The model I saw last week when I was thinking about buying is different than the model I saw this week. The price I saw last week for the set of features I remember selecting is different than the price I see this week.

They need to calm the rate of change here. It's been all over the map in Q1.

It was also all over the map in Q3 and Q4 of last year (when I was buying a Model 3).

However, I would take this any day over the opaque prices at a dealership.

Ever heard of sales? Companies do this constantly.

First of all, I doubt that the average Tesla customer is wealthy enough that they're in a position to shrug and ambivalently pay whatever the website tells them on that particular day, like they're in the checkout aisle of a grocery store or the pump at a gas station. When it comes to $50,000 purchases, people generally like to plan ahead.

Second, the comparison isn't against dealers (which are awful), the comparison is against the ideal. All I'm saying is that Tesla is shooting itself in the foot with its inconsistency. Bringing up dealers is a whataboutism.

Bringing up prices and ideal scenarios is whatboutism. These updates are about real features, not prices or fake ideal scenarios.

Huh? No it's not. The point under discussion is whether Tesla should be changing their pricing so often. I'm arguing that it would be better if they didn't. That's not a whataboutism. Deflecting the criticism and saying "at least it's not as bad as the dealers" is, on the other hand, pretty much the archetypal whataboutism.

>The point under discussion is whether Tesla should be changing their pricing so often.

Heh no, you introduced that point yourself in a classic whataboutism move.

Tesla started the actual topic under discussion, which is updates to the Model S and X cars.