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Not that this is at all significant, but these past few months of Twitter charades have erased any appetite for one day buying a Tesla, or any other Musk owned

by mym1990 4y ago

Not that this is at all significant, but these past few months of Twitter charades have erased any appetite for one day buying a Tesla, or any other Musk owned products. Luckily almost every automaker is coming out with their own EVs in the next couple years, so the market should be pretty competitive(in some ways it already is).

browningstreet 4y ago
I got mine in April. So all this is probably my fault.
- mym1990 4y ago
  May your door gaps never be in alignment! Haha just kidding, at least you have a nice car now :)
  - browningstreet 4y ago
    No creaks, no groans, no gaps. Srs.
burntalmonds 4y ago
Same here. I'll never buy a Tesla now, whereas before I might have.
- happytoexplain 4y ago
  Same. I would have had a hard time imagining a way he could behave that would affect my feelings about a Tesla, but he found it. Seeing a CEO act so childish and cruel and emotionally unstable and antagonistic and conspiratorial in a purposefully public way makes me not only feel uncomfortable in the idea of buying his products, it even makes me feel worried about how that insanity might materially affect the product.
  - lavezzi 4y ago
    > I would have had a hard time imagining a way he could behave that would affect my feelings about a Tesla It was the blatant market manipulation for me. This is a nice dose of karma.
  - stubybubs 4y ago
    Yes. If Twitter still exists in the future he could tweet "The Model 3 is stupid and ugly and I hate it and we're not supporting it anymore" and there go all the replacement parts. He'd burn $44B just to try to prove a point (what point? I'm not sure) so it's very possible he'd hand Tesla owners out to dry out of spite.
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- dehrmann 4y ago
  The common refrain from Tesla owners is they love the car, but wish Elon would shut up so they'd have to stop defending their choice.
  - mym1990 4y ago
    Pretty much every model Tesla has grown on me over time, even the X. At the end of the day people will and should vote with their dollar though. Musk had a pretty big leapfrog on the competition for EVs but now that other makers are rapidly catching up, I am not sure what Tesla's competitive advantage will be in the future(production methods, better batteries maybe...it sure doesn't look like it will be management).
prawn 4y ago
Seems petty, but I don't think it would be an uncommon response. A Tesla-owning friend has said a couple of times, "Elon Musk is the worst part of owning a Tesla."
- rurp 4y ago
  I don't see why it would be petty to have concerns. Buying a Tesla makes one very dependant on the company for repairs, maintenance, software updates, etc. Given the new information I have learned recently about how Elon runs a business, that kind of dependancy is horrifying to me.
Consultant32452 4y ago
A former coworker in my FB feed sold his Tesla at a steep discount because he was mad at Elon Musk. This way of thinking about the world is incredible to me. But here we are.
- mym1990 4y ago
  Sounds like someone made off with a great deal! At the end of the day Tesla has some incredible minds working on the product, it is quite unfortunate that the face of that work has to get muddled with whatever Musk's latest circus venture is.
bagels 4y ago
Same. The car is good, but I now wish I hadn't bought it.
pkulak 4y ago
I was all set to buy a Tesla until the pedo-guy thing.
- benjaminwootton 4y ago
  This is the one which sticks with me too. It's infantile bullying to make an accusation like that to tens of millions of people just because his pride got hurt. Then he even defended it in court.
- TheHappyOddish 4y ago
  I've never been at a caryard and made my decision based in what an employee of the company I've never met says to someone else I also don't know. But you do you I guess.
thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Is this in solidarity because you don't like him or because it reduces your faith in his other companies?
- mym1990 4y ago
  More towards the latter because Musk seems to have some pretty crazy and awesome ideas for the future but now we seem to be going a bit off the rails, especially in a time where economic uncertainty might lend to a more conservative approach. Up until now I can see the vertical integration of Musk's ventures, being able to share tech between Tesla/Spacex/Starlink/Boring Company/etc...but the behavior at Twitter is really in left field, almost like he is going crazy. There are a lot of people I like to whom I would not hand over $50k+ for a nice product. For that kind of expenditure I want some certainty that the future outlook and mission of a company is on solid ground.

browningstreet 4y ago

I got mine in April. So all this is probably my fault.

mym1990 4y ago
May your door gaps never be in alignment! Haha just kidding, at least you have a nice car now :)
- browningstreet 4y ago
  No creaks, no groans, no gaps. Srs.

burntalmonds 4y ago

Same here. I'll never buy a Tesla now, whereas before I might have.

happytoexplain 4y ago
Same. I would have had a hard time imagining a way he could behave that would affect my feelings about a Tesla, but he found it. Seeing a CEO act so childish and cruel and emotionally unstable and antagonistic and conspiratorial in a purposefully public way makes me not only feel uncomfortable in the idea of buying his products, it even makes me feel worried about how that insanity might materially affect the product.
- lavezzi 4y ago
  > I would have had a hard time imagining a way he could behave that would affect my feelings about a Tesla It was the blatant market manipulation for me. This is a nice dose of karma.
- stubybubs 4y ago
  Yes. If Twitter still exists in the future he could tweet "The Model 3 is stupid and ugly and I hate it and we're not supporting it anymore" and there go all the replacement parts. He'd burn $44B just to try to prove a point (what point? I'm not sure) so it's very possible he'd hand Tesla owners out to dry out of spite.
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dehrmann 4y ago
The common refrain from Tesla owners is they love the car, but wish Elon would shut up so they'd have to stop defending their choice.
- mym1990 4y ago
  Pretty much every model Tesla has grown on me over time, even the X. At the end of the day people will and should vote with their dollar though. Musk had a pretty big leapfrog on the competition for EVs but now that other makers are rapidly catching up, I am not sure what Tesla's competitive advantage will be in the future(production methods, better batteries maybe...it sure doesn't look like it will be management).

prawn 4y ago

Seems petty, but I don't think it would be an uncommon response. A Tesla-owning friend has said a couple of times, "Elon Musk is the worst part of owning a Tesla."

rurp 4y ago
I don't see why it would be petty to have concerns. Buying a Tesla makes one very dependant on the company for repairs, maintenance, software updates, etc. Given the new information I have learned recently about how Elon runs a business, that kind of dependancy is horrifying to me.

Consultant32452 4y ago

A former coworker in my FB feed sold his Tesla at a steep discount because he was mad at Elon Musk. This way of thinking about the world is incredible to me. But here we are.

mym1990 4y ago
Sounds like someone made off with a great deal! At the end of the day Tesla has some incredible minds working on the product, it is quite unfortunate that the face of that work has to get muddled with whatever Musk's latest circus venture is.

bagels 4y ago

Same. The car is good, but I now wish I hadn't bought it.

pkulak 4y ago

I was all set to buy a Tesla until the pedo-guy thing.

benjaminwootton 4y ago
This is the one which sticks with me too. It's infantile bullying to make an accusation like that to tens of millions of people just because his pride got hurt. Then he even defended it in court.
TheHappyOddish 4y ago
I've never been at a caryard and made my decision based in what an employee of the company I've never met says to someone else I also don't know. But you do you I guess.

thrwyoilarticle 4y ago

Is this in solidarity because you don't like him or because it reduces your faith in his other companies?

mym1990 4y ago
More towards the latter because Musk seems to have some pretty crazy and awesome ideas for the future but now we seem to be going a bit off the rails, especially in a time where economic uncertainty might lend to a more conservative approach. Up until now I can see the vertical integration of Musk's ventures, being able to share tech between Tesla/Spacex/Starlink/Boring Company/etc...but the behavior at Twitter is really in left field, almost like he is going crazy. There are a lot of people I like to whom I would not hand over $50k+ for a nice product. For that kind of expenditure I want some certainty that the future outlook and mission of a company is on solid ground.