Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units

Posted by doener 8 hours ago

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Comment by quicklywilliam 3 hours ago

The real question is who bought the other 5,742 of them

Comment by thelastgallon 1 hour ago

YouTube influencers who are showing off how successful they are and everyone should buy their courses to copy their success. Exhibit A for success: Cybertruck in background.

Comment by bmitc 26 minutes ago

It's kind of weird. I haven't met a single person in real life that doesn't basically giggle out of embarrassment for the driver when a Cybertruck goes by. No one I know thinks they're cool in the slightest, and they're openly laughed at. It's bizarre that anyone thinks they're cool.

Comment by bmitc 31 minutes ago

How is this deemed not a conflict of interest? SpaceX is almost totally funded by the government. You can't use government funds to buy your own products.

Comment by ls612 1 hour ago

At least 5-10 people in the apartment I live in, plus more on the streets of Nashville.

Comment by ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799420

Comment by jazz9k 8 hours ago

This also happens in the Startup community....

Comment by nickff 7 hours ago

It is very popular in many industries; when it is accomplished by convincing re-sellers to take in more stock than they desire, it is called 'stuffing the channel'. Book publishers are famous for doing this to achieve 'best-seller' status.

Comment by hnburnsy 7 hours ago

Currently no in stock new or used and a two month delivery estimate.

Comment by thelastgallon 1 hour ago

Wait for SpaceX to resell these to Tesla at a significant loss. Tesla sells these used at a decent profit, boosting both numbers and profits.

Comment by vel0city 6 hours ago

> two month delivery estimate.

Their website for my zip said two weeks.

Which seems like a long while, seeing as how their big "can't-call-it-a-dealsership" nearby has like 20-30 sitting on the lot for a while. I imagine they'd make their two week estimate early.

There's about 30 or so listed used online around me.

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Comment by jgbuddy 8 hours ago

What would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they were purchased at all?

The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective

Comment by browningstreet 7 hours ago

Elon keeps doing things that make no sense from a business perspective and he’s defended by people who exclaim it couldn’t have happened like that because it makes no sense from a business perspective.

Comment by nitwit005 6 hours ago

The general behavior of doing things that don't particularly make sense from a business perspective, to make numbers look better, is unfortunately common. People exploit it by doing things like trying to get a discount near end of quarter.

Comment by bmitc 28 minutes ago

I'm fairly certain that a lot of Musk's recent moves of creating that umbrella AI company, doing things like this, etc. are all to pass around the dept he took on when he purchased Twitter. He's effectively money laundering his debt through a ton of shenanigans.

Comment by solarkraft 5 hours ago

“This makes no sense” => “I don’t understand the purpose”

The most obvious motive is juicing the numbers.

Comment by aucisson_masque 5 hours ago

> The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective

I think you missed the part where Tesla is overevaluated and any bad news could utterly crush it's share value.