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Elon Musk to the People of New Jersey

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @11:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-law-versus-commonsense dept.

c0lo writes:

"Following the ban on Tesla direct sale in New Jersey, Elon Musk wrote a message to the people of New Jersey on the Tesla Motor's blog, explaining why they don't want to go through dealers and what will happen next with the stores in New Jersey. To put a context around the issue: Tesla soared in consumer satisfaction, while Ford dropped and it's likely to continue dropping.

The post:

  1. explains why Tesla don't want to sell through dealers, claiming a conflict of interest between selling and servicing gasoline and electric cars.
  2. explains what will happen with their presence in New Jersey; the stores will be transformed into showrooms, with no info on price being offered, and servicing will not be impacted by the new regulation.
  3. tells people what they can do - buy online and receive the car delivered interstate or buy from across the river in Manhattan; They can also contact their representatives if they want back the right to buy directly from a store."
 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 17 2014, @03:04PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday March 17 2014, @03:04PM (#17629)

    Did you reply to the wrong post? GP did not mention anything about the old site, nor was his criticism non-constructive. (destructive?) He stated "Headlines are usually supposed to give you some idea of what the story is about." I agree.

    What is the issue with pointing out something you do not like?

    Besides, the headline does pull you in.

    Yeah, I take exception to that, big time. Sensationalist and inflammatory headlines pull people in as well, but I think I speak for every contributor to SN when I say that we do not want that bullshit here. Concise, informative and neutral headlines are the best.

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  • (Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Monday March 17 2014, @03:20PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Monday March 17 2014, @03:20PM (#17643)

    No, I did not. The OP makes reference to /. right in the subject line as in ...as Slashdot's. His criticism, not not quite destructive, gave little other then a slightly humorous jab. That was my point. So he points out something he does not like, but gives little back. I point out something I didn't like, but tried to give more understanding. I found his jab witty, but I had hoped he'd talk about the subject a bit. I admitted I was going off topic.

    "Headlines are usually supposed to give you some idea of what the story is about." in so many words. "Musk talks to New Jersey?" "Eloy pitches Ideas" "Owner of Tesla suggests New Jer". You only have so many letters and the headline combined elements from the article. Maybe not the best, but not that bad. Sensational? How? Where? Inflammatory? Not even close. Other the Lummox's fau paux the other day I can't really say SN has been that bad compared to /., given that this place is new, editors are new, approach is new. Then, I don't try to figure out the whole submission from just a few words on the front page.

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