Kashana: The best part of buying a car is the legal threats.

The best part of buying a car is the legal threats.

Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first yearwww.businessinsider.com Tesla may agree to buy the truck back at the original price minus "$0.25/mile driven" and any damages and repairs.

You know it must be amazing if they have to force you not to sell it.

i would guess the justification is to keep people from flipping them for a quick profit like we've seen with many cars in the last couple years. of course, those are cars that are actually in production and that people want to buy. unlike this thing

You'd think they'd like that what with Musk being a fervent upholder of capitalism in its rawest form.

Wait, what? Is Egon Tusk now against capitalism and free markets?

given the amount of government subsidies most of his business ventures rely upon...

They will sue for "trying" to sell, because nobody's going to be willing to actually buy it from you.

I don't think that's actually true, even Tesla will buy it back from you

If Tesla has to buy their own cars back that's not going to make them look desirable.

They don't have to, they probably don't want them to become scalper item, because Elon is an idiot and didn't setup production even after all these years 😂

There’s no atom of amazement init

Just a normal customer-focused company confident in the quality of their product 🙄

ehhh, this was floated by ford as well with their lightnings after people were essentially scalping vehicles and keeping them out of the hands of people who could afford them and actually wanted to drive them and not treat them like investments. I don't know if "sue for 50k" is the answer though.

Somehow I don't think "scalping" is Tesla's concern here

Would you prefer the phrase "taking monetary advantage of idiots who just have to have daddy's new toy"?

We already got buyer's remorse as a term don't need to really look too deep here

Ford's concern wasn't with *customers* reselling Lightnings - it was with *dealerships* revoking a sale, then selling the truck for a much higher price than Ford's listing.

True, we had one of the first Lightnings in our region through government sales, the dealership was pissed and wanted us out of there with it ASAP. You could see the dollar signs in their eyes

Ford did this to John Cena when he resold his GT. They don’t want people getting on a waiting list and then flipping it.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I always thought the laws of supply and demand, i.e. making more of your coveted product, is supposed to fix that..

Car companies were admittedly dealing with some extremely abnormal supply chain issues that limited their ability to produce cars to demand. It’s one of the reasons why we’ve been dealing with a fucked up car market for 3 years. Ford was attempting to protect customers from dealers and scalpers.

It would be pleasant if everything were as simple as supply and demand and geopolitics and global supply chains had zero impact on national or local economics but alas it’s a pretty fucking grey world we live in.

Selling cars the way he treats his wives, cool

He should throw in an expensive divorce with every purchase.

Everyone who buys one of these already has an expensive divorce

from reality

If it all ends with his trans child winning everything I’d be fine with that

I feel like "expensive divorce" is pretty much inevitable for the targeted demographic here

Most, if not all partners of doofuses who buy this thing should be granted no fault divorce verdicts the moment the purchase contract is signed.

The future is neat

i doubt anyone would buy a vehicle that collapsed into a pile of random parts the first time you slammed the door too hard, but what do i know

I don't think our concern should be that it falls apart but rather the fact that it won't and it has no crumble zone.

someone is suddenly very aware of the urge to resell a large purchase within the first year

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ford sued john cena after he sold a ford gt he bought in 2017 and sold a few months later. even tho he paid the car in full ford saw it as a breach of contract. sorry but if i buy a car in full ... then its my car ... not theirs. if i buy a cybertruck (never happen) i would sell it the next day

Physical property is rapidly becoming the next software as a service.

I understand why Ford does that, but it doesn't make it anymore okay or acceptable than when Cell Phone providers would have those awful fucking service plan contracts back in the day to even be able to have a phone and plan.

How did John Cena fit into a Ford GT?

Poorly apparently, www.menshealth.com/trending-new...

Prolly why he sold it

That’s crummy. I didn’t know John Cena was hassled like that :(

I wouldn’t accept those terms either, but they’re doing it (Ford does this with the F-150 Lightning too) to prevent a predatory secondary resale/flipper market

its a good job those types of contracts are illegal here in the uk, here its "if you buy it, you own it"

No you see this is the authentic cyberpunk dystopia. This takes craftsmanship

think I'll wait for a dystopia with higher polygon counts anyway

End no-fault resale! "It makes no sense," he murmurs.

I particularly like the part where, if you sell it back to the factory because of its shoddy construction quality, they can charge you for the shoddy construction quality.

Wait, they think there are going to be cybertruck scalpers?

More likely they're trying to prevent bad headlines from the trucks being resold for pennies on the dollar.

It sounds like Tesla will buy them back at close to full cost. Which makes me think they are having so much trouble making them that they would rather get the returns given to a new sucker through them to fulfill their pre orders.

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