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Angry Tesla Customers in China Vandalized Store After Learning About Price Cuts

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I’m sorry, I think Tesla does a bunch of BS, but any time you buy a product there’s a chance the price will drop the day after. You don’t get buy something and then demand what is functionally a partial refund of what you paid if/when the price drops later.

I guess unless you’re willing to pay them more if the price increases in future?

Tesla dropped the price twice in 3 months though. And it's a huge price purchase. I think there's justification. It's not like you're buying a dish washer.

There's really never a justification for damaging another person's property.

Besides that, a Tesla is a luxury item, these buyers are owed nothing and are acting spoiled and entitled.

And let's say you reimburse the difference. How far back do you go? There's always going to be some arbitrary line and some people are going to feel unlucky. Such is life.

Maybe go back a quarter?

It's common for US companies to reimburse the difference in price after a short while, usually around 30 days. Costco and Amazon will do this.

I would be pissed off if I'm a Tesla customer.

And now the person that bought (quarter + 1) days ago would be pissed.

>According to Chinese blogger 不是郑小康, the angry customers got inside the shop, vandalized it, damaged the electric Cyberquad ATV, and ‘stole various gifts and snacks’.

Wait... the Tesla store sells snacks in China? In America car dealers tend to not charge for food and drink, though it's not exactly artisanal coffee paired with a croissant, more like a mug of black coffee and a fistful of M&Ms from a candy dispenser intended for children if your blood sugar is getting low. Definitely nothing worth breaking in and stealing :-)

> gifts and snacks

> the Tesla store sells snacks in China?

Why would you presume that, especially since it's paired with "gifts"?

Because many car dealerships in the United States of America do sell small things like tshirts, jackets, plushies etc.

(There was a whole Seinfeld episode about someone who buys Porche memorabilia to pretend they have a fancy car and meet women IIRC, and Teslas in the 2020s seem to attract the same kind of guy who bought a Porche in the 90s.)

Hope that explains my thought process -- have a nice day! :-)

> Since then, Grace Tao has worked hard toward stopping this negative PR. And it helped. Despite the occasional accidents that still happen to Tesla cars in China (and will always happen as for any other automaker), Chinese media didn’t pay them so much attention in 2022 as back in 2021.

It can’t be helping Tesla that they don’t have a PR team to counter the negative PR.

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