![]() ![]() ![]() A reasonably-spec’d out Model Y can be gone in literal seconds. He says the time varies from when his tracker posts a link to the link going dead depending on the car. Copycats have sprung up since, including a Twitter account for basic alerts with about 1,600 followers and a Facebook group Alcox says copy-pastes alerts from his Discord server which he says is “very obvious based on how my tool styles the notifications.”Īlcox can tell how quickly a car gets sold because the link will no longer work. ![]() The tool runs in a Discord server which also has a community to discuss other aspects of EV ownership. On August 15, he had a Tesla in his driveway, just two weeks after he had placed his order online, thanks to finding an “existing inventory” Tesla elsewhere and shipping it to Kansas City for about $500.Īfter making the tool more accurate and user-friendly-and giving it a semi-permanent home inside a Docker container on a Raspberry Pi in his living room-Alcox decided to share it on various Tesla forums. So Alcox made a tool to alert him the instant one got listed for sale.īy the second week of August, Alcox built himself such a tool similar to other Discord communities and bots for notifying and automatically buying sneakers, Playstations, GPUs, and other hard to find items. But they can be tricky to find or require a lot of page-refreshing. “The idea with existing inventory, is you just skip the entire wait,” Alcox said. That’s where Alcox’s idea comes in.įor cars that don’t have a customer waiting for them-be it no preorder customer exactly matches its specifications, the customer rejected the delivery for any number of reasons that have nothing to with the car, or a showroom model is being put up for sale-Tesla lists them on the website as “existing inventory.” The price is the same as a brand new Tesla listed at that given time, although if the car is based somewhere far away it will cost a little extra to either ship it or pick it up. But there are still some number of cars that, like hamburgers sitting under the heating lights, don’t have a matching buyer. The key difference between fast food restaurants and Tesla for our purposes here is that restaurants throw out food they don’t sell, whereas Tesla sells everything it makes. Instead, Tesla operates more like a fast food restaurant-of course, fast-food restaurants modeled their operations on Fordian-style mass production-where the cooks in the back make a certain number of hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, and french fry orders per hour in response to projected customer demand, aiming to align what comes out of the mass production system with customer demand as closely as they can. Tesla does not manufacture cars like a sit-down restaurant, where customers place an order, the order goes to the kitchen, and the chefs prepare a dish to fulfill that specific order to its specifications. To understand how he did it, it’s important to recognize that car manufacturing is not intended for a preorder system where customers have lots of options and variations to choose from. ![]() Essentially, he figured out a way to skip the line by building a tool that would immediately notify him when a Tesla became available for purchase. He knew something most Tesla customers don’t, and he had the programming skills to take advantage of it. Most people wait patiently for their deliveries. ![]()
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