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This is not a price DROP. Tesla JACKED up prices on ALL models last year and people forgot about it and now TESLA just went back to the original prices. I been following them since 2016 and they have done this in 2018 with the MODEL S / X P100DL. Exact same shit happened with the first tax credit around 2017 with the release of the MODEL 3. I been scraping their inventory and you can plot the price changes and their used inventory prices are UPSIDE DOWN. Nothing new tesla normal behavior its just that a LOT of news outlets forget this that do not FOLLOW the price volatility. I am now thinking to do a youtube channel to lay it out. -2cents

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Really curious as to how you choose which words to capitalize and why.

I'm guilty of this so I'm interested in his answer. In my mind it wouldn't read correctly without it.

Say something. SAY something. say SOMETHING.

... this doesn't read well.

"and now TESLA just went back to the original prices". sounds like there are multiple people that went back to original prices but they are trying to point out that the discussion is about tesla. If this was spoken, the emphasis I would place would be on original, "and now tesla just went back to the ORIGINAL prices"

Intonation. He writes by thinking aloud (or in his head) how he says it. Usually we type simply by following grammar. But the way you read a sentence can imply different meanings or subtle emphasis what matters or "between the lines thingy". You can see TESLA being capitalize seems to hint he is a bit emotional whenever TESLA topic being brought up. As poster commented below, he should be capitalizing ORIGINAL given his observations of past price volatility. But instead, TESLA is consistently capitalized. I could be wrong if he intended to use the stock ticker name TSLA (perhaps the E is typo).

Yeah, I am not a strong writer. I just write how i think. I have ADHD + dyslexia and I can't follow grammar. :-( Im just trying to get it out of my head as fast as possible. Thank you.

guessing they didn't know how to make things italics

I think the price of a base model 3 went from 40k to 60k during covid. I don't understand why people are surprised it's going down now that the car shortage is coming to an end.

I bought a Model Y in 2020 and, during the peak of used car price inflation, I could have sold it used for a good bit more than I paid for it new.

Indeed if you hibernated in early 2021 and just woke up, the prices would look kind of same.

But the other side of the coin is also interesting. Up to six months ago, they couldn't make them fast enough when they were selling the cars for $15-20k more. Now the inventory is piling even with incentives and discounts.

"JACKUP up prices..."

Price fluctuation is standard with virtually every product ever made. Prices rise and fall based on market circumstances. One day cables might cost more, another day the price of aluminium might go down. Last year prices of every goods went up dramatically. Haven't you been to the grocery store?

This is great perspective. Would be awesome if you could share a spreadsheet. So often things are reported in terms of "up X%" or "down Y%", when a simple line chart would tell a more complete and understandable story.

Not the original prices, actually. They're back to where they were in mid-pandemic. And "JACKED" is a bit spun. It was the market for used Teslas that drove the price increases. They got way above the retail prices; people were actually scalping Teslas. Someone was going to make that money, it might as well be the manufacturer.

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