Car culture is weird
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
after submitting a $122,135 order
The buyer told us that he paid a $250 order fee on Friday and previously paid a $100 reservation fee.
Tesla doesn’t have to refund those types of fees if a buyer cancels
You have to pay $350 to get the privilege to fork over a hundred and twenty-five grand? My jaw literally dropped.
tyrant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tesla culture* Normal car enthusiasts aren’t like this
Azal@pawb.social 6 months ago
Honestly Tesla culture reminds me of any brand of car fanboyism. The ones I got most familiar with was the supposed “hot rodders” that viewed a junked out piece of rust that’s sat in a field 20 years worth thousands of dollars to spend thousands of dollars to not drive it. Got sick of it as someone who’s first car was a 70s one and attempting to find parts and pieces was people telling a high schooler to just take it to a shop and spend more than I’ve spent on my current modern car+motorcycle because none of them actually bothered working on their shit before.
Now I said that, there’s also the motorcycle culture, and we’re weird as fuck.
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This feels a little more, I don’t know, direct than car culture mentality. Buying a Telsa, at least in past few years, feels like direct support to one person. I don’t see people with expensive sportscars and assume they think the CEO of the manufacturer is a hero. Telsa buyers probably don’t feel that way, but stuff like this leads me to believe they do.
JCreazy@midwest.social 6 months ago
Yes and an overwhelming amount of people love doing it.
Poggervania@kbin.social 6 months ago
You forget we live in a society where we have bought tickets and raffles for the chance of being able to buy Air Jordans or Yeezys or w/e fuck shoe that did that.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Actually, I missed that. And I’d rather go back to unknowing it. Shoe shopping is a chore, not a prize.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve been wearing the same two pairs of shoes for about 4 years now. I thought one pair was failing earlier in the year, but the glue repair held and I’ve continued to wear them.