<story><title>$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dylan16807</author><text>This is very good advice to keep in mind, but it&amp;#x27;s not Tesla&amp;#x27;s fault if the credit reporting agencies are terrible.</text></item><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>“Courageous”&lt;p&gt;If anyone has ever had to cancel a car sale you’ll realize how much of a hassle it truely is to “return a car”&lt;p&gt;Your credit report will show a loan even after it’s been cancelled for weeks.&lt;p&gt;I once cancelled financing for a car due to it not being as described. Started looking for a new car and found it.&lt;p&gt;Got denied for a loan because my score showed a 60k loan with 0 payments made. It took almost 2 months to fully remove it from my report and start with a clean state&lt;p&gt;In summary, Tesla is essentially saying “you can’t test drive it but if you don’t like it you can cancel your car search for a few months and ding your credit score for nothing”&lt;p&gt;This is like mattress stores that give you a “free trial”, they know the resistance to actually doing ending your “trial” is crazy high</text></item><item><author>BenoitEssiambre</author><text>&amp;quot;To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capability will soon be extended worldwide. We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free. With the highest consumer satisfaction score of any car on the road, we are confident you will want to keep your Model 3.&lt;p&gt;Shifting all sales online, combined with other ongoing cost efficiencies, will enable us to lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, allowing us to achieve the $35,000 Model 3 price point earlier than we expected. Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Bold</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcbw2</author><text>Does it matter to the victim who is at fault?&lt;p&gt;...also, there&amp;#x27;s a $1,200 delivery fee. Is this the new &amp;quot;restock fee&amp;quot;? it is conveniently left out of the marketing materials.</text></comment>
<story><title>$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dylan16807</author><text>This is very good advice to keep in mind, but it&amp;#x27;s not Tesla&amp;#x27;s fault if the credit reporting agencies are terrible.</text></item><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>“Courageous”&lt;p&gt;If anyone has ever had to cancel a car sale you’ll realize how much of a hassle it truely is to “return a car”&lt;p&gt;Your credit report will show a loan even after it’s been cancelled for weeks.&lt;p&gt;I once cancelled financing for a car due to it not being as described. Started looking for a new car and found it.&lt;p&gt;Got denied for a loan because my score showed a 60k loan with 0 payments made. It took almost 2 months to fully remove it from my report and start with a clean state&lt;p&gt;In summary, Tesla is essentially saying “you can’t test drive it but if you don’t like it you can cancel your car search for a few months and ding your credit score for nothing”&lt;p&gt;This is like mattress stores that give you a “free trial”, they know the resistance to actually doing ending your “trial” is crazy high</text></item><item><author>BenoitEssiambre</author><text>&amp;quot;To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capability will soon be extended worldwide. We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free. With the highest consumer satisfaction score of any car on the road, we are confident you will want to keep your Model 3.&lt;p&gt;Shifting all sales online, combined with other ongoing cost efficiencies, will enable us to lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, allowing us to achieve the $35,000 Model 3 price point earlier than we expected. Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Bold</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BoorishBears</author><text>I think they both deserve credit, in reality returning a 30 thousand dollar object is never going to be smooth.&lt;p&gt;The finance has already written you a check, they’ve already done all this leg work.&lt;p&gt;You’ve already driven it, if you’re purchasing it in earnest you might have already invested in charging infrastructure for your home, a whole laundry list of friction.&lt;p&gt;Then there’s what happens to the car you returned.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn’t want to be the guy stuck with a car that went through multiple 1000 mile “test drives” with Tesla’s reconditioning track record of delivering cars with toe nail clippings in the seat rails&lt;p&gt;(traditional dealers do have offers like this from time to time, but it’s exceedingly rare they’ll actually let you keep the car for more than a few hours, and most importantly &lt;i&gt;they don’t require you to buy the car first, they’ll take a deposit or let you rent the car&lt;/i&gt;)</text></comment>