3 comments

  • hnburnsy 56 minutes ago
    Currently no in stock new or used and a two month delivery estimate.
    • vel0city 23 minutes ago
      > two month delivery estimate.

      Their website for my zip said two weeks.

      Which seems like a long while, seeing as how their big "can't-call-it-a-dealsership" nearby has like 20-30 sitting on the lot for a while. I imagine they'd make their two week estimate early.

      There's about 30 or so listed used online around me.

      • ButlerianJihad 21 minutes ago
        Hopefully there are no arsonists torching your local “can't-call-it-a-dealership” and burning it to the ground
  • jazz9k 2 hours ago
    This also happens in the Startup community....
    • nickff 1 hour ago
      It is very popular in many industries; when it is accomplished by convincing re-sellers to take in more stock than they desire, it is called 'stuffing the channel'. Book publishers are famous for doing this to achieve 'best-seller' status.
  • jgbuddy 2 hours ago
    What would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they were purchased at all?

    The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective

    • browningstreet 1 hour ago
      Elon keeps doing things that make no sense from a business perspective and he’s defended by people who exclaim it couldn’t have happened like that because it makes no sense from a business perspective.
    • nitwit005 38 minutes ago
      The general behavior of doing things that don't particularly make sense from a business perspective, to make numbers look better, is unfortunately common. People exploit it by doing things like trying to get a discount near end of quarter.
    • benj111 1 hour ago
      Except when the CEO of publicly owned Tesla gets paid based on performance.