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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

after submitting a $122,135 order

The buyer told us that he paid a $250 order fee on Friday and previously paid a $100 reservation fee.

Tesla doesn't have to refund those types of fees if a buyer cancels

You have to pay $350 to get the privilege to fork over a hundred and twenty grand? My jaw literally dropped.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You forget we live in a society where we have bought tickets and raffles for the chance of being able to buy Air Jordans or Yeezys or w/e fuck shoe that did that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I missed that. And I'd rather go back to unknowing it. Shoe shopping is a chore, not a prize.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've been wearing the same two pairs of shoes for about 4 years now. I thought one pair was failing earlier in the year, but the glue repair held and I've continued to wear them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tesla culture* Normal car enthusiasts aren't like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly Tesla culture reminds me of any brand of car fanboyism. The ones I got most familiar with was the supposed "hot rodders" that viewed a junked out piece of rust that's sat in a field 20 years worth thousands of dollars to spend thousands of dollars to not drive it. Got sick of it as someone who's first car was a 70s one and attempting to find parts and pieces was people telling a high schooler to just take it to a shop and spend more than I've spent on my current modern car+motorcycle because none of them actually bothered working on their shit before.

Now I said that, there's also the motorcycle culture, and we're weird as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This feels a little more, I don't know, direct than car culture mentality. Buying a Telsa, at least in past few years, feels like direct support to one person. I don't see people with expensive sportscars and assume they think the CEO of the manufacturer is a hero. Telsa buyers probably don't feel that way, but stuff like this leads me to believe they do.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago

Yes and an overwhelming amount of people love doing it.