r/technology • u/ClappyKillmore • 20h ago

Transportation Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cannot-guarantee-roadster-reservation-holders-will-ever-get-a-car
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u/Toth-Amon 20h ago

If people are seeing that and still paying, they are just idiots.

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u/wps10 19h ago

Anyone who still gives money to Tesla at all, let alone for a pre-order, is a moron and an asshole who shouldn’t be trusted with money in the first place

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u/powerlloyd 19h ago edited 19h ago

At first I was thinking “there are people who can drop $200-$500 on a vaporware deposit and it doesn’t phase them”, then I looked up what a deposit on a roadster cost… Jesus man, you’re not wrong. 50k deposit for the base model, and some dummies are dropping 250k for a car that’s never coming.

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u/wps10 19h ago

Craziest part is, they’ve been taking those $50k deposits since 2017 when they first announced the 2nd gen Roadster and still haven’t delivered jack shit. It blows my mind that Tesla is still trustworthy in anyone’s eyes

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u/powerlloyd 19h ago

A fool and his money…

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u/wps10 19h ago

Best time ever to be a grifter

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u/fixnahole 7h ago

So it's like a Kickstarter that never materializes. Certainly more than a few stories of those--but not $50K worth!

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u/emergencyexit 12h ago

When you put it like that it's kind of no wonder people are investing in TSLA. A business that can make money out of nothing? That's an appealing investment. At least until it's time to pay the piper.

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u/LOLBaltSS 18h ago

If you really wanted a roadster designed by Hans that you can actually buy right now, there's always the Saturn Sky Red Line or Pontiac Solstice GXP and they'll be a fraction of the reserve price of the Tesla. Hell, you could even buy a Mallett version of either and still be way under $50k.

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u/Westerdutch 10h ago

a moron and an asshole who shouldn’t be trusted with money in the first place

Well, that only narrows it down to about 2/3 of humanity at this point.... more people than any marketing department could ever wish for.

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u/johnsonjohndaughter 10h ago

We should just redistribute all the money to gavin newsome

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u/castironglider 17h ago

I can't begin to understand why Tesla is so special when there are alternative EV supercars

$208K is less than the Tesla deposit!

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u/Thoseskisyours 7h ago

Already saw someone boast on linked in making a $500k wired deposit on the invite only model. Just imagine having that much money to make a deposit for something you have no idea when or if will arrive

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u/tetrasodium 3h ago

So like when normal people drop 50$ on some random Kickstarter project they think looks cool and hope to be pleasant surprised when it starts shipping?

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u/Thoseskisyours 2h ago

Yeah. But with more zeros

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u/kawag 10h ago edited 5h ago

Elon Musk is a Nazi.

If anyone buys a car from his company, you deserve everything you get, and I will never have one iota of sympathy for you; in fact, I wish you nothing but misery and suffering, for empowering somebody who inflicts those things on so many.

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u/TheSwissArmy 7h ago

For this reason alone I don’t know why people are giving money to Tesla.

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u/nox66 5h ago

"Hitler had some good ideas"

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u/Azkahn616 17h ago

I would never have guessed there were that many dopes with money.

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u/airfryerfuntime 10h ago

This is literally on every pre-order agreement.

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u/TheSwissArmy 7h ago

You could just put a deposit down with the intention of suing in a few years when they don’t deliver. Could make 10x