A brand-new Cybertruck buyer says he will reject delivery because Tesla is attempting to sell him a truck that has been sitting on the lot for months. His suspicion arose when Tesla matched him with a VIN immediately after he placed his order.
Cybertruck bullshit aside, if you want me to take a car thats 5 months old it had better be discounted, especially if theres an ongoing recall on older models.
Yeah, which any franchise dealership is usually HAPPY to do for you.
Without too long of an explanation basically to get allocations of the high end, special editions, or real profit magnet cars to actually put on the lot dealerships are expected to move a certain volume of cars that have already been made and shipped. To get a fully optioned SUV or sports car to just park on the lot that some guy will just have to have to flex on his neighbours and impulse buy you have to move 10 economy hatches and 5 softroaders a month (examples but you get the idea) the manufacturer ships you their oldest stock first so nothing in the storage lots gets too old, which is why you see fixed price driveaway specials on certain models from time to time… they need to fuck off a bunch of corollas. Its also why sometimes you hear someone got one for stupid cheap because “volume bonuses” are a thing (dealership sells 20 corollas, dealership gets a $20k kickback, 19 cars you get nothing) The thing is that “production orders” dont count towards your allocation, so while you get credit for selling a car on your record and it counts towards any volume bonuses they dont send you any less dealer stock which gives you a larger variety of cars on the lot to increase the chances of same day sales. If dealer stock is thin on the ground, they can do discounts on production orders to keep the “and how soon can I have it?” crowd supplied (remember the covid gouging?) Or if dealer stock is abundant they say “Production cost is $50,000, but I DO have this one thats been on the lot for a few months thats only a little bit off your specs I can do for $42,000”
Its less about the age of the car and more about getting one thats an old version that’s “fixed” vs getting a new one when you paid for a new one.
So they took old stock and “fixed” some of the recalls and sell as brand new. Customer wanted the newest version built with the fixes in place and no active recalls on it.
Tesla dealership being shady with the few sales they got.
Cybertruck bullshit aside, if you want me to take a car thats 5 months old it had better be discounted, especially if theres an ongoing recall on older models.
All cars will be “old” like that unless you custom order one, which can take up to a year to be delivered.
Yeah, which any franchise dealership is usually HAPPY to do for you.
Without too long of an explanation basically to get allocations of the high end, special editions, or real profit magnet cars to actually put on the lot dealerships are expected to move a certain volume of cars that have already been made and shipped. To get a fully optioned SUV or sports car to just park on the lot that some guy will just have to have to flex on his neighbours and impulse buy you have to move 10 economy hatches and 5 softroaders a month (examples but you get the idea) the manufacturer ships you their oldest stock first so nothing in the storage lots gets too old, which is why you see fixed price driveaway specials on certain models from time to time… they need to fuck off a bunch of corollas. Its also why sometimes you hear someone got one for stupid cheap because “volume bonuses” are a thing (dealership sells 20 corollas, dealership gets a $20k kickback, 19 cars you get nothing) The thing is that “production orders” dont count towards your allocation, so while you get credit for selling a car on your record and it counts towards any volume bonuses they dont send you any less dealer stock which gives you a larger variety of cars on the lot to increase the chances of same day sales. If dealer stock is thin on the ground, they can do discounts on production orders to keep the “and how soon can I have it?” crowd supplied (remember the covid gouging?) Or if dealer stock is abundant they say “Production cost is $50,000, but I DO have this one thats been on the lot for a few months thats only a little bit off your specs I can do for $42,000”
Its less about the age of the car and more about getting one thats an old version that’s “fixed” vs getting a new one when you paid for a new one.
So they took old stock and “fixed” some of the recalls and sell as brand new. Customer wanted the newest version built with the fixes in place and no active recalls on it.
Tesla dealership being shady with the few sales they got.