Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year

TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ferrari has some similar bullshit, but you agree to it in a contract when you buy the car. If you refuse they simply don’t sell you the car.

  (Ferrari chooses you, not the other way around)

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  • jwt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you refuse they simply don’t sell you the car.

    Sure, question is of course: will they be able to do something about it if you agree to the terms and sell it anyway. I don’t think ‘breaking’ an agreement based on unlawful stipulations is actionable (ianal)

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    • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For Ferrari, if you break their stipulations, they put you on a blacklist and won’t sell you another ever again. I imagine it comes with some other stigmas from the community too. But much like real estate covenants if you agree to something in a contract, and then break it, you’re subject to civil action. In a Covenant, the contract holders are permitted to buy back your house and evict you.

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      • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If I recall correctly, Ferrari being assholes is why Lamborghini isn’t just a tractor brand.

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      • jwt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah for the people in question (buying ferraris/teslas) that blacklisting part might be deterrence enough. Still, even in that real estate covenant construction you mention, that ‘something’ they stipulate cannot be unlawful I think.

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Deadmau5 was threatened with a lawsuit over his “Purrari” Nyan cat livery.

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• Mamertine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How does Monsanto avoid this?

  They sell you seeds. You can grow things with those seeds, but you cant plant the grown plants’ seeds.

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  • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In that case, it’s a patented product that happens to reproduce itself as part of its normal operation.

    In this case, it’s just shitty business behavior.

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    • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On the plus side, some of those patents have already expired.

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  • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s even worse than that. You can buy seeds from the market place have no agreement with Monsanto but can’t plant those seeds.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

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