What a cheap mother fucker Tesla and Elon are. Could have just paid for the pies and come out looking good. But instead nickel and dimes for just the ingredients. When you’re a billionaire. Fuck outta here.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Because money does not create class.
Tbf, this time it didn't seem like Elon was behind this, probably some manager in the dealership. The article also said he commented they would pay her when he heard the news.
Yeah, this isn't really a "Tesla Bad" type story. It's a "every multibillionaire dollar company is out of touch and doesn't care" type story.
Honestly, I think it's a store manager is an asshole, but happens to work for a company that's an easy target story.
What about the cost of labor and lost sales?
I am not defending Tesla's actions, but I don't think any sales were actually lost. After the press coverage, people started showing up en masse to buy from them.
The original article I read about this quoted the owner regarding sales that were turned down in order to fulfill Tesla's order.
I'm glad to hear the community has rallied around the business, but that doesn't excuse Tesla from bilking them.
I’m glad to hear the community has rallied around the business, but that doesn’t excuse Tesla from bilking them.
Exactly. Excuses like these are just a stone throw away from "You should pay Tesla to give your business work. Just think of the expose you get!" rhetoric. Tesla is essentially riding into the sunset on the back of the wonderful community that came in to show support for a local business. It's a happy end only in spite of Teslas awful role in it.
What, you don't get paid in exposure?
If anyone knows the conversion rate for exposures to USD, can you let me know? I'm having trouble getting anyone to accept it as currency...
They literally turned down other businesses to fill Tesla’s order. What do you call that? Tesla needed to pay their full bill.
That's not how this works, but thank you for the silver lining here. People try to be good, even if Elon and Tesla are bad.
Man, what a bunch of dickheads. Granted, the bakery are dummies in not waiting for the payment to clear, but still. Two grand means nothing to Tesla, so they should’ve paid regardless. The bad publicity costs them way more than that.
Tesla already has so much bad press that this was hardly even a drop in the bucket for them.
Simply because they realized that someday they might want to order more.
Nah. 2k$ was a cheap PR face save for them. Pay 2k$ or deal for weeks and months with "remember how Tesla was a stingy bad corporate and cancelled a large order to a small business without compensation".
Noh they can go "Well yeah the cancellation wasn't exactly gracefully, but hey we compensated the business for it. Our bad."
Mind you even just paying the while 15k$ would have been small change for them. So I guess they are not utterly (business relations wise) horrible company, but still a cheap conglomerate.
Hope they get their contracts sorted for future scenarios; this could’ve ended far worse
They definitely need more strict and clear terms of service sorted out. But to think that this business has dealt with dozens of huge tech corporations like Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and many others before and this is the first time this has ever happened to them says a lot about Tesla's financial culture.
Yeah! Get a deposit. Enough so as not to be ruined.