12 mo. ago • 93%

Tesla will sue you if you try to flip your low-VIN Cybertruck

If you've got an early Cybertruck reservation, you may be thinking you could flip it for profit. Not if Tesla has anything to say about it.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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I took me far too long in the article too realize that it was not about trying to intentionally roll the car over.

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- Ye, is "flip your low-VIN [car]" technical jargon or was I supposed to understand it?
  
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  To flip something, in this context, means to sell it.
  
  And a VIN is a Vehicle Identification Number. It’s essentially the serial number of the car, with a lower number indicating an earlier production time.
  
  So in short, Tesla will sue people who are trying to resell their early production model cybertrucks.
  
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I saw one on the road the other day and they're even uglier and more ungainly in person.

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- Wait - they broke out of Musk's evergreen "yeah - the thing I'm talking about is just a couple of short years from delivery, abs it'll be great"?
  
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  There are about a dozen "proof of concept" models out in the wild, mostly owned by Tesla execs and buddies of Elmo. There's one cruising around in Austin, apparently.
  
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How would that even work? If someone owns the vehicle how do they tell that person what they can or can not do with it?

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- Braces for the downvotes.
  
  Teslas are SaaS on wheels. Most EVs are sadly.
  
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Good luck enforcing that anywhere where they have customer protection laws. Hey, I would love to see a rich person going to court just to settle that once and for all.

Heck, what can they do if I give it to a friend? They can't prove said friend then sent me a cheque to pay for it.

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