Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units

quicklywilliam•3 days ago

The real question is who bought the other 5,742 of them

straydusk•3 days ago

I'm telling you, every time I see someone driving one it's the biggest dweeb alive

bmitc•3 days ago

How is this deemed not a conflict of interest? SpaceX is almost totally funded by the government. You can't use government funds to buy your own products.

throwa356262•3 days ago

You must be new here

ulfw•3 days ago

Well, clearly you can.

thelastgallon•3 days ago

YouTube influencers who are showing off how successful they are and everyone should buy their courses to copy their success. Exhibit A for success: Cybertruck in background.

bmitc•3 days ago

It's kind of weird. I haven't met a single person in real life that doesn't basically giggle out of embarrassment for the driver when a Cybertruck goes by. No one I know thinks they're cool in the slightest, and they're openly laughed at. It's bizarre that anyone thinks they're cool.

ls612•3 days ago

At least 5-10 people in the apartment I live in, plus more on the streets of Nashville.

jazz9k•4 days ago

This also happens in the Startup community....

nickff•4 days ago

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.

ChrisArchitect•3 days ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799420

hnburnsy•4 days ago

Currently no in stock new or used and a two month delivery estimate.

vel0city•3 days ago

> 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.

jgbuddy•4 days ago

What would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they were purchased at all?

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

browningstreet•4 days ago

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.

nitwit005•4 days ago

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.

qq66•3 days ago

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

solarkraft•3 days ago

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

The most obvious motive is juicing the numbers.

aucisson_masque•3 days ago

> 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.

benj111•4 days ago

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

Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units

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