One has to wonder if the people setting up the group buy pulled that
target price out of their ass. I can sympathize with Nissan if that
price is below wholesale or worse. Are you really losing "sales" if you
would have to actually pay the people to take the cars? I would tout how
much money I saved the company by not giving away the cars at a loss.
And I doubt Tesla will want to tender a group buy for $20k per car when
they've got 400,000 to sell at full list price first.
--Rick
On 8/29/2016 6:12 AM, brucedp5 via EV wrote:
In the first week of August, a group of EV lovers in Montreal, Canada set up
a group-buy effort for the Nissan LEAF. About 2,500 people initially signed
up for the group-buy deal and the number of interested buyers had climbed up
to 3,700 by the time their proposal reached the Nissan’s corporate HQ in
Canada. The main idea of the group buy was to use the strength of numbers
(almost 4000 orders) as a leverage to get massive discount on the sticker
price of the car.
The Nissan LEAF has a sticker price of $31,998 (CAD) for the S Trim. The
members in the group-buy deal were hoping that they could get Nissan to sell
the car at a $20,000 CAD each. However, in an “understandable” turn of
events, Nissan Canada’s president has rejected the group buy offer and
effectively shut down the plan.
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