Elon Musk to Tesla Cybertruck buyers: No take-backs. It's a lemon

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Elon Musk to Tesla Cybertruck buyers: No take-backs. It’s a lemon

Updated: Apr. 02, 2025, 3:17 p.m. | Published: Apr. 02, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

By Lauren Sforza | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Elon Musk’s Tesla woes are continuing to pile up.

Tesla has faced a number of issues since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, including plummeting stock prices, fewer deliveries of its electric vehicles and mass protests against Musk at its dealerships. Many Americans are protesting Musk and his efforts to slash federal government spending as a part of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Now, some Cybertruck owners are reporting that Tesla will not accept its own vehicle as a trade-in, according to electric vehicle website Electrek.

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[Henry203]

1. SUCKER

The owners were born yesterday.

[sakabatou]

2. How is this not fraud? Like a snake oil salesman?

[newdeal2]

5. When you're the richest man in the world, they let you do it.

He’s dismantling all consumer protections, watchdogs and regulators for a reason.

[Disaffected]

8. There's no law that a dealership

has to accept anything as a trade-in, even its own model(s).

[EdmondDantes_]

10. For a while there was a term in your purchase that said you had to

At least for the first year of ownership sell it back to Tesla. I guess supply outpaced demand

[Voltaire2]

33. Early on Tesla guaranteed the resale value of model S cars.

I had a friend who sold his back to tesla for the guaranteed price.

[sakabatou]

15. True.

I'm trying to interpret what Musk is saying. Is he admitting that his company is selling lemons, or that all used Teslas become lemons?

[BOSSHOG]

3. Musk really does have conservative values

[BoRaGard]

4. "Ha ha, suckers and losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P. Chainsaw Chump (R-dipshit)

[Hope22]

6. Didn't TSF order several million dollars worth

Of those trucks. Did we buy trucks that we won’t receive or get use out of. Hmmmm….

[eppur_se_muova]

9. If by "several" you mean "400", yes. (order now cancelled)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220025604

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100220066346

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143413269

[Hope22]

11. Missed that news. Thanks!

Where that guy is concerned my brain gets overwhelmed!😊

[progressoid]

7. I parked next to one of those Nazimobiles a few days ago.

I don't drive anything fancy. But next to that heap of metal, my car looked like a queen.

[mwb970]

13. There's one I see driving around NW Columbus.

It is the ugliest motor vehicle I have ever seen. It looks like a Fascist fantasy made out of a garbage dumpster. Yuck.

[progressoid]

21. I saw one in Omaha NE that was painted Nebraska Husker red.

I imagine he thinks it's the coolest thing on wheels. I thought it just looked ludicrous.

[yardwork]

23. They really do look like dumpsters.

I parked next to one a month or so ago and it felt just like squeezing into the spot next to the dumpster.

I hear they rust, too.

[AllaN01Bear]

26. they look so ugly. hem. snork.

[mwb970]

12. Elon is on the same trajectory as Rudy.

He was successful and respected. Then he hooked up with trump and everything in his life immediately turned to crap.

trump, of course, was unaffected and continues in his evil ways with no consequences. Who's next?

[niyad]

17. ghouliani has been scum for a very long time. .I despised him from the

minute I heard about the way he treated wife #2.

[yardwork]

24. Musk has always been scum.

Read about how his first marriage ended. The guy has been a mean con artist from day one. Raised by literal Nazis, overstayed his student visa in the U.S., lied about his resume (he doesn't have the degrees he claims to have. No engineering degree. No advanced degrees. He might have an undergraduate degree in Econ, maybe), stole other peoples' ideas, consistently ignores design flaws in his products, runs his businesses like concentration camps, abuses drugs, abuses women, is estranged from his grown kids.... he's just like Trump. A complete fraud.

[exboyfil]

27. Just like the pillow guy

Who as photographed with an insurrection plan in his pocket.

[Wiz Imp]

14. Way to go Musk! Effectively admitting the Cybertruck is a piece of garbage

So what if you screw over your customers (who spent $80,000 on the monstrosity) in the process.

[AZ8theist]

18. Try $100K. Now not even worth $80K if you could even sell it......

[Wiz Imp]

19. Wow! I didn't know what they cost, but I thought I had heard $80,000 before.

I just checked and the most basic one apparently started at around $80,000 and the top line version is $120,000.

I can't understand why anyone would ever buy one period. It's the ugliest vehicle I've ever seen. Add in all the issues that have been discovered with them and they have to be a candidate for the biggest failure in automotive history.

[AZ8theist]

22. Hopefully the Deplorean failure gets Eloon the hell out of government.

But not a single shit is given for anybody would bought that piece of crap....

[calimary]

16. Hey, drive it into some abandoned lot, and fill it with birdseed!

The birds will do a very creative (AND textural) remodel!

Even better if some four-leggeds start homesteading!

[Meowmee]

20. I will take it back for $2 and then hopefully sell it for a lot more to a maga

[Mountainguy]

25. Any moron that bought one

Deserves the ripoff they are getting.


If Musk was half as smart as he thinks he is, he'd have kept his goofy ass out of politics and funded a back to the future reboot using the cyber truck instead of the DeLorean, and used that to market it.

[DinahMoeHum]

28. From "American Graffiti":

Hey Cybertruck owners:

[Klarkashton]

29. Nobody has ever come away from a trump involvement in one piece. Nobody.

[exboyfil]

30. My SIL wanted one

Guess he can get one now for a steep reduction. Of course he traded up to a larger Tesla sedan before the election.

He is a great husband and father, but we do have a point of disagreement that neither bring up. At least he doesn't vote. My wife, daughters, and me all reliably vote for Democrats (it doesn't make much of difference in Iowa).

[prodigitalson]

31. I assume that ugly thing was his attempt to sell vehicles to MAGAs as he pissed off his customer base

of people concerned about climate change.

This will probably be studied in future marketing classes as how not to conduct yourself in the market.

[Xavier Breath]

32. Turns out Eloon's word is just as unbreakable as the cybertruck's windows.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory

No trade ins.
https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3llseisufv22y

Link to tweet

https://electrek.co/2025/04/01/tesla-is-sitting-on-200-million-worth-of-cybertruck-inventory/

Tesla has about $200 million worth of Cybertrucks in inventory in the US, as the truck is extremely difficult to sell.

A year and a half into production, Cybertruck production has ramped up, and inventory is building up.

Last year, Tesla could blame low Cybertruck deliveries on the production ramp, the more expensive Foundation Series, and the lack of access to the $7,500 tax credit.

All of those excuses are not available to Tesla this year. The Cybertruck is simply proving challenging to sell, and the automaker has to throttle down production to avoid building up too much inventory.