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How long have you all followed Tesla, they have done this for many years. 2 years ago I bought my Model S, my actual order wasn’t in yet, but they kept contacting me offering incentives to take one in stock. After 2-3 try’s I took them up on it, fast forward a month or 2 they dropped the price $25K. They absolutely knew they were dropping the price while they were calling folks begging them to buy now for free supercharger miles Included. Plaid buyers lost even more, I think they went down $30K. You seriously think Elon cares? I wish you the best, but wouldn’t expect anything. Best thing to do with Tesla is lease it protects you from this and also allows you to have the latest updates/models every 3 years.
Sequential leasing is a great option if you want to make car payments forever.
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The value definitely depends on how many miles away from home you do.

We do from 3-5k miles per year away from home. At $0.35 per kilowatt (our offpeak but also similar to Tesla's average system price) that's like 14¢ a mile. Or $700 a year for us!

So free Supercharging would pay off pretty quick at a few thousand, but uhh... A long time if it's bumping the price by $20k. Long enough the truck has a good chance not making it that far.

That's the kind of TCO you'd need to do if it's not an emotional purchase (which FOMO definitely was.)

You guys got your trucks. Why upset someone else is getting a perk for not being impatient?

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Are Supercharging credits in the Tesla Store?

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No, don't see them. Just referring to my Cybertruck power share credit I got. Don't want to use on merchandise. No need for me.
 

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Why?

No, honestly, why? You already have your trucks. This is to get the last few sold retaining the price level you bought them at. Without this, the series ends sooner, and your depreciation is higher.

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Depreciation in the best case is above and beyond any rational decision to ever get rid of it anyway. It’s mine forever either way.
 

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Too me LIFETIME free charging is worth it even if you aren’t going use it now. Keep the car in the family and give it to your kids when they are old enough to drive. Imagine being a teenager driving dads 15 year old cybertruck with unlimited fuel.




I agree with you $2500 is a better deal for me I've used the supercharger 3 times in the 4 months I had CB and 2 of those times were before I had the home charger put in.
 


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No, don't see them. Just referring to my Cybertruck power share credit I got. Don't want to use on merchandise. No need for me.
Others say they've called and gotten the converted to credit that can be. Might as well try that.

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Too me LIFETIME free charging is worth it even if you aren’t going use it now. Keep the car in the family and give it to your kids when they are old enough to drive. Imagine being a teenager driving dads 15 year old cybertruck with unlimited fuel.
Imagine being the guy whose Tesla with Free Supercharging for Life was totaled in the first year.

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When renters in your commercial spaces negotiate lower rates for space do you go back to all your other tenants and discount their rates, regardless of what they contracted?

How about for those charter fishing trips? Same thing, right? You always apply retroactive discounts I'm sure.
I am a charter boat captain and I don’t offer any trips for life for the price of one trip. I also am a landord and I deal with each property separately and no renter knows any other renter. There is no Ken’s property forum. All the properties are on different locations. If inowned a strip mall I wouldn’t piss people off by giving different deals. I may pay for renovations for one if it needs it but I wouldn’t offer free renovations for life. Your analogy doesn’t make sense. Tesla is screwing its purchasers who laid out the cash. Ike insaid in an earlier post. I would be upset if they were giving cargo boxes or mole rack. But to give out free supercharging for Johnny come second is an insult I repeat an insult. To wait around tmfor an incentive is one thing. To offer something that wasn’t offered to initial buyers is an insult period. That is like me having customer appreciation day at my ice ceeam shop and give 25% off everything. Then a week later having another customer appreciation day and giving 50% off. My customers from the first sale would be pissed off big time.
 

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Others say they've called and gotten the converted to credit that can be. Might as well try that.

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Thanks Crissa. Good suggestion. You've always been a good help over the years.
 

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I am a charter boat captain and I don’t offer any trips for life for the price of one trip. I also am a landord and I deal with each property separately and no renter knows any other renter. There is no Ken’s property forum. All the properties are on different locations. If inowned a strip mall I wouldn’t piss people off by giving different deals. I may pay for renovations for one if it needs it but I wouldn’t offer free renovations for life. Your analogy doesn’t make sense. Tesla is screwing its purchasers who laid out the cash. Ike insaid in an earlier post. I would be upset if they were giving cargo boxes or mole rack. But to give out free supercharging for Johnny come second is an insult I repeat an insult. To wait around tmfor an incentive is one thing. To offer something that wasn’t offered to initial buyers is an insult period. That is like me having customer appreciation day at my ice ceeam shop and give 25% off everything. Then a week later having another customer appreciation day and giving 50% off. My customers from the first sale would be pissed off big time.
One time offer pay X amount for free lifetime charging. Pump in some revenue as well.

your % off analogy isn’t that comparable IMO.
 


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Remember the entire marketing team was let go a few years ago, there is no marketing team to do it justice....
Yeah that’s true! I think this entire FS strategy is also an injustice to Cybertruck. Given how amazing the truck is, whoever came up with this FS strategy (marketing team or whatever) should have played it differently. If the cost of accessories adds up to 20K anyways, then why all this drama? If they had added lifetime supercharging free from the beginning, demand for FS would have stayed insanely strong. All these strategies are creating so much negative impression about Cybertruck, and it’s pissing of people who are loyal to Tesla. That’s my only concern. Tesla haters are looking for any type of opportunities to create false campaign about Cybertruck. Now we have to deal with this blowout. I’m glad they did this after Christmas. Otherwise family dinner conversations would have gone in defending CT’s honor!! All because someone thought of introducing genius FS strategy so that folks could get trucks six months early after waiting for 5 years!!

Here’s the group of people who are pissed off with FS strategy:
1. Early reservation holders who didn’t want to pay $20K premium.
2. FS owners who will continue to see these perks given on FS models.
3. Owners who feel that they didn’t have to wait for 2-3 years to get the truck.
4. Potential owners who had sticker shock with $100K/$120K price tag. There is something about hitting that price point that deters lot of people, though logically it doesn’t makes sense.
5. People who saw Kim Kardashian cutting the line. ?

If CT sees any low demand in the future, it’s only because of one single reason - FS strategy.
 
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Too me LIFETIME free charging is worth it even if you aren’t going use it now. Keep the car in the family and give it to your kids when they are old enough to drive. Imagine being a teenager driving dads 15 year old cybertruck with unlimited fuel.
Tesla doesn't call it "LIFETIME free charging". The offer is actually for:
free Supercharging during your ownership of the vehicle.
If you transfer the title to your kid (or anyone else), the free supercharging goes away:
Offer is tied to your Tesla Account and cannot be transferred to another vehicle, person or order, even in the case of ownership transfer.
 
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Tesla doesn't actually call it "LIFETIME free charging". The offer is actually for:
If you transfer the title to your kid (or anyone else), the free supercharging goes away.
You wouldn’t transfer it. Just let them drive it. They can pay the insurance. If you want to loose responsibility then lease them the car then it doesn’t transfer and they still get feee SC.
 

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Still way too much…one day.

Tesla Cybertruck Free lifetime supercharging for Foundation Series Cybertrucks in inventory IMG_1201
 

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Tesla doesn't call it "LIFETIME free charging". The offer is actually for:
If you transfer the title to your kid (or anyone else), the free supercharging goes away:
Don’t transfer the title to your kid. Let them drive dad’s car and put them on the Insurance. You could even put the title of the car in a trusts name for the family. Correct you can sell it and have it transfer.
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