Obviously. Doesn't change that this is "normal"

What is not "normal" is that, like all of musk's companies, they manage to fuck up even the most trivial of PR wins.

Gallant would either buy the truck back (maybe minus a "restocking" fee) and use it for parts or replace enough parts they can call it "new" and re-sell it. Or they would coordinate with an influencer they trust to favor them and broker the deal

Goofus tells the cusomer to go fuck themselves and assume they will win on twitter.

Yup. It was especially hilarious how many people on the various message boards and discords would talk about "Oh, this is the tenth PS5 that I found to buy for my friends". And there were people dumb enough to think they weren't scalping.

Which was actually nice. The Sony website queues were... bad. But it was tied to a PSN account which drastically limited how many an individual could buy. I am sure that, much like with Valve doing the same for the Steam Deck, is no longer effective because professional scalpers have like 40 accounts they bought a 2 dollar game on. But it made for a much nicer experience.

In theory? I prefer that approach.

In practice? Oh yeah, I totally legally sold my stupidly and unnecessarily expensive limited edition shoes to someone for sticker price. On a completely unrelated note, they gave me an extra 500 dollars for no apparent reason"

"No resale" sidesteps all of that while also removing the bad PR of "and all 5000 cybertrucks were on facebook marketplace two days later".

The issue is not the no resale for N months policy. That is, ironically, more pro consumer than not. The issue is that it is being applied to a shitty product with prototype teething issues where the scarcity was artificially induced due to poor design processes.

Now, if we want to have a DIFFERENT discussion about how most of these "prestige" products are marketed through artificially induced scarcity then... yeah. But in a world where people want to buy something with a ridiculously limited run? I would rather the people fighting over who gets to buy it actually "want" it rather than just the same scalper bots we see in everything else.

Lawyers aren't cheap...

It may not be, but it worked on this guy though intimidation since he isn't going to contest it.

Yeah, but he lives in Utah, so...

You think people who want a Cybertruck are intelligent? Or aren't willing to pay and extra 50k to get it now, instead of having to wait a year or more to get it after deciding?

Supply and demand. Whenever there is more demand than supplies, there is opportunity for scalpers and flippers to take advantage.

Regardless what you think about the product, the manufacturer or its ceo, protection from scalpers/flippers is good consumer protection.

I would love one of those kei trucks for camping. Solid size and I can have a whole set up in the back. Would you happen to know if there's an American alternative? I've looked into some kei trucks and there's some cheap ones in japan but it would be a fortune to import and I'm not car savvy so I couldn't do my own repairs.

Going into decimal mm really isn't necessary for anything. No one can be that precise (except milling).