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Upselling is standard practice for car sales. I don't think barely anybody ever buys the base model of a car.
by jakobegger 8y ago
Upselling is standard practice for car sales. I don't think barely anybody ever buys the base model of a car.
- dragontamer 8y agoThe difference is that the base model EXISTS in the other stores. The $35k model 3 doesn't exist yet. But Mr. Musk has been touting that number for the past 3 years anyway. Its not common practice to tout a number for a mythical, non-existent car.
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- drusepth 8y agoHaving higher shipping times (or other inconveniences) on cheaper/base models is also pretty common in car sales tactics to help with the upsell.
- natively 8y agothe point is that a $35k model 3 has never been built. It is literal vaporware. They have to design and build a new line of cheapo cloth seats for it, which they haven't. 0 have been sold.
- quest88 8y agoThere's a difference between upselling and bait and switch, though. Upselling, imo, is trying to convince you to get a higher priced model, or falling back to the base while it's in stock. Here Tesla is advertising a vehicle they do not have in stock. It's like getting you in and then saying they misquoted the price and it's actually $10k more (to me).