My wife and I were in the market for an EV and checked out a Mach-E at the dealership down the street. Horrible experience with the sales team and they were charging 10k over MSRP.<p>Went home and bought a Tesla Model Y online. Absolutely love it and happy to not have dealt with that dealership.
Dealerships are the epitome of rent-seeking middlemen. There might have been a time that they provided some usefulness in terms of informing people about the cars they sell, but now with information everywhere you don't need a salesperson to tell you these things anymore. What usefulness do they now provide besides making vehicles more expensive?
I think an overlooked part of teslas very high valuation is that it seems inevitable that legacy, stagnant and mostly incompetent companies like Ford and GM will fold (and would have long since if they didn't keep getting propped up by the feds).