No Resale Agreement?

[Bill906]

I've often found it difficult to follow your reasoning.

Fortunately, this forum is neither a professional nor academic pursuit to me, so when the conversation gets hard I just a make a joke and move on

I'm only here for the jokes.

Sponsored

 

[Buster Highman]

How about Tesla charging a 20% account transfer fee if you try to sell your CT to a private party within six months of delivery?

 

[cvalue13]

How about Tesla charging a 20% account transfer fee if you try to sell your CT to a private party within six months of delivery?

• owner dies, estate must liquidate, Tesla taxes dead man 20%

• dad loses job, must sell CT to make ends meet, Tesla taxes hard times family 20%

• CT unit is riddled with quality control issues, unhappy owner wants out, Tesla taxes unhappy customer 20%

• mom & dad divorce, must liquidate joint estate, Tesla taxes broken family 20%

• mom gets cancer, medical bills cause financial hardship requiring main asset liquidation and debt settlement, Tesla taxes cancer survivor 20%

• hurricane strikes coast destroying family’s home, must liquidate remaining assets to recover, Tesla taxes homeless family 20%

This list and it’s permutations goes on, and on.

For every “scalper” sale there may be 10 on-sales that are not just legitimate, but optically virtuous.

The more you try and draft around these legitimate/virtuous scenarios, the more it simultaneously opens gaps for scammers to crawl through.

And THAT’s before you add in how any of this works as between Tesla and the banks that 90% of buyers will require to finance these vehicles.

Which is to say: 90% if buyers don’t even “own” their vehicles, in meaningful ways relevant to an effective ‘penalty’ or ROFR on a “sale.”

Maybe folks have heard of a very few, outlying, scenarios where manufacturers have considered (but not used) or in one-off fashion attempted to enforce such a penalty/ROFR backstop - and confused that anecdotal evidence with a good idea.

Sponsored