Tesla Model 3 and Model Y Waiting Room and Delivery Queries (No referral links)

There were about 80 cars in March, all with similar discounts (if not identical) to what you see today, most of them gone within the first 30 min after showing up. I had a discounted one also a few weeks ago (the one with the tow hitch that ended up not being eligible for the grant). They were telling me that after the whole circus in March they have better systems in place and shouldn't make such mistake again. So I don't know... I for one just collected my car today, decided not worth the risk of ending up with no car and a reduced grant by the end of June.

Yes, I had bagged a Blue LR M Y with a towbar for €51042, showroom discount was -€5640. They had more discount but they had additional spec that buyers didn’t necessarily want. I didn’t want the towbar but would have liked a LR in Blue for that price. The way the cancellations were handled was the worst part.

Exact same situation. The difficult bit will be verifying if the discount will be honoured. There is almost nothing a Tesla employee can say which would make me believe the discount will be honoured. There will need to be a leap of faith at some point.

There’s examples in this thread of people having Tesla employees confirm prices and asking for payment the night before delivery only for cancellation to occur the morning of.

The Ireland delivery team are the only people who have a clue what’s going on, but it’s very difficult to get hold of them.

Was there a walking map from the Citywest bust stop to the Tesla collection somewhere ? (How the hell do you search a thread any more ???)

I wonder for any of you got the SEAI grant form when you managed to pick up a discounted tesla in the fire sale in March??

I have order 1 to collect next tuesday but can't resist the temptation of the discount and put 2nd order on the discounted ones yesterday..

I haven't got the SEAI grant form to order 2, wonder if that would be a sign that those dicounts are legit at least?

Not a lot of people will want to hear this but honestly, and you all know this is true, all the people ordering 2 and 3 cars are the reason Tesla are struggling to deal with orders and delivery times. You’re the reason “fire sales” come up, the reason cars get dumped in to inventory at a reduced price and at an earlier than expected delivery date. You’re the exact same people who moan. YOU’RE THE PROBLEM! It’s obvious if you read over all the posts on this form. If this gets your goat up it because the truth is never easy to hear.

I am transferring from existing order to new order.

I got email confirmation from Tesla IE saying transfer request of funds from one car to another has been initiated.

I agree with you to some degree, I have seen posts where people have ordered multiple cars, why do people do this? If you have no intention of buying multiple cars, just order one!!

Why do Tesla let people do this?

I am part of the problem now as I have cancelled my original order to hopefully pick up a discounted car. I am trying to protect my investment, by picking up a car for a discount of 3k. If it works out great, if not I am done!

In the scenario above we are all culpable, but it starts with the individuals ordering multiple cars with the intention of only picking one or even none!!

They said original order will be cancelled when transfer of funds is completed. I asked them not to do this. Agent ended chat before clarifying if original order will be cancelled.

I plan on clarifying with Tesla IE tomorrow, I will report back.

You may be right in reality, but this was not the reason Tesla cited at the time. It is however the reason they have cited for more recent cancellations.

Fire sale cancellation email did not even mention the SEAI grant. Was due to ‘showroom adjustments’ being applied to cars not in the showroom.

I thought it was nonsense at the time but it is the reason they used. It would be some weird business model though if they cancel all these car, move them to showroom late June when they arrive in Dublin, discount them again, then scramble to sell. But it’s Tesla after all, so things rarely make much sense.

fire sale email extract.

“We are writing to notify you of a recent pricing error on the Tesla website advertising a number of which was subject to an undue price adjustment. These vehicles were advertised in error as showroom and ex-demonstrator vehicles when in fact they were new vehicles that have not arrived in the Republic of Ireland.”

Not sure you can lay all of the blame on the customers that place multlple orders to buy 1 car. Tesla have a really crap system where they randomly build cars, put them on ships and try to match them to customer orders. It’s a system that works for Apple building iPhones, I’m not sure it’s as successful when it comes to cars. Tesla in Ireland is a bit like a startup, not quite there yet. Being ran from the UK where they don’t seemed to have grasped the vagaries of the Irish market of SEAI Grants, VRT etc. Obviously cancelled orders creates mayhem but a €250 refundable deposit is enabling such mayhem. €250 is a very small deposit on a €50K purchase even if it wasn’t refundable.

This is not accurate at all, Tesla doing discounts got nothing to do with people ordering multiple cars .. it is increasing inventory issue that Tesla faces for the last 9 months globally and they keep doing end of quarter sale in almost every country to get rid of the extra stock .. Ireland was different since we didnt have stock till this one.

Sorry - I dont understand why we think Tesla are going to cancel todays discounted cars.

They were under grant threshold before discount and seem to be new cars - not demos or ex display based on milage quoted - i.e 12km same as any new car advertised.

What am I missing?

I’m still on the fence, but three reasons

1. Main one - a poster on here was advised that Sandyford staff are saying discounts will not be honoured. This was precisely how firesale news was discovered. I don’t know why Sandyford staff would go around saying cars will be cancelled if they had no information on this. The default position is always ‘order is grand’…until it isn’t.
2. The firesale was cancelled last time precisely because the cars were not showroom cars. If you hover over the discount it says ‘showroom adjustment’. Tesla advised at the time that showroom adjustments cannot be applied to new cars in transit, which these cars are.
3. Its Tesla.