No, it wasn’t. Tesla was moving their cars at high velocity and found the top price that keeps them moving.
Dealers aren’t doing that to EVs, they are radically overpricing.
Dealer markup only helps the dealer and hurts the manufacturer with high fixed costs. At least Tesla got some money which they can, and did, put back into capital improvements for future models.
Tesla was moving their cars at high velocity and found the top price that keeps them moving
the top price which apparently came down 40% in less than a year? besides, this matters to the consumer how exactly?
Dealers aren’t doing that to EVs, they are radically overpricing.
back when i was fruitlessly trying to buy a mackey, every dealer i called said they have nothing on the lot because all allocations and abandoned customer orders were getting bought up immediately. and the lowest markup i found was $5k
At least Tesla got some money which they can, and did, put back into capital improvements for future models.
aside from the fact that this is is incredibly naive, it generalizes beautifully to other manufacturers, like gm announcing they’re doing a $10b stock buyback.
> the top price which apparently came down 40% in less than a year?
yes, they were very responsive to demand and immediately changed price and advertised so, entirely unlike the dealers.
> besides, this matters to the consumer how exactly?
It’s very easy to buy a Tesla at a low price now, and hard to buy a competing EV at a competitive price because of dealer greed and lack of desire, so people don’t.
No, it wasn’t. Tesla was moving their cars at high velocity and found the top price that keeps them moving.
Dealers aren’t doing that to EVs, they are radically overpricing.
Dealer markup only helps the dealer and hurts the manufacturer with high fixed costs. At least Tesla got some money which they can, and did, put back into capital improvements for future models.
the top price which apparently came down 40% in less than a year? besides, this matters to the consumer how exactly?
back when i was fruitlessly trying to buy a mackey, every dealer i called said they have nothing on the lot because all allocations and abandoned customer orders were getting bought up immediately. and the lowest markup i found was $5k
aside from the fact that this is is incredibly naive, it generalizes beautifully to other manufacturers, like gm announcing they’re doing a $10b stock buyback.
> the top price which apparently came down 40% in less than a year?
yes, they were very responsive to demand and immediately changed price and advertised so, entirely unlike the dealers.
> besides, this matters to the consumer how exactly?
It’s very easy to buy a Tesla at a low price now, and hard to buy a competing EV at a competitive price because of dealer greed and lack of desire, so people don’t.
so the market changed overnight? funny how that works