golfcart said:lorenfb said:golfcart said:In addition, my friend reserved one last week, I have seen his account, it says $35000 standard range on it.
And what's the quoted delivery date??? We all remember 2016/2017 where a M3 delivery was essentially "Will Advise" on the $1K deposit.
Irrelevant to the discussion of whether or not you can buy one still.
You're naive, of course it's relevant! Any company can take an order, as Tesla did in 2016, but the key is a committed delivery date.
Most companies, e.g. Amazon, Best Buy, & Apple, provide delivery dates when an order is placed. An order only has validity when
a product delivery acknowledgement has a committed date. Otherwise it's basically a "Will Advise" order based on the whims of the
the product sales/marketing department, i.e. given the profitability of the order. Since Elon has stated that the cost of the M3 is
basically $39K, Tesla's motivation to deliver M3's at breakeven or less is marginal at best! So although Tesla will accept orders for a $35K M3,
the key issue is really whether many actually get delivered, especially in 2019.