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don't think of it as a deposit, think of it as reserving your place in line. whenever tesla gets around to being able to deliver you have to make up your mind,
by cagenut 7y ago
don't think of it as a deposit, think of it as reserving your place in line. whenever tesla gets around to being able to deliver you have to make up your mind, but at least you know you won't have to wait at the back of the line if you decide you do want it.
its an option not a deposit.
tesla obviously doesn't expect them all to convert, in fact they have their internal numbers on how well the model3 reservations converted so they can make a much more accurate estimate than either you or I.
tell me a marketing department for a product that can't be shipped for 2 years that wouldn't kill for a list of not just warm leads, but people who had out and out handed over money! its like they managed to get the customers to pay for the marketing budget.
- tempsy 7y agoModel 3 was a $1000 deposit. They dropped it to $100 for the Cybertruck despite it being more expensive. So they expect to convert fewer people than the Model 3. Likely far fewer. So if Elon knows few people will convert then why call it a "pre order" and why does he keep announcing the numbers on Twitter every few hours? Either way despite the frothy market investors don't appear to be biting at the preorder numbers anyway, but the whole preorder song and dance feels like the world's biggest Kickstarter whose main function is raising a bunch of interest free loans.
- mdszy 7y agoThey're still referring to them as "orders" regardless as to whether you define them as such or not.
- greglindahl 7y agoThe contract involved is public, so maybe the exact words used to summarize it isn't that important? There was a lot of squabbling over the words used to summarize the Model S, X, and 3 waiting lists, too. I don't think anything good came out of the discussion.