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Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year::Tesla may agree to buy the truck back at the original price minus "$0.25/mile driven" and any damages and repairs.

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[–] TenderfootGungi 43 points 1 year ago (13 children)

How is this legal in the US given the first sale doctrine?

[–] Mamertine 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does Monsanto avoid this?

They sell you seeds. You can grow things with those seeds, but you cant plant the grown plants' seeds.

[–] jimbolauski 3 points 1 year ago

It's even worse than that. You can buy seeds from the market place have no agreement with Monsanto but can't plant those seeds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

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