Suppose Apple shut down their stores and you could only buy an iPhone online. Would they make more profit?
$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
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#352Suppose Apple shut down their stores and you could only buy an iPhone online. Would they make more profit?
No. Apple stores also do repairs
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#353I wish they would hire the interior controls engineer that worked on the 8th gen. Mazda Protege. Simple, elegant, and ergonomic. That giant iPhone in the middle of the Tesla 3 puts a crick in my neck just from looking at the pictures.
The giant ipad is fine for people who don't want to drive, but for people who enjoy driving, an immersive experience is important. I think the people who want the performance version should get a dashboard, or the option of one. I'll bet a $3000 optional dashboard would sell like hotcackes.
I like driving, and I also love having a large map on the screen when I’m driving in an unfamiliar area. The extra context is very helpful.
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#354"To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capability will soon be extended worldwide. We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for…
“Courageous” If anyone has ever had to cancel a car sale you’ll realize how much of a hassle it truely is to “return a car” Your credit report will show a loan even after it’s been cancelled for weeks. I once cancelled financing for a car due to it not being as described. Started looking for a new car and found it. Got denied for a loan because my score showed a 60k loan with 0 payments made. It took almost 2 months…
if you are financing an (entry level) luxury car, you are doing something wrong.
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#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
With a $3,750 federal tax credit and possible state credits to offset the delivery cost, the headline price of $35,000 is misleadingly high .
And if the car could just be delivered to a dealership, you'd be getting the tax credits, and not paying the cost of to-your-house delivery.
They don't charge you extra if you live farther away, though. The delivery fee is charged to you whether they deliver it to the dealership or to your house.
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its shady, but its not hypothetical, having owned a Model S for 4 years, I’ve saved a ton on fuel.
By that standard, they should also incorporate an amortized cost of battery replacement in the price.
I feel by the time you need the battery changed out, hydrogen fuel cel would be the new norm, and it will be not that difficult to retrofit an electric car to fuel cels.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's cheaper to Tesla if they "deliver" it at their factory. I took delivery of my Tesla at the Fremont factory. was still forced to pay full delivery fee. insane.
That’s a law.
"This is 2019," he said. "People want to buy things online."
But he added that franchise-dealer opposition would be a violation of interstate commerce, and that is unconstitutional.
"Good luck with that," Musk said.
Sounds like Musk likes to pick and choose the laws he follows.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-is-eliminating-most-of...
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would those people buy one though? The parent's comment was that people who purchase the car are unlikely to want to return it after driving it. They were not saying, everyone who drives one will want to buy one.
Because now you can't drive one without buying it first.
That's not true, though. You can still go to a Tesla dealer and test drive one. You can't necessarily test drive the exact model that you would buy but that's exactly the edge case that the new return policy is meant to address.