Re:Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars on...
by ypzhang2 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:11PM
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There's a big difference in cost and complexity between buying a car online and buying clothing online though, especially if financing is involved (not many people are going to have the cash on hand to float on 2-3 vehicles at any one time).
Re:Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars on...
by jjulius on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:33PM
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I can have 7 shirts shipped to my house and they take up a very small footprint. If I'm trying to decide between 7 cars, I'm going to have a hard time finding a place to put all of them, as will most people. That's on top of having to deal with financing multiple cars just to test drive them all.
Re:Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars on...
by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday March 01, 2019 @08:52AM
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And as others have pointed out, removing financing from your credit report is not so easy even if you return the car. And I doubt most people would be able to get loans approved for multiple cars at the same time.
Re:Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars on...
by alkibiades on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:11PM
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buying 3 cars is a little different than t shirts
Re:Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars on...
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:17PM
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The implication that the extension of the expectation from online clothing retail to online automobile retail was unreasonable was intended, yes.
No, they expect you to buy all of them in parallel and return all but the one you want.
I mean, it’s the model lots of people have been using with clothing since online discount retailers with generous return policy started undercutting brick-and-mortar.