It’s Impossible to Get Rid of a Tesla Cybertruck. I Want to Cut My Losses and Move On, but I Can't Give This Thing Away. I’ve Lost So Much Money Already; Help.

"I can't give this thing away." - Guy who is asking $89,000 for a used vehicle that now sells new for $72,500.

Don't buy vehicles from a company led by an unstable Nazi CEO, dipshit.

Also, “give away” typically means $0. $89000 is to the best of my knowledge larger than $0. I’ll bet he could give it away, but he doesn’t want to do that.
- "giving it away" can also mean selling it cheap.
  Edit: damn I'm not defending this price, just explaining the metaphorical phrase. Chill yall
- So there's this thing called exaggeration...

from the tardygrade's perspective is it playing a large violin or a normal-sized cello?
- Size-wise, relative to him, it's much closer to a violin than a cello, maybe slightly larger. So a viola would be the best fit. I think the picture is of a cello though, just sized strangely.
  Edit: that image is strange. It's really popular, but bad. He's playing the strings from the wrong side of the bridge. How do you get that wrong?
- Closest would be a viola
- It has to be a normal-sized cello, a violin would have toe be the other way around.

"can't give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks."

A brand new AWD CT from Tesla is $79,990.

Headline is clickbait. Seller is a whinger. Trash all round. Saved you a click.

Sorry to ask, but what is a "whinger"?
- Whiner. Whinging is a synonym
- I believe it means "whiner". As in one who whines and complains.
  I don't know where @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net hails, but I just know this because I am a dad, which means I watch Bluey, and sometimes the dad on Bluey will tell the kids to "quit whinging".
- Whinging and whining - though not exactly identical in meaning - are pretty much the same word to all intents and purposes in casual language.
- @Zementid @CurlyWurlies4All Australian here. Whinging is complaining or whining
- Pronounced like Hinge
That's the thing. He's trying to sell his used truck for more than the cost of a brand new one with the same configuration, if I read it correctly.
The guy fucked up buying this trash at a higher price early on, and now he's just an asshole trying to rip other people off.

Between price drops and the cybertruck recently qualifying for the federal EV tax credit, buyers can get a brand new unit for what this guy is asking. This early adopter paid too much and got a bad deal, but there's no mystery as to why no one wants to buy at his asking price.

If he’d literally give it away, I’d accept it.
- I would too, and I'd resell it immediately because I don't want to be seen dead in a Musk automobile.

Sledder also shares that over his lifetime, - he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.

Oh, I'm so sorry sir, it's frightfully unfair that this particular transaction has not worked out as favorablly as you're used to. Would you care for a sparkling beverage while Life figures out how to make itself better for you?

No one will buy a used car for more than they can get a new one. Who knew?

you can buy a brand-new Cybertruck straight from the manufacturer cheaper than Sledder is asking to sell his used truck.

Wow I wonder why there's no takers

Also Sledder 'no low ball offers, I know what I git'
The paint job is totally worth the extra 19k you guyse!!!!
The article says there's a madman offering 50k cash for it. Poor soul.
- Actually 50k sounds a lot closer to reasonable for a somewhat used car that currently sells new for 80k'ish. Of course, I'm saying that in the hypothetical generic car vacuum, not the actual "electric dumpster" reality.

“I've owned it for 8 months. It is depreciating like a rock. I have already lost over $20k in 8 months. I want to cut my losses and move on, but I can't give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”

This right here sums up the unrealistic expectations of the average Tesla owner. Cars immediately depreciate the moment you drive them off the lot, no car is immune to this. The average new car loses 10% in the first month after buying it. It loses over 20% in the first year. For those who are playing along this track's with exactly how much this doofus has "lost" on his truck.

The average new car loses 10% in the first month after buying it. It loses over 20% in the first year.
The theory behind this is that you'd only be selling a slightly used car if it was a lemon. The exception to the rule is resellers who already have a buyer lined up when they take possession of the vehicle.
But because Musk-o-philes are all Bitcoin brained and cannot conceive of prices ever going down, they're routinely shocked to discover that cars are for driving and not for speculating.
- Anything's for speculating if you're dumb enough.
Though I'd say this one takes it to a whole new level because of a few extra factors:
Pre-orders were priced for exclusivity. Iirc, Tesla was having a lot of production/inventory issues when the pre-orders were collected. I'm not sure how much the deposits were, but they'd have added some sunk cost to the situation, making it harder to walk away when it might have been clear that they would be a shitshow. No one has a deposit on anyone's used cyber truck to add incentive to pay the rest.
Elon's reputation hadn't sunk so low when pre-orders were made. Iirc, it was after the whole submarine/pedophile thing, but it seems that many didn't see the writing on the wall from that event.
They turned out to be pretty bad. Other Teslas have and had issues but the cyber truck has had some particularly embarrassing ones for a truck. Like not handling rain or sand well.
It looks so unique that it doesn't really fly under the radar. The two other very hated vehicles I can think of off-hand, the PT Cruiser and the Aztec, were ugly but still looked similar enough to other vehicles that many people didn't know what they were or that they were so unpopular. People could buy one before they realized, and it was easier to not care what others thought. The cyber truck looks like a 90s video game truck in a time when memes reach many more people, to the point where openly laughing at cyber trucks you see in RL might be a meme.
Cars and trucks are expensive in general, but this one is on another level. While I might be behind on inflation, the price is comparable to a mid/low-end Porsche (~80k for a boxter, ~120k for a 911 is my benchmark, though it's old but it's also CAD, so maybe it works today for USD). A) why would someone want that more than a Porsche? B) most people can't afford a Porsche.
Not to mention the people Elon is pandering to these days either have trouble affording his vehicles without a dealer trying to convince a bank to take the loan, or can easily afford it but have money in part because they don't spend it on stupid shit like a cyber truck.
All of that on top of the usual depreciation.
- Not to mention the stainless steel it's made of is not even the type that resists rusting. Did you see the state of the Cyber truck that MKBHD sold? It look like a fucking derelict prop from a post-apocalyptic movie set.
Dumb people do dumb things. News at 11.
Also funny that he talks about the price depreciation, while complaining about not being able to sell it. How do you want to sell a buyer on "this will depreciate quickly in price, but please pay a price notably above current market prices"
You're right.
Top Gear did a piece about the Aston Martin Vantage. New, £170,000 (GBP). 20,000 miles later it was worth £80,000. 90k depreciation in less than a year.
Tesla's have the absolute worst resale value compared to ICE, PHEV or Hybrids. Batteries degrade over time and with increased usage, so by the time you try to sell a Tesla that's a few years old, a lot of the advertised maximum capacity has escaped from that battery and the cost of a replacement likely exceeds the value of the entire used car.
Two of my coworkers got fantastic deals on used Tesla's because they go for so cheap on the secondary market and California is awash in them so there's always someone somewhere trying to get rid of theirs and usually for less that what it would normally blue book for.

Off topic: it looks waaaaay better in black. 😳

You can paint a turd gold too.
- Like Jerry rig everything did
Honestly yeah. Almost batmobileisc
- That's what the guy who blew up his cybertruck said. Made him feel like Batman.
That's because you see less of it :)
A lot of ugly cars look better in black, the Chevrolet Uplander for example
- I too look better in black. Does this mean I am an ugly car?
Unless you see it from behind. Then the dumbass thing just looks like a black refrigerator
- @TrickDacy @Dungrad Isn't that an improvement over a dumpster?
Looks like Crocks with wheels. 😂
- Yes. I never said I like it. It just is insanely better than the normal light grey one.

...he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.

Not saying the Cybertruck is a good thing, personally IDGAF about it, but calling this guy merely "a cybertruck owner" is bullshit. He's a guy who makes money buying and selling expensive vehicles, and he's whining about a deal that hasn't worked out for him. Poor baby.

The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000.

The same dual-motor Cybertruck AWD variant now starts at $80,000. However, starting in 2025, the vehicle qualifies for the $7,500 point of sale tax credit. This further lowers the starting price to $72,500.

Tesla is also now offering a $2,000 discount to anyone who applies a referral code when buying the vehicle. That further lowers the starting price to $70,500.

LOLOL.

Everyone expects top dollar for used shit these days.

This fucking article goes on 3 more paragraphs after that about how great the current offerings from Tesla are. Feels like the whole thing is just a Cybertruck sales puff piece in disguise.
- Guy can’t sell his because the new ones are just SO GOOD 🤡

My first thought was "Really? Even a chop shop style place won't take it?" And reading it is like "Oh he doesn't want to cut the price so much but might now" so yeah.

"I can't give this thing away."

FTA: He's not trying to give it away. He's expecting last year's used market value for it, but it's steadily depreciating. Someone offered him 50k for it. He overpaid for a new car.

Pretty much, guy's just being a Karen. "Broken TV from the 60's, 500 dollars. Don't low ball me, I know what I have."

From the article:

The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000. He thinks this is a fair price [...] if you added every optional extra that Tesla currently offers for the Cybertruck, given the $7,500 tax credit and the $2000 referral discount, (a brand new 2025) Cybertruck will still only cost around $86,000.

Nobody with a brain would pay more for a used vehicle. It's not a collectible. "Founder's edition" nowadays means "beta version" and it's not something that's worth more.

idiot wants brand new value for his used vehicle. i hate these things, but this doesnt match reality on non-tesla vehicles let a lone one thats now nazi-based.

Apparently Elon unfollowed MKBHD after he posted selling his Founders Cybertruck at a $50K loss and saying the Rivian RT1 was a better truck lol.

Oh no! Did he huwt the widdle man's feewings?

A fool and his money...

Help

No.

I can think of one way to get rid of it. Saw it on the news last week. He's probably not going to like it.

Musk said it will be back on the road in no time. I don't think it's going to be quite that easy.
- At least the driver was kind enough to drive it to Musk's assistant's place of business.
- Just take a bulldozer and push it on the street. Still drives as reliable as before.

There is a Tesla dealership near my house that has a lot full of them. A ridiculous number. It seems that Tesla is struggling to get rid of them. Hard to believe that there is not a huge market for electric dumpsters sold by a conspicuous asshole.

I thought Tesla’s business model was to not have dealerships? Don’t you order Tesla’s online? Or are these second hand?
- I don't know. I assume it is either a dealership or a lot for the storage of inventory. They have multiple other Tesla models as well. It hasn't been there long and isn't labeled in Google maps. The photos in street view are years out of date and show buildings that were torn down.
- Dealerships for other brands in the US are independent privately owned enterprises not owned by the major auto makers.
  Tesla doesn't have dealerships in this sense. They do have corporate owned locations in some states where they are allowed to sell directly to consumers however that is only some states as laws prohibit automakers from selling directly in many.
- I don't, but know I've definitely seen Tesla dealerships. They have full Tesla branding so I always assumed they were related to the company and not third party.

Expensive lesson, try not being a sucker next time.

"Oh no my shitty car depreciated" god who would have guessed

All of a sudden I don’t feel like the stupidest person for having my passport stolen and missing my flight.

Ooof sorry to hear that. Any chance of getting it back? Sometimes people take the money but return the IDs / passport to wherever was closest.
- Sorry, I didn’t mean to concern anyone with my absent mindedness. I filed a police report and the police did examine the cameras and confirmed the theft but I didn’t choose to prosecute. I already made arrangements with the embassy to get a temporary pass and travel back home next week.
  All’s well that ends well.

Pictured: typical parking job from cyber truck owner.

Self parking. It enjoys rolling over a squirrel, cat, dog or pigeon.

One major issue for Sledder here is that since Tesla started Cybertruck deliveries, the starting price for his vehicle has significantly fallen...That further lowers the starting price to $70,500.

My man found out the hard way about depreciation. All my life people have said never to buy a new car because it loses 20% of its value the moment you drive it off the lot. If you really want to drive new cars the best way to do it is lease and change every couple of years (this is still not financially sound, just better than buying new).

20%? I always heard 50% lol
cars are kind of a scam
- cars are kind of a scam
  The sadder scam is that most advertisements about car are like this https://youtu.be/KIvC5wsoW2Y (literally the 1st video I found) namely :
  you are alone on the road (even in a city center here!)
  you are driving in gorgeous scenery (here city without any ads or trash, country side, parks, above empty bridges, etc)
  you are smiling while driving
  Whereas the reality is, for the vast majority of people (I'd wager 99%), you will drive bumper to bumper for hours to go from home to work then work to home in polluted cities, going through rings roads, stopping are red lights, etc.
  Cars are a scam in so many ways but IMHO the worst one is the promise of pleasure while driving.
- The more expensive the car the higher the percentage lost by driving off the lot, I think
That is a very good method for a business owner needs a tax write off. People who are employees leasing are fucking idiots.
What's the best used electric car?
I'm afraid that logic doesn't translate because batteries don't last 300,000 miles like the engine on a good ICE Toyota.
- Batteries do last 300,000 miles. They might give only around 80-85% of their original range, but they are still very usable vehicles. Again this also depends on the reliability of the manufacturer and on the how the user has maintained the vehicle.
  Just like how a shitty hyundai engines from back in the day would not last 300,000 miles, poorly managed batteries (like in the older generation nissan leafs) will also not last that long.
- @jaggedcircle @TheDrink reliable condition testing of batteries may be a big deal
- (laughs in fleet of 78 chevys) try 500,000 and still going.

Park it front of a hotel with something something has a fuse

He's lost over $10 grand for every thousand miles he's driven. Or you could express that as $5 grand per month he's owned it. Might even be worse depending on his financing.

I guess this is another reminder that brand new cars can depreciate hard. Absolutely terrible way to rent a car for 8 months.

He lost by thinking a car is an investment.
- Yeah seriously. What the hell kind of logic is that? 😂
So $10 per mile? He could have taken the ridiculous Uber Black service (where you get picked up in a fancy black SUV or town car) as his only mode of transport during that time, and he still would have come out ahead. And we wouldn't have had to drive!

That one is not as bad looking as the rest but it still screams 3rd grade art project

Yeah because they actually primed and painted it lol
- That's a wrap, cap

the shitposter in me wants to say that this isn't a problem you find a solution to, its karma for doing business with the devil.

Fuck tesla in general, but this isn't even that. It's the cost of early adoption. The founder's edition of basically anything is going to be more expensive and less refined than following versions. Once production picks up, nobody really cares about used first runs because it's more of a show-off piece. He's just realizing that the number of people who fawn over his steel box isn't enough to justify keeping that piece of shit.
- many tesla owners have unfortunatley discovered that the brand value on the market is heavily attached to the personal reputation of elon musk,

Have you tried exploding it?

I'll take it for free, I suspect a Cybertruck might be fun to paint in dazzle camouflage, at least it'll hide the shape

You would even have the guillotine frunk. You know, in case you need to chop a ~~billionaire~~ carrot on the go.

I refuse to believe you can't find a Bigger Idiot to buy your used Cybertruck.

Not for the ridiculous price he's trying to sell it for.

Lol owned

Right up there with beanie baby sellers on eBay, lmao.

Sledder also shares that over his lifetime, he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.

Not sure why he’s mentioning exotic cars and Cybertrucks in the same sentence. Anyways, he was a sucker the moment he paid the extra $20k or whatever for the Foundation Series. He was never getting that back.

ngl the front bit of a black cyber truck looks kind of dope. But all of the rest of it still looks like hot garbage.

But reverse. It starts falling apart when you get to the windshield lol
I think it looks the worst when looked from the side.
- Haha yes, exactly like that picture, and everything else you said 😆
I really liked the Cyber Truck design.
Modern cars are so similar now they're all massive and bubbly, even the Porsche SUVs looks like something from KIA.
It may be ugly but I'm happy to see something different on the road.
- They are similar as far as I understand because they all want the same outcomes of the design : better aerodynamics and effective crumple zones to faculiate higher survival of the occupants in a crash (some vehicles additionally try to limit injuries with pedestrians too but less so in US vehicles).
  I do agree that we have lost some of the majesty of older variations of designs but largely I think it'd convergent evolution. To leave that behind you'd want to have a really good reason which I don't think the cyber truck really has. Different for the sake of being different rather than innovative.
The hood/windshield slope kinda reminds me of circa 2005 Lamborghini Gallardo, and that was a cool looking vehicle.

Remember? The value of an item is what you get paid for, not what you want to get from it.

Yeah but think about all the labor that went into making his worthless dumpster truck.
- Socially useful labor is what creates value, not just any labor on any project.

Play stupid games...

It should rust into nothing in a few months, then problem solved.

Lmao eat it loser.

Can’t handle the douchnozzle neon sign lighting up when you drive that thing in public?

Waaahhhh I made a bad financial decision and no one wants to bail me out at a 20% loss.

Lol. Lmao even.

Sucks to suck.

And here I thought Teslas were an appreciating asset.

_/s

We appreciate how it depreciates
I appreciate that I do not have a Tesla

If analyzed in purelly financial terms, buying a brand new car is almost invariably one of the worst investments there is compared to other options (if you really need a car, aim for a car which is 1 or 2 years), and if you couple that with taking a punt on a Musk product on the user side (not even the shareholders' side but quite literally the side of the people the shareholders, most noteably Musk, want to extract money from, so pretty much the suckers' side) AND, maybe worse, doing it as an early adopter, pretty much adds up to a guaranteed lubless shafting.

Investing in a "I'm a sucker" tattoo for one's forehead probably has a better return.

buying a brand new car is almost invariably one of the worst investments
Because it's not an investment. There is nothing wrong with buying a new car if you plan on keeping it. You get the original manufacturer's warranty, no worries about a previous owner having been in an accident or not keeping up with routine maintenance, and often times you can lower your initial cost of ownership via dealer financing that's below market rates because they're willing to take loses there to move vehicles. Just a quick look, 2022 Toyota Corolla SE with 33k miles is selling for roughly ~$23k. A brand new 2025 Corolla SE is selling for ~$26k. If you need to finance it, you're going to get better rates on the new vehicle vs the used. You're getting 3 years worth of improvements and you're getting a full manufacturer's warranty and not just the balance of what's outstanding on a 3 year old vehicle with 33k miles on it.
- Almost every purchase for oneself is an investment, not in the Financial Investment sense of putting money expecting to get more money out but in the broader sense that we buy things because they provide some kind of value to us, which can be a utility value, tge satisfaction of an actual physical need, the pleasure one derive from using it or even just the pleasure of owning it
  People don't just buy things with no reason at all at any level, though often people buy things for the emotional reason that it gives them a jolt of pleasure to buy that thing (not exactly the smartest thing to do IMHO, but quite possibly one of the core pillars holding up present day Consumer Society).
  So in that broader sense even the peace of mind you refer to as a justification for buying a new car has an actual value which can be expressed into a rough money range or, even better, the more personal "how long do I have to work to pay for the peace of mind of a new car instead of buying a 2 year old car".
  Further once you look at it that way, you start identifying which objective/need/feeling you're trying to satisfy and figuring out other ways of satisfying it for less - for example if a car is expensive enough you can literally pay to have many possible used cars you are considering checked by a mechanic before you buy, have car histories checked, and buy an extended warranty, to get that piece mind you wish and still save up a lot of money (or, in another "currency", a lot of days of work to earn that money).
  In that broader sense, IMHO, new cars are generally a bad "investment" versus cars with a year or two because you're paying a huge premium for a piece of mind you might get for much cheaper or might not even need because your fears are just be the product of being widely misinformed about the probability of problems in cars relative (I can tell you from a broader Engineering sense, the rates of problem in physical products in general tend to peak first when they're new, then go down, then start going up again when they're aged, which for something like a car would be 5+ year at least, though beware that I only know this rule as a general thing and don't have car-specific knowledge on it beyond some vaguely remembered stuff I read over a decade ago) and of imagining the worst possible scenario in your mind about what problems a 2 year old used car can give you when the reality is that scenario in your mind is incredibly unlikely and you can buy stupidly cheap insurance to cover it.
- You could easily be paying 19 for the 2022 and if you have good credit you might not have any difference in interest rates and paying the same payment will pay 19 off faster than 26.

Tesla owners deserve every bad thing that comes their way. No sympathy.

I hate them but I'll take it if you're giving it away. My car is already falling apart so it can't be much different.

Unless your car has very specific mechanical failures, at least it won't lock you in with an engine fire.
- It just hurts me in other ways, like financially every time I can't afford it.

Aren't you literally not allowed to resale a Tesla (RIP First Sale doctrine)

It's a real problem to get rid of Leon Musk too. So this is intentionally.

I'd take it for free

I can't give this thing away

Sus

Class-action lawsuit and maybe try not being be an idiot next time

Could probably part it out and make a decent recovery on the cash.