• 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • Poggervania
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      2911 months ago

      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.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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        2311 months ago

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

        • @macrocephalic
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          211 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.

    • @tyrant
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      1011 months ago

      Car culture is weird

      • @Fridgeratr
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        511 months ago

        Tesla culture* Normal car enthusiasts aren’t like this

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          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.

      • Ook the Librarian
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        211 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.