"I'm so super grateful": More than an hour after Rasetarinera's Monday interview with ABC7 News, she confirmed that Tesla had officially repaid the $2,000 that she was out for the purchase of the ingredients.
tl;dr After local news aired the story, Tesla has paid the pie shop $2,000, the cost of ingredients for the cancelled order.
What a cheap mother fucker Tesla and Elon are. Could have just paid for the pies and come out looking good. But instead nickel and dimes for just the ingredients. When you’re a billionaire. Fuck outta here.
Tbf, this time it didn't seem like Elon was behind this, probably some manager in the dealership. The article also said he commented they would pay her when he heard the news.
I am not defending Tesla's actions, but I don't think any sales were actually lost. After the press coverage, people started showing up en masse to buy from them.
Man, what a bunch of dickheads. Granted, the bakery are dummies in not waiting for the payment to clear, but still. Two grand means nothing to Tesla, so they should’ve paid regardless. The bad publicity costs them way more than that.
And they only did it because of bad press. Had this gone completely under the radar, I don't think they would have paid shit. This doesn't change my mind about them since it is so obviously just to try and save face.
Nah. 2k$ was a cheap PR face save for them. Pay 2k$ or deal for weeks and months with "remember how Tesla was a stingy bad corporate and cancelled a large order to a small business without compensation".
Noh they can go "Well yeah the cancellation wasn't exactly gracefully, but hey we compensated the business for it. Our bad."
Mind you even just paying the while 15k$ would have been small change for them. So I guess they are not utterly (business relations wise) horrible company, but still a cheap conglomerate.
They definitely need more strict and clear terms of service sorted out. But to think that this business has dealt with dozens of huge tech corporations like Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and many others before and this is the first time this has ever happened to them says a lot about Tesla's financial culture.