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I wasn't even aware they HAD a contract. My local Home Depot has zero mention of any product Tesla makes.

tcdent 8y ago
Mine (not even in a very large city) has a Powerwall display right inside the front door.
Abekkus 8y ago
The contract was for 800 Home Depot locations out of ~2,000 total locations. Our location has People watching the entrance of the store as well as combing the aisles to pitch customers. Valuable products don't need a hard sell.
- __jal 8y ago
  > combing the aisles to pitch customers That's really obnoxious. What an awesome way to drive me to other retailers.
- Alwaysbanned 8y ago
  >Valuable products don't need a hard sell Is your claim that Tesla products are doing such good business at Home Depot that they no longer need salespeople? Is anything ever bad news for this company? They are bleeding red ink, haven't ever made production goals, claim to be growing exponentially, and yet are laying off employees because business is so good? I'm with the poster down thread: the Fandom is hard to comprehend.
  - aetherson 8y ago
    I think that you misread your parent, who was, to my reading, saying that the fact that powerwalls apparently needed a hard sell was proof that they were not good products.
  - joejerryronnie 8y ago
    But, but . . . Elon Musk! Sports Cars and Electricity and Space and stuff! What's there not to like?!!
- ovao 8y ago
  Valuable products may need people to convince others that they're valuable. That is, in effect, the sell.
gameswithgo 8y ago
Mine has a powerwall disaply. I remembering seeing it and thinking "I bet this is not effective". Guess I was right!
chasely 8y ago
I was approached by a Tesla contractor in Home Depot on a few days ago. It was honestly not a good experience. For one, I was approached cold. I too had no idea that they had this agreement, so I was looking at something when someone came up and asked me something like "what type of project are you working on?" So I naturally just described what I was doing and before realizing this was not a HD employee. He asks me if I thought about solar and whatever, but it wasn't relevant to my situation (roof slope orients E/W at the 45th latitude, so not great for solar). He goes on his way. It was just a weird experience. I wasn't in a department related to electricity or solar, and they had no displays indicating a partnership with Tesla or that you may be cold-approached by a Tesla employee.
- RankingMember 8y ago
  I still can't believe retail establishments think it's a good idea to degrade the customer experience by letting third-party salespeople rove their stores. I know Home Depot et al are making money from it, but I can't imagine there are many customers coming away with positive feelings from these come-ons.
  - rpeden 8y ago
    Even first-party roving salespeople can be a big turn-off. I've found that my local Walmart is often cheaper than Amazon, but I've been shopping at Amazon more frequently ever since I was repeatedly ambushed by people trying to get me to sign up for a Walmart Mastercard while I was wandering around the store shopping.
  - ghostly_s 8y ago
    Is this a regional thing? I've never seen any 3rd-party sales staff in a Home Depot here in Chicago, or anything like this in any other big box store I frequent.
    - dboreham 8y ago
      Perhaps it's a sun thing?

Mine (not even in a very large city) has a Powerwall display right inside the front door.

The contract was for 800 Home Depot locations out of ~2,000 total locations. Our location has People watching the entrance of the store as well as combing the aisles to pitch customers. Valuable products don't need a hard sell.

__jal 8y ago
> combing the aisles to pitch customers That's really obnoxious. What an awesome way to drive me to other retailers.
Alwaysbanned 8y ago
>Valuable products don't need a hard sell Is your claim that Tesla products are doing such good business at Home Depot that they no longer need salespeople? Is anything ever bad news for this company? They are bleeding red ink, haven't ever made production goals, claim to be growing exponentially, and yet are laying off employees because business is so good? I'm with the poster down thread: the Fandom is hard to comprehend.
- aetherson 8y ago
  I think that you misread your parent, who was, to my reading, saying that the fact that powerwalls apparently needed a hard sell was proof that they were not good products.
- joejerryronnie 8y ago
  But, but . . . Elon Musk! Sports Cars and Electricity and Space and stuff! What's there not to like?!!
ovao 8y ago
Valuable products may need people to convince others that they're valuable. That is, in effect, the sell.

gameswithgo 8y ago

Mine has a powerwall disaply. I remembering seeing it and thinking "I bet this is not effective". Guess I was right!

chasely 8y ago

I was approached by a Tesla contractor in Home Depot on a few days ago. It was honestly not a good experience. For one, I was approached cold. I too had no idea that they had this agreement, so I was looking at something when someone came up and asked me something like "what type of project are you working on?" So I naturally just described what I was doing and before realizing this was not a HD employee. He asks me if I thought about solar and whatever, but it wasn't relevant to my situation (roof slope orients E/W at the 45th latitude, so not great for solar). He goes on his way. It was just a weird experience. I wasn't in a department related to electricity or solar, and they had no displays indicating a partnership with Tesla or that you may be cold-approached by a Tesla employee.

RankingMember 8y ago
I still can't believe retail establishments think it's a good idea to degrade the customer experience by letting third-party salespeople rove their stores. I know Home Depot et al are making money from it, but I can't imagine there are many customers coming away with positive feelings from these come-ons.
- rpeden 8y ago
  Even first-party roving salespeople can be a big turn-off. I've found that my local Walmart is often cheaper than Amazon, but I've been shopping at Amazon more frequently ever since I was repeatedly ambushed by people trying to get me to sign up for a Walmart Mastercard while I was wandering around the store shopping.
- ghostly_s 8y ago
  Is this a regional thing? I've never seen any 3rd-party sales staff in a Home Depot here in Chicago, or anything like this in any other big box store I frequent.
  - dboreham 8y ago
    Perhaps it's a sun thing?