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Whoever wrote this wants the value of tesla to crash...

Definitely agree there. I get suggesting alternatives but literally everything they explicitly listed is really pricey. Assuming their tesla is paid off, who'd go another 20 to 30k in debt because of a note?

It would make more sense slap an anti Elon bumper sticker on and keep driving it until either EVs get cheaper or they can afford something different

I promise you there's always going to be someone willing to buy one. You'll possibly just have to drop the price really low. I'd buy a used Tesla for a dollar, for example. If people suspect the price is dropping then hopefully they'll panic sell, and force the price to drop even faster.

That's the goal, though. If people start doing this, the value of used Teslas will crater. That will kill sales of new ones. Why buy a new one when you can get a used one dirt cheap? Why buy a new one if you know it will lose all of its value because the used market died?

Actually, that's exactly the point of "act fast" as described in the text.

If you assume that many will sell their cars, you also assume prices will drop. That means, it's better to sell now, when prices are still somewhat high. It's the same mechanism as in any stock crash.

Still plenty of rubes that support trump. The backlash against tesla actually probably has whole swaths of them looking to buy one to own the libs.

It may reduce new sales

If everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy, the used price will go down.

If used teslas in good condition are dirt cheap, there's no point buying a new one.

If nobody wants a new Tesla, there are fewer Teslas entering the streets.

The advice isn't about reducing the number of Teslas. It's about helping someone get out of owning one. Also, that money doesn't go to Elon, it goes to the seller, so to some people, they might consider that part a wash.

If enough people try to get rid of their Teslas the Used value will crash and bring the New value even further down.

That was observed when Elon in his brilliance secured the Hertz deal and then slashed new Tesla prices. Leaving Hertz no choice but to dump their inventory.

The sell off from Hertz hurt the used value because it was a large supply of "We just want out, we already lost money on these"

I read it as a funny, polite, "fuck you". It's only going to piss someone off who bought a Tesla as a sign of status and is still a fan of Elon Musk. Everyone else will see it either as helpful but misguided or will get the joke.

Cars are worth what someone is willing to pay. More used cars on the market means lower prices means fewer new cars are purchased. The biggest drop in value on any car (bigotry aside) happens at mile 1 when you drive it off the lot. But manufacturers love scarcity when there is high demand, so some manufacturers explicitly forbid buyers from selling their cars (Tesla and Ferrari are the only ones I know of, but there may be more.) If you want one, you must buy it new, and you better buy it quick because it won't last. They don't want buyers leaving the lot and shopping around, they want to create an atmosphere of panic and exclusivity.

Fortunately, they cannot enforce the requirements that you don't sell your car. What they can do is refuse to sell you another one, which Ferrari is famous for doing. With Tesla, if you're selling because you don't want to be associated with Nazis, you're not going to care if the Nazis won't sell you another car. Yes, you're probably selling to another Nazi, but most people cannot afford to simply abandon or scrap a functioning* car on principle. Selling is the next best thing, as it undercuts the aura of scarcity, drives the price down, and reduces the number of new cars sold.

Previous owners that gave money to Musk can distance themselves from him, while new owners that believe Teslas are good can buy one without giving money to Musk.

I'm in the market for a car and there is an amount of money I would spend for a used Tesla despite the potential for vandalism etc. I don't think there is an amount of money I'd spend on a new one

Even pointless ones that don't result in fewer of the thing existing? Selling it just means passing off the note to the next person.

If the price goes low enough, just rip out the battery and use it as home solar energy storage.

Turn the cabin into a chicken coop.

On your second point: unfortunately that’s the system that makes the car go

Unfortunately, it would send a message to folks who do things like storm government buildings and kill cops. I wouldn't want one of those deranged lunatics coming after me.

I really like the design but they didn't have as much headroom as I would like. I'm 6'4" and I ended up getting a model 3. I bought it used, Elon was definitely an asshole at the time but not a nazi yet and I wanted to give him the smallest amount of money possible.

On the flyer in the post the person might want to mention not selling the car back to Tesla because they'll just try and resell it and make more money.

I'm really hoping I can avoid purchasing another car until I can get my hands on either an Aptera or a Telo. Or if I win the lottery maybe a Lucid or one of those Mercedes with the solid state battery I've read about recently.

Technically Volvo (and I assume Polestar) are publicly traded but for a while Geely owned it, which is the same as Tencent owning something, etc. It's still a swedish company and I think because it's operated out of Sweden, there isn't the same pushback in the US.

That said, the note doesn't seem to understand that all those companies are kind of shitty and owned by rich people, except maybe Hyundai?

So?

Yeah. I can't believe people are actually supporting this. How privileged can you be that "bro, just buy a new car" is a sane thing to say?

I know freedom of speech is meaniless in america now... but at one point, you had the right to say anything to someone. Now rather said speech carried conquences, well...

So was Henry ford but this dumb letter is shilling ford