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The Beginning of the End of Tesla

08/15/2017 4:49 PM
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Re: The beginning of the end of Tesla

08/15/2017 5:15 PM

I can see where they(the dealer) might just find this guy annoying....

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08/15/2017 6:35 PM

I can see where the guy would find the dealer's lack of response even more annoying.

$400 thousand dollars spent on their products and they won't even give the guy a new seat?

I'd be livid!

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08/15/2017 7:01 PM

Hey I been waiting for an airbag replacement for years, more serious than a little rip in the seatcover...

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08/15/2017 7:57 PM

And you drive a Ford, right?

You're retired too, right.

The dealer would get to know me very well if that were my vehicle and I carried passengers in that seat.

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08/15/2017 9:06 PM

The dealer doesn't have the airbags....it's not their fault, they are waiting just like everybody else...Neither does Ford or Honda or any of the other vehicles recalled for the Tata airbags...When they get the replacements they install them but they can't change them all at once...You have to know who to pick your fights with and when....

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08/16/2017 12:32 AM

It's not just about the seat.

The torn seat and their being oblivious to the guy's problems is a metaphor for their having lost their way is what the guy is saying.

We've seen this 'go fcuk yourself' attitude from Silicon Valley countless times before where they get themselves into such a position with the customers that they feel they can insulate themselves from any comeback by fiddling with the small print and ever changing customer agreements, which itself fosters this attitude and removes the parent from any direct contact with the customers by handing it off to the dealers, to the point that the only way to respond to that is by doing what this guy is doing in taking legal action in the forlorn hope they might wake the hell up from their complacent stupor.

But as usual with Silicon Valley, this guy's and every other complainants woes are falling on deaf ears or his legal action would never have gotten this far.

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08/16/2017 1:55 AM

Well first of all you're only getting his side of the story....he could have an axe to grind for whatever reason....I've seen people come out and badmouth a company because they were short the stock, in fact this happens all the time....Anybody that would take this guy's story at face value is a fool....he could be lying through his teeth you wouldn't know the difference....Where's the flood of other customer's complaints? This sounds like anecdotal evidence to me at best...You want to know what's going on with a company, look at its stock price, you can't fool the market....

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-stock-surges-after-analyst-warns-it-is-a-mistake-to-bet-against-the-model-3-ramp-2017-08-14

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08/16/2017 9:55 AM

"you can't fool the market...."

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08/16/2017 5:12 PM

I had our Takata air bags replaced on our Honda.

When we received the notice that they needed replacing, we went in and said we weren't comfortable driving the car and Honda got us a rental car (that they paid for)until the bags were installed . We had the rental about a month. We were told about this by the wife's coworker who didn't even wait for the notice. They took in the newspaper article and had a paid for rental for several months.

I also assume if they are paying for your rental, you will go to the front of the line when the bags come in.

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08/15/2017 7:24 PM

One characteristic of many (techno-pioneers) is that their competitors tend to, first, learn from the originator's mistakes, and then, a few of those competitors go on to surpass those originators ...

(e.g.: Wilbur and Orville Wright repeatedly demonstrated that powered human flight could actually work, but they never got much of a Contract to build (aircraft) for the U. S. Military... Essentially, they just wound up showing their budding competitors one way how to do it, who in turn, figured out their own improved ways of doing what ever their particular ''it'' happened to be...)

So, we'll just have to watch and learn what the rest of the Testla-story turns out to be... (film at eleven?...)

This too may, some day, also become serialized and/or soap-opera-ed on Netflix...

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08/15/2017 10:42 PM

What happened to the Store Sign, "You break it, You buy it"? The law might actually apply BOTH ways to that statement.

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Re: The beginning of the end of Tesla

08/16/2017 12:49 AM

Arrogance will get you nowhere??

A pioneer is a good thing, but one must serve a Customer to make a business operate and continue.

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08/16/2017 5:59 AM

Tesla is over-extended. Look at the price of a share and the dividend (what's that?). They can't afford the money to provide proper after-sales service. Are you thinking of getting rid of your Tesla? Watch what happens when the stock market tumbles and the lenders call in their monies. You'll really be worrying about your service then. Meanwhile enjoy!

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08/16/2017 6:00 AM

Cohen's "litany of problems" bullet list has a familiar ring to it - a lot in common with those of the personal computer as it matured. And they still persist. The problems would kill your productivity and piss you off, but they didn't get you stranded or injured or killed. Take his list and increase it a few orders of magnitude. That's the fun future of self driving cars that awaits us as we involuntarily beta test them for their manufacturers.

Oh, and yes, SE, you can fool the market in my opinion. Maybe not forever, but for a while. I think we're in the middle of that while.

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08/16/2017 1:15 PM

The only way you can fool the market is by deceit...try it and see what happens....ask

'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli....No, a large company like Tesla has analysts crawling all over it from one end to the other...

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08/16/2017 1:29 PM

DeLorean.

Enron.

Worldcom.

Stanford.

Bernie Madoff.

They all had analysts foaming at the mouth with exuberance.

Bernie even had the Securities and Exchange Commission crawling all over him and he got past their inspections to carry on fooling the market.

The one thing all those listed above had in common was an egotistical founder and CEO.

Ringing any bells yet?

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08/16/2017 2:38 PM

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08/16/2017 2:52 PM

Yeah what's their stock trading at?

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08/16/2017 3:49 PM

..."The one thing all those listed above had in common was an egotistical founder and CEO."...

You forgot Fraud, they had fraud in common...I don't see the relevance unless you're accusing Tesla of fraud??? Since I haven't heard that mentioned, I'll assume not....therefore your argument is without merit....

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08/17/2017 10:49 AM

I don't think you get it.

The fraud in all those cases I cited wasn't discovered until after each of the enterprises went down the tubes.

The article I started this thread with was about signals and the author was saying the signals that are starting to show indicate that Tesla is losing its way.

Which is always a precursor to companies going down the tubes.

But if you want to go on the fraud angle, Tesla has certainly committed a fraud by first admitting they ruined his seat and then not honoring their pledge that they would replace his seat.

Along with a host of other issues, which all remain unresolved.

That's why the guy is suing them - for breach of contract, ie, fraud.

They promised things they didn't follow through on - and that's fraud.

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08/17/2017 12:50 PM

So if he has so much proof as he says he does, he should have no problem prevailing in a court of law....You are assuming facts not in evidence....He may turn out to be completely delusional...Accusing someone of fraud, is not the same as proving it...besides one angry customer does not rise to the level of an Enron fiasco by any definition...

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08/17/2017 1:07 PM

I'm not an attorney... but I play one on CR4.

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08/17/2017 1:37 PM

"You are assuming facts not in evidence...."

I haven't assumed anything.

The facts as he has presented them are all there for anyone to see in his court filing, along with all his supporting evidence.

http://www.autonews.com/assets/PDF/CA111537815.PDF

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08/17/2017 4:41 PM

So he wants $50k for a squeaky seat and a puncture hole....haha, yeah good luck with that...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/

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08/16/2017 10:59 AM

This guy isn't the only person upset with Tesla.

About 63,000 people have canceled their Tesla Model 3 orders in the past year .....

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08/16/2017 7:23 PM

Those aren't owners, they are just people standing in line to be owners....They still have enough orders to become the largest selling car in America, something that has never happened...

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08/16/2017 7:30 PM

You can't sell them, if you don't produce them, plain and simple Elon has too many "pokers" in the fire

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08/16/2017 7:53 PM

Well if there aren't some bumps on the road to full production we would have to seriously consider if this is a human endeavour.....

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08/17/2017 2:47 AM

'This is a human endeavor .... Fordism led the way in not only in mass production but also affordable cars and fairly reliable considering back 1913-14. Something the younger kids seem to have lost sight of.

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08/17/2017 1:20 PM

Ha!....and if you would have told people what he was going to do even a couple of years before, nobody would have believed it! It was preposterous!

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08/18/2017 9:16 AM

I don't think they teach that in school any more.

I am sorry, Mr. Musk, you can keep your cars, and all the rest. I could not be less interested in your ideas or your products.

Dodge truck for me next time around. I will do the driving too, thank you, not Mr. Autonomous, whoever that is. With a name like that, I just don't trust him.

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08/21/2017 9:18 AM

I don't buy new, I can always find another "beater", and beat on it enough to make it run.

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