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Idk why people are so on board with getting rid of the things. It's just virtue signaling.
If you're leasing then it's one thing to break the lease but if you've purchased it the fucker already has your money. Your actions can no longer hurt his company (except by denying data collection which is only resolved with destruction)
Just slap an "I didn't know better and regret this thing" bumper sticker on it. It's more honest virtue signaling than selling it because you made a mistake. Then just switch cars when it makes sense and don't buy another naziwagon.
E: i was thinking you might get lucky with some charitable acts of vandalism but then recalled that insurers are allegedly denying some claims on teslas, at least cybertrucks.
Flooding the market with used Teslas would hurt the business though, wouldn't it?
Yep because it drops the resale price, the cheaper the used ones are the more it eats into their new sale margins. If you could get the resale price down to id say they $5000 range you'd probably see folks buying them with the express purpose of fucking with them, which may further damage their reputation since rather than it being a prestige car it'd be the "I wanted to labatomize and modify an electric vehicle" car.
No. Traditionally you just stockpile and artificially generate scarcity in the market until the demand rises again.
Sure, but that only really works when you have something to offer that others don't. Fact of the matter is Tesla is fucked one way or the other, the traditional car companies are making electric vehicles now, that means any market shrinkage Tesla faces is libel to be filled by their competitors. Combine that with the fact that the market has turned outright hostile and well ya have what we see now.
That's not even getting into the fact that their stock is falling and the fact they have have to deal with the millstone around their neck called the cyber truck.