I've started to distrust Seeking Alpha on Tesla news. They're an investor-oriented site, so every article (no matter its position) feels like it's designed to move the market one way or another. They have both pro- and anti-Tesla contributors, but lately the biggest attention-getters have been the anti-Tesla contributors.<p>I'd prefer to see this published by actual journalists or some approximation thereof. Tesla has a lot of fans, yes, but they also have a LOT of enemies, and this is the sort of outlet I would imagine they would publish in.<p>Does anyone have a reputable source for this?<p>Also, regarding the content, most of these stipulations seem designed to tamp down speculation and scalping among reservation holders. I mean, that sounds like exactly what they SHOULD be doing. A very uncharitable interpretation of that is what makes me distrust the rest of the article.
I've wanted Tesla to succeed, but I find bullshit like this to be intolerable. Between this, and the impossibility of getting a dead-tree edition of the service manual, there's no way in hell I'm buying one. Cars with restrictive covenants? Give me a f*cking break.
"This gets really crazy when it comes to enforcement. Not only does Tesla threaten employees [who purchase a car and then resell it less than a year later, or resell it at a higher value than purchased] with disciplinary action up to and including termination, they threaten the future buyer!<p>...<p>So Tesla is actually threatening to "reduce or disable" a second buyer's purchased car!"