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You go on the website, click a couple boxes, and it tells you a price. You pay what you see on the website. How is that more confusing than a regular dealership
by teej 8y ago
You go on the website, click a couple boxes, and it tells you a price. You pay what you see on the website. How is that more confusing than a regular dealership?
- brianpgordon 8y agoFirst of all, I doubt that the average Tesla customer is wealthy enough that they're in a position to shrug and ambivalently pay whatever the website tells them on that particular day, like they're in the checkout aisle of a grocery store or the pump at a gas station. When it comes to $50,000 purchases, people generally like to plan ahead. Second, the comparison isn't against dealers (which are awful), the comparison is against the ideal. All I'm saying is that Tesla is shooting itself in the foot with its inconsistency. Bringing up dealers is a whataboutism.
- natch 8y agoBringing up prices and ideal scenarios is whatboutism. These updates are about real features, not prices or fake ideal scenarios.
- brianpgordon 8y agoHuh? No it's not. The point under discussion is whether Tesla should be changing their pricing so often. I'm arguing that it would be better if they didn't. That's not a whataboutism. Deflecting the criticism and saying "at least it's not as bad as the dealers" is, on the other hand, pretty much the archetypal whataboutism.
- natch 8y ago>The point under discussion is whether Tesla should be changing their pricing so often. Heh no, you introduced that point yourself in a classic whataboutism move. Tesla started the actual topic under discussion, which is updates to the Model S and X cars.
- cmsonger 8y agoThe model I saw last week when I was thinking about buying is different than the model I saw this week. The price I saw last week for the set of features I remember selecting is different than the price I see this week. They need to calm the rate of change here. It's been all over the map in Q1.