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You answered your own question with your previous objections you know. You complained about the supposed lack of capacity factor - now you complain about the di
by Nasrudith 7y ago
You answered your own question with your previous objections you know. You complained about the supposed lack of capacity factor - now you complain about the distance of the preorder? Well that shows the utility of the preorder with lower production capacity, doesn't it?
A $100 deposit is large enough that people wouldn't feel overtly locked in while confirming a rough number for scaling. As opposed to other "probably want it" who decide not to preorder for $1000.
The function is mostly marketting in the "business intelligence" sense and the assumption that preorder fall throughs would be matched by non-preorder purchase demand is reasonable for anything which isn't a massive stinker.
- tempsy 7y agothis is quite the mental gymnastics. this is a brand new vehicle that is unlike anything they've offered in the past. they have historical data on conversion for the Tesla 3 preorders with a $1000 deposit. now they're offering preorders on something that is more expensive and "unique" for 1/10th the preorder amount. how would a business intelligence analyst on their team even begin to predict how many of these customers actually intend to convert given the data they have? If they actually wanted a rough idea on how many people actually intend to order in order to plan how many resources they need to throw at cybertruck production then they've done everything possible to make their job harder with the preorder decisions they've made.