I need to understand why people still keep giving that man money. Willingly. It’s mind boggling.
They like being scammed pretty much.
I don’t either. People love being shit on I guess. It’s what makes huge companies like Apple and Tesla so popular.
Apple makes some really stupid products that they charge ridiculous money for and their usual stuff is more expensive than it needs to be but at least their core products are of very good quality. The same cannot be said of Tesla
Good quality but still overpriced. You pay for the brand name.
Good quality but still overpriced. You pay for the brand name.
It must be because not everyone follows him around like us on reddit/Lemmy. I think this sort of thing is not reported in mainstream news. So the average person is barely aware of who Elon Musk even is.
It really is.
I’m just amazed anyone would buy the truck, let alone a $3k tent for it.
Just tattoo idiot on your forehead. At least you’d still have most of your money.
I guess if you were going for that post-apocalyptic mad max vibe the cybertruck offers then this is the perfect accessory!
Really looks like someone made a makeshift shelter out of trash bags over the shell of a wrecked old shitty truck.
If it cost like $75 max that’s within realms of sensibility. If I bought that thing for 3000 I’d probably die from embarrassment. It’s like an advertisement for how gullible you are.
I mean, these people did already buy cybertrucks…
Holy shit this had me laughing hard. Someone paid $3k for that shit? 😂
This is what happens when you let billionaire leeches like Elon make decisions rather than real engineers.
Wait, 3k? My $50 tent is better and larger.
easier to setup and will probably last longer.
Definitely does not have the Steve Jobs talent
Idk, he is still managing to sell way overpriced versions of existing tech to people. Albeit much less polished. His main mistake is exposing himself as an idiot at every opportunity, rather than keeping the mystique to make it seem cool.
“We’re sorry that you aren’t happy with the tent. The tent shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make. We aren’t planning on doing anything about it.”
Do you really think they’d get a reply, and not the usual poop emoji?
OK Elon, thank you! How much money do you need next? No need to tell me for what. Just let me send you some money.
At what point does it become cheaper to just have a W-2 menial stand around you with an umbrella?
The Pontiac Aztec has risen from the dead.
Over-promise and under-deliver, that is the tesla way.
100%. That has been exactly my experience. There’s no question it’s a good car, but they always manage to set higher expectations than what they are capable of delivering. You can’t help but feel disappointed even though you have a great EV. It’s really soured me on the whole brand. I would never buy another one.
Pontiac Aztec anyone?
This one looks like a fleshlight. Where can I find dye bleach?
dye bleach 🤔
Quite close.
Tent unfolded.
Adding this to my directives. If I’m ever seen sitting underneath a Pontiac Aztec tent in flip-flops, it means I’ve lost the will to live and life supporting measures should be halted. Primarily removing my available oxygen supply via pillow suffocation.
Why you gotta be such a a grumpy douche?
Why so mean? Don’t be the bully! That’s just a random camper dude… What happened that you get PTSD because of flip-flops…?
Frankly he looks like he’s thriving. I’m happy for him
These idiots just line up to be grifted publicly and then willingly drive around advertising that they are broken trash people. Never stop ridiculing these chuds
I finally saw one of these ugly things (the truck), down in Miami a few days ago.
Motorcycle (and backpacking) camper here, so right there are my credentials for being able to shove a camping loadout into a vehicle.
For $3000, you can buy an entire high end backpacking setup, and also be able to use it without the presence of your stupid truck. And when I say entire, I mean it: A nice free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to, a premium cot or inflatable pad, very competent sleeping bag, backpack, stove, water filter, hiking poles, a chair, a nice knife, the whole lot.
With change left over. I just added up the full list prices of everything in my core loadout and you could buy it all (including the backpack, which you don’t need for truck camping) for $1418.82.
So just do that instead.
free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to
The cyber truck bed is ~72x51(I have also seen 49"). Most 2 person tents are 50-54x78-88. I couldn’t find the bed length with the tailgate down, but the interior height with the cover closed is about 20", so we can assume the available length would be over 90". The other issue is most 2 person tents are side opening and getting out would be a bother, but a head or foot opening tent could totally work.
You could squeeze in a very nice 2 person head opening tent and spend under $800 easily, you can have a nice tent for $250. A custom 4 season tent is still only about $1,000.
But truck bed tents do exist, and those would fit easily and are under $500 all day.
Even in the same kind of class of hardware, a Thule roof-tent is vastly superior for less money.
And! You can move that to your next vehicle when your Cybertruck inevitably disintegrates.
Hey that’s not rust that’s a lovely brown patina!
When you factor in the roof rack you need to get, most reputable RTT are in that $3k price range.
Yeah, even a high-quality truck or SUV compatible tent is a minor fraction of the cost here. I could walk into an REI with $3,000.00 and end up with an incredible kit of camping gear. This is highway robbery.
I’m pretty sure what happened is that they were essentially pitching a shell for the back of the truck. And if it’s rigid and made of metal and maybe folded down to act as a cover while driving, fine. That’d still be a lot more than what the average truck/SUV convertible will cost. But it’s Tesla so it’s expected.
But then they changed to this BS and couldn’t reduce the price without recognizing the drop in expectation so here we are.
It’s the price you deserve to pay if you support Tesla.
Yeah, but none of that helps convince me I didn’t buy a shitty truck and stave off the buyer’s remorse for another few months!
It’s not rust, it’s a P a t i n a
C’mon, Tesla. Pontiac had this shit figured out almost 25 years ago with the Aztek. This isn’t difficult.
That’s like Bethesda fallout backpack levels of quality
I have one of those 76 “canvas” (vinyl) bags sitting around somewhere. Anytime somebody I know gets excited about a new Bethesda game, I just send them a picture of it and tell them that I’ve got a great bag to sell them.
Actual bagholder lmao
Literally. It’s like owning a piece of video game history like one of the cartridges of ET for the Atari - a shitty piece of video game history about the greed of companies.
Can I see the Pic of the bag?
It feels a lot like one of those bags you get at a con for free, or a jacket that you’d get off of a cheap Chinese website like Alibaba or Temu. That cheap woven plastic type of material.
Didn’t a lot of them show up moldy, too?
That’s even worse than I was expecting
I wasn’t surprised that they cheaped out on the bag, most collector’s edition stuff isn’t what I’d call “high quality” and a canvas bag on its own would be pretty pricey for collector’s edition stuff (and that game came with like a full-size helmet and stuff too), but I was really surprised at just how cheap they went. There’s replacing the item with a cheaper alternative, and then there’s lowest bidder from the sweatshops cheap.
It does literally compare it to that whole debacle in the article
It does? I didn’t see that anywhere
Ah. I use reader mode and it didn’t load the comments. Thanks
Honestly, I didn’t see that whole controversy when it happened and I just looked it up. The final, actually canvas, bag they ended up sending…still seems like a huge ripoff. But that’s just me and I’ve never really seen anything but the monster factory episodes of fallout.
Yeah the whole thing was a sham. So glad I usually buy games after 1 year and on sale.
I think the worst part is they gave streamers and influencers the actual promised canvas bag. That shows someone made this shitty decision and knew it was shitty.
And here I was thinking all of Elon’s fanboys carry a permanent tent anyway?
Stop preordering unreleased things.
Don’t preorder games or unreleased cars.
The “preorders” for the truck were $250 and were refundable. They basically just held your spot in line and allowed you the option to order at a certain time.
Also, I could be wrong, but I don’t think you could preorder the tent.
The article at least implies there were changes between the time you could buy and the time they were shipping.
It said it changed since the Cybertruck reveal in 2019, and when then tent arrived for sale 3 months ago, it was different than the original reveal concept.
I don’t believe you were able to preorder the tent during the reveal. You could only reserve an order spot for the truck, and you could back out of that reservation if you changed your mind.
If you didn’t like changes that were made to the truck or the accessories between reveal and launch, you could totally get your $250 back and walk over to the Rivian store.
The way it said:
The product became ‘Basecamp’ and was released for sale shortly after Tesla revealed the production version of the truck last year. It already seemed to be a lot less attractive design at that point. Now, Tesla has started shipping, or rather installing, the Basecamp for early Cybertruck owners.
(Emphasis mine) made me think it got worse after the design changes at sale time, but maybe I misinterpreted it.
Here are the press shots from when it was announced for sale at the of end last year. They’re the press shots they’re still using to promote the product 3 months later.
https://expeditionportal.com/tesla-launches-the-cybertruck-basecamp/
The article is basically saying that when the tent was announced for sale, the design changed and it was much less exciting than the early concepts. Some people bought them anyway, fully knowing that they were no longer something with stainless steel sides.
Now that they have arrived, the reality of the lacklusterness has now really set in.
Got it, thanks!
