<story><title>Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/04/11/tesla-hikes-solar-roof-price-on-contracts-signed-over-a-year-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Adding insult to injury, Tesla also states that they “will be prioritizing customers based on the order in which they accept their updated agreements.” For customers who have already been waiting for months or a year for their new roof, they are now being told that they need to agree to spend tens of thousands more dollars, as quickly as possible, if they want to reduce their wait time.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;okay, let me get this straight. They&amp;#x27;re increasing the cost of a contract you&amp;#x27;d already signed and then they&amp;#x27;re passive aggressively threatening customers to push them to the back of the queue if they don&amp;#x27;t agree?&lt;p&gt;Excuse the profanity but holy shit, that is the most brazen thing I&amp;#x27;ve read in a long time. How can that be legal</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s legal enough, but what is also legal is that the other party exits the contract right there and then. Tesla offers to change the contract, and the other party does not have to agree.&lt;p&gt;If they need a new roof they can go to a regular roofer instead at a fraction of the cost.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/04/11/tesla-hikes-solar-roof-price-on-contracts-signed-over-a-year-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Adding insult to injury, Tesla also states that they “will be prioritizing customers based on the order in which they accept their updated agreements.” For customers who have already been waiting for months or a year for their new roof, they are now being told that they need to agree to spend tens of thousands more dollars, as quickly as possible, if they want to reduce their wait time.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;okay, let me get this straight. They&amp;#x27;re increasing the cost of a contract you&amp;#x27;d already signed and then they&amp;#x27;re passive aggressively threatening customers to push them to the back of the queue if they don&amp;#x27;t agree?&lt;p&gt;Excuse the profanity but holy shit, that is the most brazen thing I&amp;#x27;ve read in a long time. How can that be legal</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>The shady behaviour here is that they are framing this as &amp;#x27;updated terms&amp;#x27; that people have to accept. Indeed this is quite aggressive and should cause whatever regulator&amp;#x2F;authorities to look into their practices.&lt;p&gt;Of course what they are actually doing is they are &lt;i&gt;proposing&lt;/i&gt; new terms, which customers are free to refuse. The existing contracts stand and Tesla would need to follow whatever is permitted in the contract or contract law to cancel it or be liable for compensation.&lt;p&gt;I would also think that there ought to be an expectation of a reasonable deadline to execute the contract or customers can ask for a refund (at a minimum) and walk away, but IANA.</text></comment>