From the article:
The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000. He thinks this is a fair price […] if you added every optional extra that Tesla currently offers for the Cybertruck, given the $7,500 tax credit and the $2000 referral discount, (a brand new 2025) Cybertruck will still only cost around $86,000.
Nobody with a brain would pay more for a used vehicle. It’s not a collectible. “Founder’s edition” nowadays means “beta version” and it’s not something that’s worth more.
“can’t give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”
A brand new AWD CT from Tesla is $79,990.
Headline is clickbait. Seller is a whinger. Trash all round. Saved you a click.
Sorry to ask, but what is a “whinger”?
Whiner. Whinging is a synonym
But not back in the colonies, one would surmise.
I believe it means “whiner”. As in one who whines and complains.
I don’t know where @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net hails, but I just know this because I am a dad, which means I watch Bluey, and sometimes the dad on Bluey will tell the kids to “quit whinging”.
Huh, it’s common as in Australia.
Never thought of it as an Australian word. Odds are it has its roots in England though I guess
In Harry Potter, an English book, the Dursleys are from Little Whinging, because Rowling has no imagination.
I’ll take that as canon given her other extremely obvious names
Are you one of those people that whinged about Marvel having a character named Wong, when the actor who portrayed Wong, was named Wong?
What? No. What does that have to do with anything? I’m talking about names like Draco Malfoy.
She didn’t plagiarise all of Harry potter though so she must have some imagination. Creatively bankrupt might be more apt
Rowling’s goblins? Based on a racist caricature
The house elves? Wouldn’t you know it, also based on a racist caricature
Centaurs? You guessed it! Based on a racist caricature!
My Geordie friend uses it a lot, I think you’re right on the money.
(Geordies are from the region around Newcastle upon Tyne from what he told me, so part of northern England)
I love how watching taskmaster has given me knowledge of different accents
It’s like these people don’t even watch bluey smh my head
Yeah, somehow there really do be people who haven’t seen bluey. Crazy. It’s 2025 people.
I first heard it in the US in 2006 and had to ask what it meant.
Whinging and whining - though not exactly identical in meaning - are pretty much the same word to all intents and purposes in casual language.
@Zementid @CurlyWurlies4All Australian here. Whinging is complaining or whining
Pronounced like Hinge
That’s the thing. He’s trying to sell his used truck for more than the cost of a brand new one with the same configuration, if I read it correctly.
The guy fucked up buying this trash at a higher price early on, and now he’s just an asshole trying to rip other people off.
…he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.
Not saying the Cybertruck is a good thing, personally IDGAF about it, but calling this guy merely “a cybertruck owner” is bullshit. He’s a guy who makes money buying and selling expensive vehicles, and he’s whining about a deal that hasn’t worked out for him. Poor baby.
“I’ve owned it for 8 months. It is depreciating like a rock. I have already lost over $20k in 8 months. I want to cut my losses and move on, but I can’t give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”
This right here sums up the unrealistic expectations of the average Tesla owner. Cars immediately depreciate the moment you drive them off the lot, no car is immune to this. The average new car loses 10% in the first month after buying it. It loses over 20% in the first year. For those who are playing along this track’s with exactly how much this doofus has “lost” on his truck.
The average new car loses 10% in the first month after buying it. It loses over 20% in the first year.
The theory behind this is that you’d only be selling a slightly used car if it was a lemon. The exception to the rule is resellers who already have a buyer lined up when they take possession of the vehicle.
But because Musk-o-philes are all Bitcoin brained and cannot conceive of prices ever going down, they’re routinely shocked to discover that cars are for driving and not for speculating.
Anything’s for speculating if you’re dumb enough.
No, I’m not eating $2000 worth of fast food, I’m investing. People will pay 10x that for recently deceased human organs, and I’m using my money to unlock that earning potential
Also funny that he talks about the price depreciation, while complaining about not being able to sell it. How do you want to sell a buyer on “this will depreciate quickly in price, but please pay a price notably above current market prices”
Though I’d say this one takes it to a whole new level because of a few extra factors:
- Pre-orders were priced for exclusivity. Iirc, Tesla was having a lot of production/inventory issues when the pre-orders were collected. I’m not sure how much the deposits were, but they’d have added some sunk cost to the situation, making it harder to walk away when it might have been clear that they would be a shitshow. No one has a deposit on anyone’s used cyber truck to add incentive to pay the rest.
- Elon’s reputation hadn’t sunk so low when pre-orders were made. Iirc, it was after the whole submarine/pedophile thing, but it seems that many didn’t see the writing on the wall from that event.
- They turned out to be pretty bad. Other Teslas have and had issues but the cyber truck has had some particularly embarrassing ones for a truck. Like not handling rain or sand well.
- It looks so unique that it doesn’t really fly under the radar. The two other very hated vehicles I can think of off-hand, the PT Cruiser and the Aztec, were ugly but still looked similar enough to other vehicles that many people didn’t know what they were or that they were so unpopular. People could buy one before they realized, and it was easier to not care what others thought. The cyber truck looks like a 90s video game truck in a time when memes reach many more people, to the point where openly laughing at cyber trucks you see in RL might be a meme.
- Cars and trucks are expensive in general, but this one is on another level. While I might be behind on inflation, the price is comparable to a mid/low-end Porsche (~80k for a boxter, ~120k for a 911 is my benchmark, though it’s old but it’s also CAD, so maybe it works today for USD). A) why would someone want that more than a Porsche? B) most people can’t afford a Porsche.
Not to mention the people Elon is pandering to these days either have trouble affording his vehicles without a dealer trying to convince a bank to take the loan, or can easily afford it but have money in part because they don’t spend it on stupid shit like a cyber truck.
All of that on top of the usual depreciation.
Not to mention the stainless steel it’s made of is not even the type that resists rusting. Did you see the state of the Cyber truck that MKBHD sold? It look like a fucking derelict prop from a post-apocalyptic movie set.
Dumb people do dumb things. News at 11.
You’re right.
Top Gear did a piece about the Aston Martin Vantage. New, £170,000 (GBP). 20,000 miles later it was worth £80,000. 90k depreciation in less than a year.
Tesla’s have the absolute worst resale value compared to ICE, PHEV or Hybrids. Batteries degrade over time and with increased usage, so by the time you try to sell a Tesla that’s a few years old, a lot of the advertised maximum capacity has escaped from that battery and the cost of a replacement likely exceeds the value of the entire used car.
Two of my coworkers got fantastic deals on used Tesla’s because they go for so cheap on the secondary market and California is awash in them so there’s always someone somewhere trying to get rid of theirs and usually for less that what it would normally blue book for.
I can think of one way to get rid of it. Saw it on the news last week. He’s probably not going to like it.
Musk said it will be back on the road in no time. I don’t think it’s going to be quite that easy.
At least the driver was kind enough to drive it to Musk’s assistant’s place of business.
Just take a bulldozer and push it on the street. Still drives as reliable as before.
you can buy a brand-new Cybertruck straight from the manufacturer cheaper than Sledder is asking to sell his used truck.
Wow I wonder why there’s no takers
The paint job is totally worth the extra 19k you guyse!!!
The article says there’s a madman offering 50k cash for it. Poor soul.
Actually 50k sounds a lot closer to reasonable for a somewhat used car that currently sells new for 80k’ish. Of course, I’m saying that in the hypothetical generic car vacuum, not the actual “electric dumpster” reality.
Also Sledder ‘no low ball offers, I know what I git’
Sledder also shares that over his lifetime, - he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.
Oh, I’m so sorry sir, it’s frightfully unfair that this particular transaction has not worked out as favorablly as you’re used to. Would you care for a sparkling beverage while Life figures out how to make itself better for you?
“I can’t give this thing away.”
FTA: He’s not trying to give it away. He’s expecting last year’s used market value for it, but it’s steadily depreciating. Someone offered him 50k for it. He overpaid for a new car.
Pretty much, guy’s just being a Karen. “Broken TV from the 60’s, 500 dollars. Don’t low ball me, I know what I have.”
There is a Tesla dealership near my house that has a lot full of them. A ridiculous number. It seems that Tesla is struggling to get rid of them. Hard to believe that there is not a huge market for electric dumpsters sold by a conspicuous asshole.
I thought Tesla’s business model was to not have dealerships? Don’t you order Tesla’s online? Or are these second hand?
I don’t know. I assume it is either a dealership or a lot for the storage of inventory. They have multiple other Tesla models as well. It hasn’t been there long and isn’t labeled in Google maps. The photos in street view are years out of date and show buildings that were torn down.
Dealerships for other brands in the US are independent privately owned enterprises not owned by the major auto makers.
Tesla doesn’t have dealerships in this sense. They do have corporate owned locations in some states where they are allowed to sell directly to consumers however that is only some states as laws prohibit automakers from selling directly in many.
I don’t, but know I’ve definitely seen Tesla dealerships. They have full Tesla branding so I always assumed they were related to the company and not third party.
Apparently Elon unfollowed MKBHD after he posted selling his Founders Cybertruck at a $50K loss and saying the Rivian RT1 was a better truck lol.
Oh no! Did he huwt the widdle man’s feewings?
The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000.
The same dual-motor Cybertruck AWD variant now starts at $80,000. However, starting in 2025, the vehicle qualifies for the $7,500 point of sale tax credit. This further lowers the starting price to $72,500.
Tesla is also now offering a $2,000 discount to anyone who applies a referral code when buying the vehicle. That further lowers the starting price to $70,500.
LOLOL.
Everyone expects top dollar for used shit these days.
This fucking article goes on 3 more paragraphs after that about how great the current offerings from Tesla are. Feels like the whole thing is just a Cybertruck sales puff piece in disguise.
Guy can’t sell his because the new ones are just SO GOOD 🤡
And cheaper than ever!
Twas indeed a click bait puff piece.
the shitposter in me wants to say that this isn’t a problem you find a solution to, its karma for doing business with the devil.
Fuck tesla in general, but this isn’t even that. It’s the cost of early adoption. The founder’s edition of basically anything is going to be more expensive and less refined than following versions. Once production picks up, nobody really cares about used first runs because it’s more of a show-off piece. He’s just realizing that the number of people who fawn over his steel box isn’t enough to justify keeping that piece of shit.
many tesla owners have unfortunatley discovered that the brand value on the market is heavily attached to the personal reputation of elon musk,
Park it front of a hotel with something something has a fuse
Expensive lesson, try not being a sucker next time.
“Oh no my shitty car depreciated” god who would have guessed
Pictured: typical parking job from cyber truck owner.
Self parking. It enjoys rolling over a squirrel, cat, dog or pigeon.
