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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,012 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 04:41 PM Apr 2025

Elon Musk to Tesla Cybertruck buyers: No take-backs. It's a lemon

Elon Musk to Tesla Cybertruck buyers: No take-backs. It’s a lemon

Updated: Apr. 02, 2025, 3:17 p.m. | Published: Apr. 02, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

By Lauren Sforza | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Elon Musk’s Tesla woes are continuing to pile up.

Tesla has faced a number of issues since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, including plummeting stock prices, fewer deliveries of its electric vehicles and mass protests against Musk at its dealerships. Many Americans are protesting Musk and his efforts to slash federal government spending as a part of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Now, some Cybertruck owners are reporting that Tesla will not accept its own vehicle as a trade-in, according to electric vehicle website Electrek.

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Elon Musk to Tesla Cybertruck buyers: No take-backs. It's a lemon (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 OP
SUCKER Henry203 Apr 2025 #1
How is this not fraud? Like a snake oil salesman? sakabatou Apr 2025 #2
When you're the richest man in the world, they let you do it. newdeal2 Apr 2025 #5
There's no law that a dealership Disaffected Apr 2025 #8
For a while there was a term in your purchase that said you had to EdmondDantes_ Apr 2025 #10
Early on Tesla guaranteed the resale value of model S cars. Voltaire2 Apr 2025 #33
True. sakabatou Apr 2025 #15
Musk really does have conservative values BOSSHOG Apr 2025 #3
"Ha ha, suckers and losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P. Chainsaw Chump (R-dipshit) BoRaGard Apr 2025 #4
Didn't TSF order several million dollars worth Hope22 Apr 2025 #6
If by "several" you mean "400", yes. (order now cancelled) eppur_se_muova Apr 2025 #9
Missed that news. Thanks! Hope22 Apr 2025 #11
I parked next to one of those Nazimobiles a few days ago. progressoid Apr 2025 #7
There's one I see driving around NW Columbus. mwb970 Apr 2025 #13
I saw one in Omaha NE that was painted Nebraska Husker red. progressoid Apr 2025 #21
They really do look like dumpsters. yardwork Apr 2025 #23
they look so ugly. hem. snork. AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #26
Elon is on the same trajectory as Rudy. mwb970 Apr 2025 #12
ghouliani has been scum for a very long time. .I despised him from the niyad Apr 2025 #17
Musk has always been scum. yardwork Apr 2025 #24
Just like the pillow guy exboyfil Apr 2025 #27
Way to go Musk! Effectively admitting the Cybertruck is a piece of garbage Wiz Imp Apr 2025 #14
Try $100K. Now not even worth $80K if you could even sell it...... AZ8theist Apr 2025 #18
Wow! I didn't know what they cost, but I thought I had heard $80,000 before. Wiz Imp Apr 2025 #19
Hopefully the Deplorean failure gets Eloon the hell out of government. AZ8theist Apr 2025 #22
Hey, drive it into some abandoned lot, and fill it with birdseed! calimary Apr 2025 #16
I will take it back for $2 and then hopefully sell it for a lot more to a maga Meowmee Apr 2025 #20
Any moron that bought one Mountainguy Apr 2025 #25
From "American Graffiti": DinahMoeHum Apr 2025 #28
Nobody has ever come away from a trump involvement in one piece. Nobody. Klarkashton Apr 2025 #29
My SIL wanted one exboyfil Apr 2025 #30
I assume that ugly thing was his attempt to sell vehicles to MAGAs as he pissed off his customer base prodigitalson Apr 2025 #31
Turns out Eloon's word is just as unbreakable as the cybertruck's windows. Xavier Breath Apr 2025 #32
Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #34

newdeal2

(4,693 posts)
5. When you're the richest man in the world, they let you do it.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 04:51 PM
Apr 2025

He’s dismantling all consumer protections, watchdogs and regulators for a reason.

Disaffected

(6,118 posts)
8. There's no law that a dealership
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:16 PM
Apr 2025

has to accept anything as a trade-in, even its own model(s).

EdmondDantes_

(1,311 posts)
10. For a while there was a term in your purchase that said you had to
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:30 PM
Apr 2025

At least for the first year of ownership sell it back to Tesla. I guess supply outpaced demand

Voltaire2

(15,377 posts)
33. Early on Tesla guaranteed the resale value of model S cars.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:12 PM
Apr 2025

I had a friend who sold his back to tesla for the guaranteed price.

sakabatou

(45,704 posts)
15. True.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:14 PM
Apr 2025

I'm trying to interpret what Musk is saying. Is he admitting that his company is selling lemons, or that all used Teslas become lemons?

Hope22

(4,419 posts)
6. Didn't TSF order several million dollars worth
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 04:53 PM
Apr 2025

Of those trucks. Did we buy trucks that we won’t receive or get use out of. Hmmmm….

progressoid

(52,502 posts)
7. I parked next to one of those Nazimobiles a few days ago.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:09 PM
Apr 2025

I don't drive anything fancy. But next to that heap of metal, my car looked like a queen.

mwb970

(12,056 posts)
13. There's one I see driving around NW Columbus.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:10 PM
Apr 2025

It is the ugliest motor vehicle I have ever seen. It looks like a Fascist fantasy made out of a garbage dumpster. Yuck.

progressoid

(52,502 posts)
21. I saw one in Omaha NE that was painted Nebraska Husker red.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 09:49 PM
Apr 2025

I imagine he thinks it's the coolest thing on wheels. I thought it just looked ludicrous.

yardwork

(68,884 posts)
23. They really do look like dumpsters.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 12:31 PM
Apr 2025

I parked next to one a month or so ago and it felt just like squeezing into the spot next to the dumpster.

I hear they rust, too.

mwb970

(12,056 posts)
12. Elon is on the same trajectory as Rudy.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:09 PM
Apr 2025

He was successful and respected. Then he hooked up with trump and everything in his life immediately turned to crap.

trump, of course, was unaffected and continues in his evil ways with no consequences. Who's next?

niyad

(129,333 posts)
17. ghouliani has been scum for a very long time. .I despised him from the
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:31 PM
Apr 2025

minute I heard about the way he treated wife #2.

yardwork

(68,884 posts)
24. Musk has always been scum.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 12:36 PM
Apr 2025

Read about how his first marriage ended. The guy has been a mean con artist from day one. Raised by literal Nazis, overstayed his student visa in the U.S., lied about his resume (he doesn't have the degrees he claims to have. No engineering degree. No advanced degrees. He might have an undergraduate degree in Econ, maybe), stole other peoples' ideas, consistently ignores design flaws in his products, runs his businesses like concentration camps, abuses drugs, abuses women, is estranged from his grown kids.... he's just like Trump. A complete fraud.

exboyfil

(18,332 posts)
27. Just like the pillow guy
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 12:57 PM
Apr 2025

Who as photographed with an insurrection plan in his pocket.

Wiz Imp

(8,743 posts)
14. Way to go Musk! Effectively admitting the Cybertruck is a piece of garbage
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:11 PM
Apr 2025

So what if you screw over your customers (who spent $80,000 on the monstrosity) in the process.

Wiz Imp

(8,743 posts)
19. Wow! I didn't know what they cost, but I thought I had heard $80,000 before.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:59 PM
Apr 2025

I just checked and the most basic one apparently started at around $80,000 and the top line version is $120,000.

I can't understand why anyone would ever buy one period. It's the ugliest vehicle I've ever seen. Add in all the issues that have been discovered with them and they have to be a candidate for the biggest failure in automotive history.

AZ8theist

(7,055 posts)
22. Hopefully the Deplorean failure gets Eloon the hell out of government.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 12:29 PM
Apr 2025

But not a single shit is given for anybody would bought that piece of crap....

calimary

(88,861 posts)
16. Hey, drive it into some abandoned lot, and fill it with birdseed!
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:18 PM
Apr 2025

The birds will do a very creative (AND textural) remodel!

Even better if some four-leggeds start homesteading!

 

Mountainguy

(2,145 posts)
25. Any moron that bought one
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 12:48 PM
Apr 2025

Deserves the ripoff they are getting.


If Musk was half as smart as he thinks he is, he'd have kept his goofy ass out of politics and funded a back to the future reboot using the cyber truck instead of the DeLorean, and used that to market it.

exboyfil

(18,332 posts)
30. My SIL wanted one
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:01 PM
Apr 2025

Guess he can get one now for a steep reduction. Of course he traded up to a larger Tesla sedan before the election.

He is a great husband and father, but we do have a point of disagreement that neither bring up. At least he doesn't vote. My wife, daughters, and me all reliably vote for Democrats (it doesn't make much of difference in Iowa).

prodigitalson

(3,186 posts)
31. I assume that ugly thing was his attempt to sell vehicles to MAGAs as he pissed off his customer base
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:03 PM
Apr 2025

of people concerned about climate change.

This will probably be studied in future marketing classes as how not to conduct yourself in the market.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,270 posts)
34. Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 02:22 PM
Apr 2025

No trade ins.

Tesla is sitting on 0 million worth of Cybertruck inventory

Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T02:43:16.956Z



https://electrek.co/2025/04/01/tesla-is-sitting-on-200-million-worth-of-cybertruck-inventory/
Tesla has about $200 million worth of Cybertrucks in inventory in the US, as the truck is extremely difficult to sell.

A year and a half into production, Cybertruck production has ramped up, and inventory is building up.

Last year, Tesla could blame low Cybertruck deliveries on the production ramp, the more expensive Foundation Series, and the lack of access to the $7,500 tax credit.

All of those excuses are not available to Tesla this year. The Cybertruck is simply proving challenging to sell, and the automaker has to throttle down production to avoid building up too much inventory.

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