1 yr. ago

Tesla will sue you if you try to flip your low-VIN Cybertruck

If you've got an early Cybertruck reservation, you may be thinking you could flip it for profit. Not if Tesla has anything to say about it.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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I took me far too long in the article too realize that it was not about trying to intentionally roll the car over.
- Ye, is "flip your low-VIN [car]" technical jargon or was I supposed to understand it?
  
  To flip something, in this context, means to sell it.
  
  And a VIN is a Vehicle Identification Number. It’s essentially the serial number of the car, with a lower number indicating an earlier production time.
  
  So in short, Tesla will sue people who are trying to resell their early production model cybertrucks.
I saw one on the road the other day and they're even uglier and more ungainly in person.
- Wait - they broke out of Musk's evergreen "yeah - the thing I'm talking about is just a couple of short years from delivery, abs it'll be great"?
  
  There are about a dozen "proof of concept" models out in the wild, mostly owned by Tesla execs and buddies of Elmo. There's one cruising around in Austin, apparently.
How would that even work? If someone owns the vehicle how do they tell that person what they can or can not do with it?
- Braces for the downvotes.
  
  Teslas are SaaS on wheels. Most EVs are sadly.
Good luck enforcing that anywhere where they have customer protection laws. Hey, I would love to see a rich person going to court just to settle that once and for all.

Heck, what can they do if I give it to a friend? They can't prove said friend then sent me a cheque to pay for it.

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