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Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event

Posted by timothy on from the talk-about-a-flat-organizational-structure dept.

New submitter umafuckit writes: Blogger Stewart Alsop wrote an open letter to Elon Musk following a supposedly badly run launch event for the Model X. Alsop complained that the event started almost 2 hours late and was unable to test drive the car (for which has put down a deposit). In response, Musk cancelled Alsop's pre-order saying "Must be a slow news day if denying service to a super rude customer gets this much attention." Alsop, who is known not just for his prolific blogging but for his role as a founding partner at VC firm Alsop Louie Partners, compares his treatment by Tesla to that of BMW, about which he's also said some unflattering things as a customer.

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  1. Re: Waahhh rich people problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Waaahhh waaahhhh I spent my money on beer, drugs, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and spinning hubcaps.... Waaaahhhhh waaahhhhh now I'm poor and stupid and whiney and voting for Bernie Sanders waaahhh

  2. Re:Bet Alsop isn't used to being fired by jcr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is that you, Elon? Just want to let you know that you've made a complete ass of yourself.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  3. Re:Bet Alsop isn't used to being fired by Aighearach · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No grandpa, that was just an opossum. Nap time, take your meds.

    I'm not going to scroll up to see what you were replying to, but if you have to pretend that somebody is somebody else in order to dismiss whatever they said... you probably secretly agreed with them, but wanted to say something nasty anyways.

    What an ass.