Aside from the grousing problem any manufacturer has offering newer models...
Part of the trouble for Tesla is their long backlog (a lot of development goes on while you wait). And the other is the high entry cost. Apple or another tech manufacturer can roll out upgrade after upgrade, but there is no wait (or nothing like a Tesla wait anyway), the customer goes in the store and walks out with what they want. They know, given the pace of consumer electronics, that the widget will soon enough be a lesser model. You can sell it off or trade it in on a new one for a few hundred bucks. None of that works with a $70K+ auto. You pay like that, you don't want someone else soon having a bigger one to swing. It is unreasonable to expect that your new thing stays new. Then there is the mine is better than your cache that has grown around Tesla vis a vis "lesser" autos. You think you are going to be a bad ass, but someone who simply waited longer has a better car. Waaah-waah. I think this is a minor detail for Tesla. You don't want unhappy customers who have the credit to buy, but I don't see a way around this problem. Can you really go back to an ICE after? On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:40 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV < ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > If Tesla really did assure these customers that the changes they wanted > weren't imminent, then I have to agree that they're in the wrong. > > That said, IMO, this situation - buyers asking whether an upgrade is > imminent - requires a very careful response from Tesla (or any tech > oriented > manufacturer or dealer, really). It's easy for a potential buyer to hear > what he wants to hear at that moment, and re-interpret it later. At the > very least, they should have been noncommittal when asked. > Snip -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150312/59993162/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
