Tesla’s Shocking Deposit Scandal: Customers Lost $1 Million or More — The Heartbreaking Truth Revealed! Was It a Secret Betrayal, a Dark Conspiracy, or an Incredible Mistake? The Untold Story Behind Tesla’s Expensive Deposits Will Leave You Speechless and Outraged!

The $50,000 deposit for the Tesla Roadster could now be more than $1 million, if invested in the automaker’s stock.

Tesla has promised to launch a new Roadster model in 2020 but has not yet put it into production – Photo: Tesla

Marques Brownlee’s journey to recover the deposit from Tesla, better known as MKBHD on YouTube, has become a valuable lesson in patience.

It’s been 8 years since Tesla promised a second-generation Roadster. The car has yet to appear outside of renders, prototypes, and X pages.

In 2017, Tesla persuaded a lot of people to spend $5,000 to make a reservation, followed by a $45,000 deposit, with the promise that production would start in 2020. In total, customers ordered $50,000 (1.3 billion VND).

Until now, many people are still silently wondering how to cancel the Tesla Roadster order.

YouTuber MKBHD shared this in a recent podcast. After taking the required steps on the Tesla app to cancel the order, he only received a notification by phone and had to wait a long time to get in touch with the company’s employees.

MKBHD finally canceled the order for the $50,000 Roadster after eight years of waiting – Photo: MKBHD

Although the initial call only led to a voicemail, he eventually managed to connect with a person. This person admitted that he did not know how to cancel the application, but promised to solve it.

After a long struggle, Brownlee was only refunded the $45,000 deposit, and the 5,000 reservation fee did not go away.

But just a week after he told his story, Tesla refunded the money in full, presumably after realizing that its own website confirmed the $5,000 as “completely refundable.”

Those who pay for Roadster cars can earn 20 times more if they invest in Tesla stock – Photo: MKBHD

The money spent by Brownlee and others may have been used by Tesla to support the cost of developing the car as well as its other models. It’s also possible that the money was held in an account, accumulating interest over the past 8 years.

If Brownlee had invested his $50,000 in Tesla stock in 2017, when the stock price was only about $22 per share, instead of putting down a deposit on a model that he didn’t know when it was produced, he could have owned more than $1 million today when the stock price was $454 on October 1!

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