Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

John & Angela wrote:

time2roll wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Wow! :E I didn't know this until I looked it up. Sure enough, Musk is now farming his own customers!
You can't get your finger off of number buttons and $1,000 goes into Musk's account; but when you try to get your deposit back from him it takes 1, 2, 3 months or more. Big interest there!

Remember ENRON? Or the Billionaire Boys Club? :E

I do not believe Tesla is intentionally delaying deposit refunds. The internal controls need to be in place to prevent fraud and it is a logistical nightmare for a business at this scale. Yes if it goes back to the exact same credit card in a short time it is easy. Issuing checks.... PITN. BTDT.

I agree. We know someone who decided to not wait another two years for their model 3 and instead bought a couple year old model S75. This was recent. They waited 6 weeks or so for their deposit return which is what they were told to expect. He now regrets cancelling the 3 and will be putting his name on the list again as they are going to replace their Camry with a Tesla as well.

We will have to disagree on this one.

This is a high tech company. For Christ sake, they have self driving cars! And they don't have the technology to reverse a charge on a CC? This so called high tech company can't even issue a refund in a timely fashion?

Either way you cut it, this is bad news for Tesla. If Tesla says "Oh we have a ton of people wanting refunds" that's not good because the big number they keep throwing out is bogus. If only a few want refunds, then what's the problem? You have a master list on your computer and you just check them off of your computer and issue a refund.

I say bovine excrement.