[HN Gopher] Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279...
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       Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2026-04-17 18:56 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (electrek.co)
        
       | jazz9k wrote:
       | This also happens in the Startup community....
        
         | nickff wrote:
         | It is very popular in many industries; when it is accomplished
         | by convincing re-sellers to take in more stock than they
         | desire, it is called 'stuffing the channel'. Book publishers
         | are famous for doing this to achieve 'best-seller' status.
        
       | jgbuddy wrote:
       | What would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they
       | were purchased at all?
       | 
       | The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for
       | the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of
       | course makes no sense from a business perspective
        
         | benj111 wrote:
         | Except when the CEO of publicly owned Tesla gets paid based on
         | performance.
        
         | browningstreet wrote:
         | Elon keeps doing things that make no sense from a business
         | perspective and he's defended by people who exclaim it couldn't
         | have happened like that because it makes no sense from a
         | business perspective.
        
         | nitwit005 wrote:
         | The general behavior of doing things that don't particularly
         | make sense from a business perspective, to make numbers look
         | better, is unfortunately common. People exploit it by doing
         | things like trying to get a discount near end of quarter.
        
         | aucisson_masque wrote:
         | > The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks
         | for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of
         | course makes no sense from a business perspective
         | 
         | I think you missed the part where Tesla is overevaluated and
         | any bad news could utterly crush it's share value.
        
         | solarkraft wrote:
         | "This makes no sense" => "I don't understand the purpose"
         | 
         | The most obvious motive is juicing the numbers.
        
         | qq66 wrote:
         | It makes no sense? When the companies have the same CEO?
        
       | hnburnsy wrote:
       | Currently no in stock new or used and a two month delivery
       | estimate.
        
         | vel0city wrote:
         | > two month delivery estimate.
         | 
         | Their website for my zip said two weeks.
         | 
         | Which seems like a long while, seeing as how their big
         | "can't-call-it-a-dealsership" nearby has like 20-30 sitting on
         | the lot for a while. I imagine they'd make their two week
         | estimate early.
         | 
         | There's about 30 or so listed used online around me.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799420
        
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