormously disappointed that after just three weeks of ownership the price has reduced by £7,000.' Mr Creighton adds that his car arrived without parking sensors despite opting to have them on his Model Y when it was ordered. Tesla announced in October 2022 an update across the range that would see the removal of ultrasonic sensors on both Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. These help to power both the automated parking system as well as the Autopilot assisted driving features. Tesla promised a software update that would provide distance alerts using just the camera software, though this still remains unavailable today. Mr Creighton said: 'The update to use the cameras - called Tesla Vision - has not happened. 'I paid for full autonomous self-driving and quite a number of the features with it do not work. That's not what I expect from a car I paid £76,000 for! 'After just three weeks I have lost all faith in Tesla as a brand. 'I can only think that Tesla doesn't care about past customers ever buying again. |
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Take it up with the car industry and what they consider luxury... the article wasn't written by me... either way, Tesla dwarfs the competition in sales in the US https://jalopnik.com/tesla-is-now-th...ing-1849976321 |
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I don't want to see dealerships go away. I just can't stand the deceptive advertising or the ridiculous side stickers. Tesla does away with all the nonsense...You know what you are getting and if you don't like the price buy a Chevy Volt or Mach-E....it's that simple. What ever it is they are doing it is working as they dwarfed BMW and Mercedes last year in sales.. Don't know how that is so upsetting to some |
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But the 2023 Tesla headline is: free lunch is over. Costs rising! Tesla is taking a big hit on margins now due to price cuts and the competition hasn't even shown up yet! By the end of 2023, their costs are going to rise quite a bit & margin will fall further. Quote:
And then it won't be long until you haggle with those dealers in addition to buying mods, services like PPF, etc. The upsetting part isn't dealerships or no dealerships; it's people who think business gravity has disappeared & Auto Peter Pan is real!
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Well, the most likely answer (and industry rumored answer) is: (1.) Legacies have profitable ICE businesses and are in no rush to go risk-on with expensive BEV inventory going into a recession (2.) Legacy auto doesn't have their dealers fully on-board yet and they realize without it dealers will torpedo sales so slow roll the inventory a stitch until you get signed contracts (which $F, $GM and some others JUST got, like last week) and get staff fully trained and on-board. (3.) Legacy auto waiting on gov't regulation so they don't get into a pricing mess like $TSLA That stuff seems reasonable & makes complete sense, especially when you see $GM easily building BEVs like the Bolt, and BMW's i4 & iX (if one can stand looking at them) ... but it's not as emotionally pleasing as "ZOMG YOU GUYS TESLA'S BEATING EVERYONE!" I have a feeling Jan 2024 isn't going to be as fun for the cheerleader-types. |
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if the dealers weren't worried about the Tesla model... there would be no need for them to be fighting tooth and nail against their direct sales model... like you said, consumers won't want an equal price point... so as a dealer, I would add on an ADM and then discount it, just for you lol
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For those reasons, Legacy dealers aren't on-board selling BEVs because there's no incentive for them to be. For example, only 60% of Lincoln dealers signed onto Ford's BEV plan - which just happened, like, this month. So if you were Farley (Ford CEO), and you knew 40% of your dealers didn't want to sell even 1 BEV and 100% will push people into ICE simply because there are more options there for profit and they know how to sell it, how excited would you be to push BEV inventory to them? So what do you do if you're Farley or Barra? You threaten the dealers you're going to cut them out of the loop entirely! You get back some leverage to push dealers into BEV sales contracts, and THAT'S what legacy automakers are "fighting tooth and nail" for. Automakers don't want a DTC model - who wants to deal with customers?? - but legacy can't transition to BEVs without getting their dealers on-board. |
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* In Oct 2017 I advised the few who listen to me to buy $TSLA The reasons were: (a.) good product some customers wanted, (b.) proven ability to produce that product at scale Right here & elsewhere I said the same and took all kinds of arrows from Efthreeoh KRS_SN and many others (yes, some of them even threw "lol"s, "rotflol"s and emojis at me, nevertheless I persisted. Then all of those threads here got deleted (or at least hidden). * In Jan 2022 I advised those same few to sell $TSLA The reasons were: (a.) Risks piling up across 5 key areas (b.) Product segments saturated (MS/X) or near segment limit (M3/Y) (c.) No new volume products in the pipeline Since then $TSLA has fallen 60%+ So, it's not a question of "working" or "not working"... It's a question of "is Tesla sales growth accelerating"? NOTE: linear growth is NOT THE SAME as accelerating growth! And the clear answer is "NO." Comparables are irrelevant; $TSLA is priced for explosive accelerating growth and, for the last 4 months, $TSLA's growth is linear NOT accelerating nor explosive. Further, the Tesla product price cuts are looking to be hitting an inelastic demand trend for Tesla products, which means movement OF the demand curve vs movement ON the demand curve. AND This matches consumer retail trends overall For example, December (holiday) sales fell 1.1% which doesn't sound like much but is the highest in decades. WORSE, in 2022 retail sales fell mostly for the bottom 50% of Americans (= below $70k household income) BUT IN DECEMBER this extended all the way up to $150k household income. So what? Well,[b] interest in Tesla is down and retail sales are falling so we're probably not out on a limb thinking auto sales, including Tesla, might fall this year vs linear growth (Tesla?) or accelerating growth (nobody?) More than BMW or Mercedes? Enough to hit $TSLA and cause investors to flee? Very likely. If you're not an investor you probably don't care about this stuff, and most people here probably don't care. Really I'm just indulging myself with this post. Anyway, thanks is my point.
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That said, find me another former $TSLA bull who called for a $TSLA sale in Jan 2022 AND THEN DID IT! The in-retrospect call is never a revelation: it's the balls it takes to ACT BEFORE everyone is looking hindsight months later and saying "oh yeah that wasn't a revelation" 2022 was the niche demand for Teslas pulled forward, but that's over ... I hate to do this but I would compare Tesla's business to Netflix: great 10 years when it was new & cool, but now there are plenty of options while demand overall is falling
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