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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,033 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:41 PM Wednesday

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

newdeal2

(2,197 posts)
5. When you're the richest man in the world, they let you do it.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:51 PM
Wednesday

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

Disaffected

(5,483 posts)
8. There's no law that a dealership
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 06:16 PM
Wednesday

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

EdmondDantes_

(371 posts)
10. For a while there was a term in your purchase that said you had to
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 06:30 PM
Wednesday

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

Voltaire2

(15,366 posts)
33. Early on Tesla guaranteed the resale value of model S cars.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 02:12 PM
Thursday

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

sakabatou

(44,444 posts)
15. True.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:14 PM
Wednesday

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

(3,821 posts)
6. Didn't TSF order several million dollars worth
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:53 PM
Wednesday

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

progressoid

(51,186 posts)
7. I parked next to one of those Nazimobiles a few days ago.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 06:09 PM
Wednesday

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

mwb970

(11,790 posts)
13. There's one I see driving around NW Columbus.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:10 PM
Wednesday

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

progressoid

(51,186 posts)
21. I saw one in Omaha NE that was painted Nebraska Husker red.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 10:49 PM
Wednesday

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

yardwork

(66,053 posts)
23. They really do look like dumpsters.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:31 PM
Thursday

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

(11,790 posts)
12. Elon is on the same trajectory as Rudy.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:09 PM
Wednesday

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

(123,042 posts)
17. ghouliani has been scum for a very long time. .I despised him from the
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:31 PM
Wednesday

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

yardwork

(66,053 posts)
24. Musk has always been scum.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:36 PM
Thursday

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

(18,187 posts)
27. Just like the pillow guy
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:57 PM
Thursday

Who as photographed with an insurrection plan in his pocket.

Wiz Imp

(4,602 posts)
14. Way to go Musk! Effectively admitting the Cybertruck is a piece of garbage
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:11 PM
Wednesday

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

Wiz Imp

(4,602 posts)
19. Wow! I didn't know what they cost, but I thought I had heard $80,000 before.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:59 PM
Wednesday

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

(6,677 posts)
22. Hopefully the Deplorean failure gets Eloon the hell out of government.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:29 PM
Thursday

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

calimary

(85,702 posts)
16. Hey, drive it into some abandoned lot, and fill it with birdseed!
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:18 PM
Wednesday

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

Even better if some four-leggeds start homesteading!

Mountainguy

(1,657 posts)
25. Any moron that bought one
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:48 PM
Thursday

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

(18,187 posts)
30. My SIL wanted one
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 02:01 PM
Thursday

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

(3,058 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, 02:03 PM
Thursday

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

(160,957 posts)
34. Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 03:22 PM
Thursday

No trade ins.
https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3llseisufv22y



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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