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| ▲ | robrain 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1] [1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in... EDIT: grammar | | |
| ▲ | parineum 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale. | | |
| ▲ | hananova 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy. Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number. | | |
| ▲ | dmarcos 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Your claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it? | | |
| ▲ | sigmarule 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | I believe the claim is that the demand side did not change, the supply side did, as in sales != demand. | | |
| ▲ | dmarcos 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just quoting the above “An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy” So people spent 60k on a cybertruck that they didn’t want? Is that the claim? | | |
| ▲ | pas 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | the claim is that it moved sales forward in time, but it'll have a corresponding dip in sales later, whereas a good sales campaign increases total volume (virtually no dip, brings in new customers, etc) |
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| ▲ | parineum 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy. People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them. Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't. | | |
| ▲ | sillyfluke an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | literally almost everything I have bought on sale is something I wasn't looking to buy at that moment in time. | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't. That is exactly what sales do. most sales are made sellings things to people they don’t want, until sales does what sales does | | |
| ▲ | dmarcos 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | So people spent 60k on a cybertruck they don’t want? Do you believe that? | | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | look around your house and see how much shit you got that you really want(ed). great salesman (and elon is the best in the history of the civilization) will sell you shit you never thought you wanted :) | | |
| ▲ | dmarcos 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | The motivation to buy something is always because you want it. That a product doesn’t meet your needs or expectations later is a different story. What’s your evidence to claim that people spending 60k in a cybertruck don’t want it? What’s your evidence to make a similar claim or the opposite for any other purchase? Without evidence it feels you are making baseless claims about peoples motivations. |
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| ▲ | RobRivera 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [X] doubt |
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| ▲ | NewJazz 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Look up what their production targets were and compare that to their sales. A small temporary demand surge isn't going to be enough to chew through their current inventory, let alone keep the production lines busy. | |
| ▲ | MPSimmons 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A push on delivery dates is as likely to mean production issues as it is an influx of interest. |
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