New Cybertruck owners are bound by a contract that prohibits them from reselling the EV within one year or risk a $50,000 fine.
Some daring individuals have dismissed the threat and are trying to flip their futuristic truck on car sales sites – and some are going for more than $200,000.
DailyMail.com found at least 20 resale offers, depending on the website, and some turned out to be listed on several sites.
For example, the Cybertruck with vehicle identification number (VIN) ending in 0978 is listed on Auto Trader, Car Gurus, Cars.com and others for $249,998 – this mid-range all-wheel drive model costs $79,990 from Tesla.
While these owners may think they’re going unnoticed, one new Cybertruck owner had his reservation canceled after Tesla exposed their listing before the car was even delivered.
Many Cybertruck owners have listed the vehicle for sale on sites like Car Gurus. Some appear to be dealers, while others appear to be private sellers.
DailyMail.com found at least 20 resale listings depending on the website, and some appeared to be on multiple sites
Under the pre-order contract that buyers sign when they make a $100 deposit, any owner who resells the truck within a year of purchasing it from Tesla could be sued by Tesla for $50,000 or the profit they make on the sale – any number. higher.
A new owner posted on the Cybertruck Owners Club message board Sunday that Tesla had contacted him after he put his vehicle up for sale.
His two remaining reservations have now been canceled and the potential Cybertruck flipper may be excluded from future Tesla purchases, according to an email he shared from Tesla.
The so-called Cybertruck flipper shared part of an email he received from Tesla. The email stated that Tesla would cancel its future orders without a refund, but he said he did not know if that applied to all Tesla vehicles or just the Cybertruck.
DailyMail.com has contacted Tesla to confirm its version of events.
The owner of Cybertruck is an IT manager named Dennis from Arizona, based on his Cybertruck Owners Club profile.
He is not the first to try to sell the new electric truck for a price increase, for which there is a long waiting list.
Dennis from Arizona also claimed he had listed the truck on multiple sites “just to try it out,” and claimed he had not sold it yet.
He wrote on the message board that he assumed Tesla had found his car gurus list, which contained the chassis number of his car.
“I listed it for a ridiculous number because I thought it was funny. $242,069,” he wrote.
From Monday one List of car gurus from Dennis in Arizona was still on the market, where the car is now for sale for $192,069.
There were no other listings of a Cybertruck with the same VIN available on other car classified sites at the time.
Dennis said he had reserved two more Cybertrucks, both of which have reportedly been canceled.
He wrote that he received refunds for those, but he was warned by a Tesla store manager that if he tried to make any more reservations, they would be canceled without a refund, according to an email he shared on the car club forum:
‘Going forward, any future orders you place will be cancelled without a refund of the $100 reservation fee and the $250 order fee as an official notice has been provided to you regarding this matter,” the message read.
The listing for Dennis’s Cybertruck was still live on the Car Gurus website on Monday. However, he had reduced the price by $50,000.
There are at least 20 different Cybertrucks for sale online, most for or around $200,000 – several times what the car retails for
The Tesla Pre-Order Agreement because the Cybertruck is clear about the conditions:
“Tesla and its subsidiaries sell vehicles directly to end users, and we may unilaterally cancel any order that we believe was placed for the purpose of resale of the vehicle or was otherwise placed in bad faith.
“We may also cancel your pre-order and refund your pre-order payment if we discontinue a product, feature or option after you place your pre-order or if we determine that you are acting in bad faith.”
Dennis reported that he did not know if Tesla would drop the hammer on the $50,000.
One commenter noted that the so-called Cybertruck flipper was lucky that Tesla had not remotely disabled his vehicle.