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>You don't think it's suspicious that those four showrooms each sold 2,150 cars in a single weekend? You don't think it's suspicious that Amazon has a huge ord
by gruez 2y ago
>You don't think it's suspicious that those four showrooms each sold 2,150 cars in a single weekend?
You don't think it's suspicious that Amazon has a huge order spike in the weekend after black friday? Maybe the FBI should investigate on the off chance they're trying to evade taxes, or launder money for Mexican cartels or whatever.
2150 cars seem pretty reasonable for sales that would otherwise have been made in the next 3-6 months, but were pulled forward by the threat of rebates being pulled.
- simonw 2y agoI don't think those car sales numbers are as unsurprising as those Amazon numbers.
- gruez 2y agoWhat's your basis for 8,600 cars being "surprising"? The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought forward just over 2 months worth of sales. That seems plausible to me. I could totally imagine myself making the leap and buying a car immediately if it meant that I'd save $10k (or whatever the rebate is) compared to if I bought 2 months later.
- simonw 2y agoYou and I evidently have different instincts here.
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- FireBeyond 2y ago> The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought forward just over 2 months worth of sales. For the country. This happened in one city of one province. Ottawa has 1.4M people in a country of 37M (4%). So 18% of the country's entire volume for the year was sold in a city that has less than 4% of the population. In a weekend. 8600 vehicles sold, representing 18% of the vehicles sold in Canada = 48,000 in a year. Two months of sales would be 8,000. Recognizing that the population isn't evenly distributed, that is actually more like 320 is the expectation... not 8,600. Even multiplying that number by 10 to factor in things like urban/rural still gets you to less than a third of what Tesla claims was sold... > I'd save $10k (or whatever the rebate is) compared to if I bought 2 months later. Just over $3k ($5k CAD).
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoWhy was it only at these dealerships. If it was a spike caused by the rebate ending, then it would been seen at all (or most) telsa dealerships across the country.
- gruez 2y ago>Why was it only at these dealerships. The article didn't say that. They only said the 4 dealerships had a spike of 8,900 cars, but doesn't say anything about any other dealerships.
- FireBeyond 2y agoWell for one, these 4 showrooms accounted for 89% of the subsidy for the entire country.