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Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars | Ars Technica
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So you don't really own the truck then, if they can say what you can or cannot do with it after you bought it.
There are plenty of reasons why someone may need to sell their vehicle (job change, moving) within a year. Having Tesla forcing them to only accept $50k buyback for a $122k vehicle sounds on par with Musk's shitty personality.
What I don't understand is why people voluntarily involve themselves with his shitty personality. At least with his employees you know why, they're getting paid. But Tesla customers are paying him.
Werent these cars all bought while he was still just another tech bro, instead of a full throated fascist?
many were preordered yes, why you'd do that is beyond me. I like that tech lady who bought a model 3 and refit it into a truck
Rivian has had a fully functional, and well regarded electric truck on the roads for years now, and they start at $50k less than the Tesla. Why go with Tesla at all? I guess if you want a truck that looks like John Delorian designed it during a cocaine binge, and left all the cool parts on the design room floor, then a Tesla is a good choice.
The truck looks more like Melon designed it with his crayons.
Honestly I really like the design. Apparently it’s pretty good aerodynamics-wise, and I enjoy stainless steel as a body material. Same reason I really like the DeLorean or N-Vision 74
I think it's ugly as balls. But then some people like the look of balls, and I respect individual preference. Life would be a lot more boring if we all liked the exact same things.
On the other hand Elon is piece of shit.
Maybe buy the DeLoean and spend the extra $90k on a working Flux Capacitor?
The construction they had to do to achieve the look is completely fucked up, though. It's awful in collisions and will be extremely expensive or impossible to repair.
Simone. Although she admits her modding kinda destroyed the car's performance.
Okay, but this is not an unusual practice with car makers and specialty cars. Now is it legal? That's a whole other can of worms. But the biggest instance of this whole kind of thing that I can remember is when John Cena was sued by Ford for selling his Ford GT.
Well yes and no. Yes you may transfer the property like you own it, you just cannot resell it, which sounds silly but there's a technical difference. But in the utmost strictest sense, nah, if you cannot turn it as a profit "ownership" is seriously lacking.
Not to defend any of this, but usually those kinds of people aren't buying specialty cars, which the Cybertruck would met all the requirements for a Court to treat it as a limited run.
Oh yeah, absolutely. All of the restricted resell of specialty vehicles is bull. But it's not just Musk's shitty personality here, it's an ugly side of specialty cars in general.
All of that said, A court did actually rule against Ford once but it was on a super technical term in that the owner sent the car to an auction house, which sold the car, thus technically not the "owner" selling the car. Ford has since updated their anti-flipping contracts to include this provision.
There's all kinds of reasons car makers employ anti-flipping and resale restriction. Another one is the Ford A-plan stuff. People who buy cars on Ford's AXZ-Plan have these kinds of restrictions for six months and, if they're caught it could cost them their job as well as a fee.
And I know I feel like I'm picking on Ford, they're like the Nintendo of the car industry, they will heavily litigate you to death. But all the car companies do this stuff. Ford is just especially inclined to retrieve their stuff or due payment. And if you enjoyed that, imagine how fun it is to have one of these restricted resale vehicles and it gets repossessed, those are real fun situations.
Fuck Tesla
Silly pleb, property is for good white Christians and people who can afford large campaign donations.
You were planning to flip one, huh?
Scalpers are a pox on our society, good riddance