Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units

> two month delivery estimate.

Their website for my zip said two weeks.

Which seems like a long while, seeing as how their big "can't-call-it-a-dealsership" nearby has like 20-30 sitting on the lot for a while. I imagine they'd make their two week estimate early.

There's about 30 or so listed used online around me.

It is very popular in many industries; when it is accomplished by convincing re-sellers to take in more stock than they desire, it is called 'stuffing the channel'. Book publishers are famous for doing this to achieve 'best-seller' status.

Elon keeps doing things that make no sense from a business perspective and he’s defended by people who exclaim it couldn’t have happened like that because it makes no sense from a business perspective.

The general behavior of doing things that don't particularly make sense from a business perspective, to make numbers look better, is unfortunately common. People exploit it by doing things like trying to get a discount near end of quarter.

It makes no sense? When the companies have the same CEO?

“This makes no sense” => “I don’t understand the purpose”

The most obvious motive is juicing the numbers.

> The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective

I think you missed the part where Tesla is overevaluated and any bad news could utterly crush it's share value.

Except when the CEO of publicly owned Tesla gets paid based on performance.