Hours spent trying to get someone to buy a car they have no intention of buying are hours NOT spent making sales commissions.

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    14 hours ago

    Unfortunately they don’t have traditional salespeople. They don’t make commission and probably wouldn’t mind talking to someone.

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    I could eat some pepperoni pizza and garlic bread. That will piss off my stomach something fierce. I can walk around the showroom crop dusting. It will clear out that dealership, I promise.

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      I’ll not take some devrom for a few days and respectfully use their facilities. They might have to burn down the building to get the smell out.

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      I think the Geneva Convention says something about chemical warfare. Sounds like you’re flirting with danger there. See if you can get a note on medical letterhead confirming your diagnosis with Crohn’s Disease so you can bring it out and threaten medical discrimination.

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    Tesla doesn’t have traditional sales staff. They’re more like showroom managers. All you’d be doing is giving them foot traffic that makes them more attractive to passerbys.

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        Which is also a waste of time. Protesting in front of a car dealership is just dumb.

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          It’s a great idea actually. People buy vehicles for reasons other than practicality. No one is buying a cybertruck because they’re looking for a practical vehicle. It’s all vibes. If people see Tesla dealerships being picketed, they know that there will be a lot of people who judge them harshly for buying a Tesla. And aside from some right wing asshats, no one really wants that kind of heat on them just for buying a damn car. People buy expensive cars because they want to be seen as cool. Protests serve to make Teslas as uncool as possible.

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    Not sure about this.

    Unless you’re diverting resources from a sale, only when every single salesperson on the floor would otherwise be engaged with a customer, you’re not really wasting anyone’s time but your own. In fact, you may be honing their skills.

    An empty sales flooris a statement of its self.

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    I think this may have the opposite intended effect. Tesla would report that interest in their product is still strong or even going up. That might make stock prices go up.

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      But if they internally report interest is up, but sales do not reflect it, then investors think they are cooking books somewhere and the valuation goes down due to lack of trust.

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        Bold of you to assume they aren’t already cooking the books. Though, I imagine they use some plausible deniability and have some bullshit AI cook the books for them.

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    I doubt the vast majority of people could actually string a car salesman along for more than a few minutes without feeling awkward and cringey.

    Going to a dealership, looking at a car, talking to a sales guy, doing a test drive… you’re really only there for 45 minutes until it’s time to sign the offer or leave.

    Also, sales guy is going to be reluctant to spend much time with you or take you for a drive if you don’t really look like a tesla kind of person (wealthy).

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      Also, sales guy is going to be reluctant to spend much time with you or take you for a drive if you don’t really look like a tesla kind of person (wealthy).

      I’m with you till the end, but teslas are like 40k at the low end, and most rich tech bros look homeless anyway.

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        Sure ok, maybe the term “wealthy” was a poor choice.

        Salespeople spend all day reading people. I’m confident they could identify a shabby looking tech bro ready to spend $40k from a leftie trying to waste their time.

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          You might be surprised at how well some of us leftie techies can code switch.

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    Tesla used to famously not have commissioned sales. It’s one of the reasons the buying process was so much better than a dealership honestly, no pressure to buy, and they had absolutely no control of the pricing or need to inflate a sale.

    At one point they received general bonuses based on overall deliveries, but not on a per-vehicle basis that they interacted with.

    Before I bought my Model 3, the “sales” person literally just took me on a test drive, then showed me the standard Tesla.com website to configure what I was looking for. And based on my experience in retail sales myself at the time, they clearly were there to advise and had no ball in the court when it came to whether I bought it through them, or even if I bought one at all.

    Not sure if that changed in the last 5 years or so, but I doubt it switched to that type of system since that would mean Tesla having to implement an entire process to handle commissioned sales when they clearly would prefer people just buy them online.

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      Except the ones sold to boomers who don’t know how the internet works but heard there’s these fancy new cars they can buy to own the libs

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      Not everyone has the courage to fire bomb a dealership, and a death by a thousand cuts is still a death. If the only thing you are comfortable doing in protest is gumming up the works a bit, so be it.

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    This would require spending an extended period of time speaking with a Tesla salesperson. I’d probably rather just die.

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    Is there anything in the showrooms worth taking that aren’t bolted down or having a tracking device built in? lol

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      Pens! I guess. Probably also have free coffee/tea/hot chocolate so fill up on that. Cookies?

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    Doug Stanhope has a great bit from his special

    Bier Hall Putsch.

    He’s a great crass alcoholic comedian. You know he’s great in that he’s both cancelable and not really on the joe Rogan radar.

    Another recent fun bit so you kinda get who he is if you’re unfamiliar.

    Fox news picked him up as maybe some ally. Yeah. No.

    And if you’re smitten, well Idngive you the gold but it’s off YouTube.

    It’s been scrubbed from the internet but if you put in your pirate cap, find ‘before turning the gun on hinself’, because the last 20-30 minutes is masterful.