“I can’t give this thing away.” - Guy who is asking $89,000 for a used vehicle that now sells new for $72,500.
Don’t buy vehicles from a company led by an unstable Nazi CEO, dipshit.
Also, “give away” typically means $0. $89000 is to the best of my knowledge larger than $0. I’ll bet he could give it away, but he doesn’t want to do that.
“giving it away” can also mean selling it cheap.
Edit: damn I’m not defending this price, just explaining the metaphorical phrase. Chill yall
No, “giving away” means giving something for free. A better way to say it would be “practically or as if I’m giving it away”.
Of course, in daily discourse you might say “I gave it away” instead of “I got rid of it” or “I sold it” since it sounds nicer and is probably more informative when someone asks you “What happened to your car?” and you want to mean I gave it to someone else and didn’t take any money for it, not when you post it for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
The fact that people list “giveaways” where you pay for anything other than shipping, tax, etc. does not change what the words mean.
And even if we’re cutting it close with “practically giving away”, the max price I’d give on such a “given away car” is $500. Anything more is cutting your losses.
$90k is 180 times that amount. Does that mean he wants to give the car away 180 times?
It’s the same underlying wordplay.
I’ll shit on anyone for buying a cybertruck but you’re being very pedantic.
I am giving away the chance to read this comment. Since you have already done so, where should I send the $89,000 bill? Or are you thieving scum?
So there’s this thing called exaggeration…
Going from $89k to “give it away” is not exaggeration, it’s whiny pissboy bullshittery.
No it isn’t. It’s an extremely common phrase people use all the time when talking about things. I’ve said it about my own junk.
from the tardygrade’s perspective is it playing a large violin or a normal-sized cello?
Size-wise, relative to him, it’s much closer to a violin than a cello, maybe slightly larger. So a viola would be the best fit. I think the picture is of a cello though, just sized strangely.
Edit: that image is strange. It’s really popular, but bad. He’s playing the strings from the wrong side of the bridge. How do you get that wrong?
Because of the size difference between humans and tardigrades, it’s hard for tardigrades to attend music lessons and otherwise learn about human musical instruments, so give him a chance, he’s probably trying his best.
Yeah why this mf spitting at my boy Tardi G.? Fuck outta here
It’s impressive enough that a creature without thumbs is able to hold the bow in the first place, and you want to criticise him for how he’s holding his cellolin?
He’s holding the bow perfectly though, its just weird of him to miss the bridge
I’m ripping this response directly from another conversation on this image, I don’t actually know anything about cello.
He’s playing Penderecki!
It has to be a normal-sized cello, a violin would have toe be the other way around.
you can play a violin like that, but it would need to rest on your knee, and I’m just not seeing it
“can’t give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”
A brand new AWD CT from Tesla is $79,990.
Headline is clickbait. Seller is a whinger. Trash all round. Saved you a click.
Sorry to ask, but what is a “whinger”?
Whiner. Whinging is a synonym
But not back in the colonies, one would surmise.
I believe it means “whiner”. As in one who whines and complains.
I don’t know where @[email protected] hails, but I just know this because I am a dad, which means I watch Bluey, and sometimes the dad on Bluey will tell the kids to “quit whinging”.
Huh, it’s common as in Australia.
Never thought of it as an Australian word. Odds are it has its roots in England though I guess
In Harry Potter, an English book, the Dursleys are from Little Whinging, because Rowling has no imagination.
I’ll take that as canon given her other extremely obvious names
Are you one of those people that whinged about Marvel having a character named Wong, when the actor who portrayed Wong, was named Wong?
What? No. What does that have to do with anything? I’m talking about names like Draco Malfoy.
She didn’t plagiarise all of Harry potter though so she must have some imagination. Creatively bankrupt might be more apt
Rowling’s goblins? Based on a racist caricature
The house elves? Wouldn’t you know it, also based on a racist caricature
Centaurs? You guessed it! Based on a racist caricature!
My Geordie friend uses it a lot, I think you’re right on the money.
(Geordies are from the region around Newcastle upon Tyne from what he told me, so part of northern England)
I love how watching taskmaster has given me knowledge of different accents
It’s like these people don’t even watch bluey smh my head
Yeah, somehow there really do be people who haven’t seen bluey. Crazy. It’s 2025 people.
I first heard it in the US in 2006 and had to ask what it meant.
Whinging and whining - though not exactly identical in meaning - are pretty much the same word to all intents and purposes in casual language.
@Zementid @CurlyWurlies4All Australian here. Whinging is complaining or whining
Pronounced like Hinge
That’s the thing. He’s trying to sell his used truck for more than the cost of a brand new one with the same configuration, if I read it correctly.
The guy fucked up buying this trash at a higher price early on, and now he’s just an asshole trying to rip other people off.
Between price drops and the cybertruck recently qualifying for the federal EV tax credit, buyers can get a brand new unit for what this guy is asking. This early adopter paid too much and got a bad deal, but there’s no mystery as to why no one wants to buy at his asking price.
If he’d literally give it away, I’d accept it.
I would too, and I’d resell it immediately because I don’t want to be seen dead in a Musk automobile.
the chances of that being how you’re seen in one are non-zero
I’d still drive it for a little bit. Just bc I regularly drive 20 y.o. vehicles.
I don’t want to be seen dead in a Musk automobile.
The only thing separating us from domestic terrorists
Sledder also shares that over his lifetime, - he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.
Oh, I’m so sorry sir, it’s frightfully unfair that this particular transaction has not worked out as favorablly as you’re used to. Would you care for a sparkling beverage while Life figures out how to make itself better for you?
you can buy a brand-new Cybertruck straight from the manufacturer cheaper than Sledder is asking to sell his used truck.
Wow I wonder why there’s no takers
Also Sledder ‘no low ball offers, I know what I git’
The paint job is totally worth the extra 19k you guyse!!!
The article says there’s a madman offering 50k cash for it. Poor soul.
Actually 50k sounds a lot closer to reasonable for a somewhat used car that currently sells new for 80k’ish. Of course, I’m saying that in the hypothetical generic car vacuum, not the actual “electric dumpster” reality.
“I’ve owned it for 8 months. It is depreciating like a rock. I have already lost over $20k in 8 months. I want to cut my losses and move on, but I can’t give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”
This right here sums up the unrealistic expectations of the average Tesla owner. Cars immediately depreciate the moment you drive them off the lot, no car is immune to this. The average new car loses 10% in the first month after buying it. It loses over 20% in the first year. For those who are playing along this track’s with exactly how much this doofus has “lost” on his truck.
The average new car loses 10% in the first month after buying it. It loses over 20% in the first year.
The theory behind this is that you’d only be selling a slightly used car if it was a lemon. The exception to the rule is resellers who already have a buyer lined up when they take possession of the vehicle.
But because Musk-o-philes are all Bitcoin brained and cannot conceive of prices ever going down, they’re routinely shocked to discover that cars are for driving and not for speculating.
Anything’s for speculating if you’re dumb enough.
No, I’m not eating $2000 worth of fast food, I’m investing. People will pay 10x that for recently deceased human organs, and I’m using my money to unlock that earning potential
Though I’d say this one takes it to a whole new level because of a few extra factors:
- Pre-orders were priced for exclusivity. Iirc, Tesla was having a lot of production/inventory issues when the pre-orders were collected. I’m not sure how much the deposits were, but they’d have added some sunk cost to the situation, making it harder to walk away when it might have been clear that they would be a shitshow. No one has a deposit on anyone’s used cyber truck to add incentive to pay the rest.
- Elon’s reputation hadn’t sunk so low when pre-orders were made. Iirc, it was after the whole submarine/pedophile thing, but it seems that many didn’t see the writing on the wall from that event.
- They turned out to be pretty bad. Other Teslas have and had issues but the cyber truck has had some particularly embarrassing ones for a truck. Like not handling rain or sand well.
- It looks so unique that it doesn’t really fly under the radar. The two other very hated vehicles I can think of off-hand, the PT Cruiser and the Aztec, were ugly but still looked similar enough to other vehicles that many people didn’t know what they were or that they were so unpopular. People could buy one before they realized, and it was easier to not care what others thought. The cyber truck looks like a 90s video game truck in a time when memes reach many more people, to the point where openly laughing at cyber trucks you see in RL might be a meme.
- Cars and trucks are expensive in general, but this one is on another level. While I might be behind on inflation, the price is comparable to a mid/low-end Porsche (~80k for a boxter, ~120k for a 911 is my benchmark, though it’s old but it’s also CAD, so maybe it works today for USD). A) why would someone want that more than a Porsche? B) most people can’t afford a Porsche.
Not to mention the people Elon is pandering to these days either have trouble affording his vehicles without a dealer trying to convince a bank to take the loan, or can easily afford it but have money in part because they don’t spend it on stupid shit like a cyber truck.
All of that on top of the usual depreciation.
Not to mention the stainless steel it’s made of is not even the type that resists rusting. Did you see the state of the Cyber truck that MKBHD sold? It look like a fucking derelict prop from a post-apocalyptic movie set.
Dumb people do dumb things. News at 11.
Also funny that he talks about the price depreciation, while complaining about not being able to sell it. How do you want to sell a buyer on “this will depreciate quickly in price, but please pay a price notably above current market prices”
You’re right.
Top Gear did a piece about the Aston Martin Vantage. New, £170,000 (GBP). 20,000 miles later it was worth £80,000. 90k depreciation in less than a year.
Tesla’s have the absolute worst resale value compared to ICE, PHEV or Hybrids. Batteries degrade over time and with increased usage, so by the time you try to sell a Tesla that’s a few years old, a lot of the advertised maximum capacity has escaped from that battery and the cost of a replacement likely exceeds the value of the entire used car.
Two of my coworkers got fantastic deals on used Tesla’s because they go for so cheap on the secondary market and California is awash in them so there’s always someone somewhere trying to get rid of theirs and usually for less that what it would normally blue book for.
…he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.
Not saying the Cybertruck is a good thing, personally IDGAF about it, but calling this guy merely “a cybertruck owner” is bullshit. He’s a guy who makes money buying and selling expensive vehicles, and he’s whining about a deal that hasn’t worked out for him. Poor baby.
Off topic: it looks waaaaay better in black. 😳
You can paint a turd gold too.
What a twat.
That’s because you see less of it :)
Honestly yeah. Almost batmobileisc
That’s what the guy who blew up his cybertruck said. Made him feel like Batman.
“I feel like Batman, or Halo”
Unless you see it from behind. Then the dumbass thing just looks like a black refrigerator
@TrickDacy @Dungrad Isn’t that an improvement over a dumpster?
Looks like Crocks with wheels. 😂
Yes. I never said I like it. It just is insanely better than the normal light grey one.
Give the grey one a few hours of slightly high humidity, and it’ll at least be brown! LOL
I think it’s called rat rod :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_rod
The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000.
The same dual-motor Cybertruck AWD variant now starts at $80,000. However, starting in 2025, the vehicle qualifies for the $7,500 point of sale tax credit. This further lowers the starting price to $72,500.
Tesla is also now offering a $2,000 discount to anyone who applies a referral code when buying the vehicle. That further lowers the starting price to $70,500.
LOLOL.
Everyone expects top dollar for used shit these days.
This fucking article goes on 3 more paragraphs after that about how great the current offerings from Tesla are. Feels like the whole thing is just a Cybertruck sales puff piece in disguise.
Guy can’t sell his because the new ones are just SO GOOD 🤡
And cheaper than ever!
Twas indeed a click bait puff piece.
No one will buy a used car for more than they can get a new one. Who knew?
My first thought was “Really? Even a chop shop style place won’t take it?” And reading it is like “Oh he doesn’t want to cut the price so much but might now” so yeah.
From the article:
The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000. He thinks this is a fair price […] if you added every optional extra that Tesla currently offers for the Cybertruck, given the $7,500 tax credit and the $2000 referral discount, (a brand new 2025) Cybertruck will still only cost around $86,000.
Nobody with a brain would pay more for a used vehicle. It’s not a collectible. “Founder’s edition” nowadays means “beta version” and it’s not something that’s worth more.
Apparently Elon unfollowed MKBHD after he posted selling his Founders Cybertruck at a $50K loss and saying the Rivian RT1 was a better truck lol.
Oh no! Did he huwt the widdle man’s feewings?
“I can’t give this thing away.”
FTA: He’s not trying to give it away. He’s expecting last year’s used market value for it, but it’s steadily depreciating. Someone offered him 50k for it. He overpaid for a new car.
Pretty much, guy’s just being a Karen. “Broken TV from the 60’s, 500 dollars. Don’t low ball me, I know what I have.”
