Tesla Responds to Cybertruck Owners Who Lost 50% of Their Vehicle’s Value in 1 Year – The EV Maker Says, “One More Post Like This and You Will be Getting $0”

But we knew those vehicles were a joke from the start, so what's the problem here, exactly?

Oh... so the offer was from back in March. You mean 9 whole days ago?

Oh... so the offer was from back in March. You mean 9 whole days ago?

The answer is not to sell to Carvana.

Between Autotrader, Carfax and eBay motors, there is currently not a single clean-title Cybertruck listed for resale for less than $72K.

So caravana is part of some mass conspiracy to under value the totally in demand cyber truck? 😹

If you don’t like the price, don’t sell it to them.

You know the guy who paid $200k for a Cybertruck probably can't pay his mortgage, right? 😂

I pity the poor fool who buys a car and expects it not to depreciate. Somehow these people were consciously able to fork out a 100% premium on a car from a car company notorious for lowering prices each run. And now their diamond is scratched and the world should weep. Nope

So the real question is - who would buy a mobile trash can for $50K? Pay me $50K and I might perhaps consider enduring to drive one for a year or maybe not. 🤣

I love it. The ugly beasts were vastly overpriced from the start. Musk must have spent at least $10,000 designing it - a bunch of flat steel at angles. No dealers, bad service, horrid owner - what's to like? I Like his downward slide.
The public is taking their financial chainsaw to his empire. Sorry Elon - you get back what you put out. Hasn't been nice knowing you.

Everything is not some backhanded attack against Musk because he's an open Nazi. The value of the vehicle is that low because it was overpriced to begin with and now that it's been out on the road and tested people can see that it's a toy sold to idiots.

What a passive, overly polite article about a truck that rolled off the assembly lines and parked in the recall line. It's a stupid truck. It's so ugly, it looks like a DeLorean got raped by a Hummer. If you release something that's immediately recalled, you did a bad job. People that buy these trucks don't care that they're driving one of the most poorly designed and expensive ways to not get laid. Eight recalls since 2023. If you were eating in a restaurant and had to send your food back eight times, would you really trust the ninth? The reason Tesla doesn't defend their junk cars is because they know their junk. Just to get an appointment at a dealership to fix your brand new 7,000-pound paperweight takes so long that by the time they fix it, its lost more value than when it was recalled. Cheap seats and the structural integrity of a Band-Aid, can you believe it? Why did I sign a 4-year lease? Must have been all the ketamine at the dealer's lounge.

the first vehicle I have ever wanted to push off a cliff ! they may be worth so little in months that I can afford to shove one of those ugly useless bricks off a mountainside

How can one "news" article repeat the same 25 words of information 30 times.
This article just keeps saying the same thing 30 different ways.

This isn't journalism, it's amateur hour.

Let's establish some undisputed facts here. 1) this vehicle is being sold at an incredible premium that is equivalent to the upper end of the Mercedes lineup. 2) luxury vehicles are notorious for rapid depreciation. 3) the cybertruck has a VERY public history of significant defects.

For my first point, my mom (may she rest in peace) taught me as a child that "you can tell me that thing is worth $100, but that doesn't mean it is. Something is only worth what people are willing to pay for it." people are WILLING to pay $100,000+ for this vehicle new so tesla charges as much as it can.

To my second point, luxury vehicles always deprecate faster than standard vehicles because of the difference between the buyers' attitudes. The average buyer of a corolla is looking to own that vehicle is looking for reliability, efficiency, and longevity. The average buyer of a Mercedes S550 is looking for a symbol of status and as many features that reflect that as possible. As someone who owned several classic Mercedes over his life I can tell you that those luxury functions are the first to break and they're expensive to replace/repair. The cybertruck's allegedly loaded with luxury options and those options will break and what's the point in paying $80,000 for a used luxury vehicle if those options are not functional. On top of that, the battery tech is still rapidly evolving. EV batteries from 5 years ago are not as good as the ones rolling off the line today. So why buy something with batteries that aren't as good as what's available now.

Finally, my last point. Tesla has had multiple SEVERE defects with the cybertruck and the market keeps forgiving them. The vehicles electronics bricking the entire vehicle days after purchase, the body panels falling off under basic road conditions, the snapping of steering/suspension pieces under standard operating stresses. If this happened to Toyota, that would be the end of the company. Toyota has built a reputation for its safety, reliability, and fuel economy and when they had a problem with a floor mat sliding around a little bit they had to do a world wide recall of their vehicles to address it AND their sealed dropped AND they were mocked. Yet, when tesla puts unsafe vehicles on the road everyone shrugs and hand waves it off.

I am supportive of competition in the marketplace. I think we need MORE auto manufacturers with a wider variety of ideas. That said, if a company can't put out a safe and *generally* reliable vehicle and is surviving off stock prices and fanboy hype, then it needs to close its doors. I apply that logic to ALL businesses. I love Toyota, but if they did what tesla is currently doing, then they deserve to fail.

I have no pity for the people trying to unload their cybertrucks thinking they're going to get any significant portion of their money back. They chose not to look at the warning signs and that is no one's fault but their own.

My heart goes out to all of the Tesla owners out there.