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Old 12-06-2018, 03:04 PM   #1048
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Originally Posted by clyde View Post
Did you know that taking the refund would mean no free supercharging?
Yeah, we knew. That was the twitter fight Elon had with some guy named Fred who runs a tesla blog.

Fred: This price drop is BS and punishes early adopters
Elon: But you got free supercharging
Fred: That's BS. You used to charge just $2k for free supercharging
Elon: Fine, if you want to give up free supercharging you can have your $5k back

BOOM. And he followed through.

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How much does supercharging cost? Is it even comparable to the point someone with a working brain would even think about it?
Supercharging depends on how much you use it. I will almost never use it, so it's worth nearly zero to me. But even if you use it a lot it would be hard to use up $5k worth. It's also not transferable if you sell the car.

Now guess who is pissed off and won't stop complaining - those who didn't buy the $5k performance upgrade package. With this refund they will have paid the same* as the people who ordered the PUP, but they don't get the package.

*Minus taxes. They don't seem to be refunding taxes.
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