Why is a damage checklist a Tesla specific problem? Bought plenty of cars(and trucks and tractors) where I went over them at delivery. Found more than a few things of which were sorted out by the dealer at the time.

Huh. Not my experience at all.

Had a loose headboard near the sunroof. Had an appt and fixed inside of a week. I'm sure there's outliers as there would be with any high volume product but I find it suspect that these type of things wouldn't get sorted out in warranty.

For what it's worth I've seen much worse. Our last tractor we bought didn't have a driveshaft connected(!) so 4WD was kaput. Once that was sorted someone put a bell housing on in reverse so it was making a lovely metal-on-metal sound(!). This is all from a very well regarded brand and a high volume dealer. Screw ups happen but unless you're dealing with a fly-by-night company they'll get sorted out since everyone hates bad press.

Common in my experience receiving goods on delivery. Take your time. They understand.

Your anecdote differs from what I read on the Tesla forums and Twitter, where pepe are being rushed to sign. Go see for yourself, there are many posts. Big oil conspiracy?

Did you actually buy a Tesla or are you just basing your assessment on some twitter trolling and forum posts ? I have recently bought both a BMW and a Tesla. The difference in sales experience is night and day. While buying a BMW I had to deal with multiple shady sales person churning out one soft lie after another and trying to hard sell unnecessary upgrades, extra insurance and protection etc. For Tesla, I just ordered online and then went and picked my car when it was ready. Some owners do fuss over small details during delivery as early production Teslas had minor quality issues. But Tesla is going to deliver well over 200k car this year and some customer will inevitably have a bad delivery experience

Sorry, I have no experience with Tesla. I see what you mean on the forums. That is indeed very poor and contrary to inspection on delivery practices.

Why would you care about paper signing? I'm pretty sure they could find your car for you before signing if you cared. They did that for me, not that I would care much. I don't understand your delivery damage checklist statement. But if that's the worst people are reporting about Tesla sales practices then lol.

If you think that's the worst thing people are complaining about, you aren't paying attention.

But this is the same community that didn't see the Theranos fraud, either. Blind eye for Silicon Valley.