Tesla commits ‘oopsie-daisy’. Cybertruck makes a ‘big boo-boo’.
Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
‘bait-and-switch’ They’ll really call it anything but fraud huh.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes but bait and switch has less negative connotations and implies some cleverness on the part of the fraduster. Nothing even remotely clever was done here, Tesla made a deal and then flat out broke it Trump Style.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bait and switch is literally promosing something and fhen replacing it with something else, which is what happened here. It doesn’t imply any cleverness and has eextremely negative connotations.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cultural difference perhaps? I’ve always known it to be more specific, still roughly that but usually the replacement item is visually very similar and the victim accepts it after previously being shown a similar but non-shitty version. Like those black friday TVs you get in the US that look just like the brand name ones people expect them to be but are actually shittier electronics shoved into the same casings.