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

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 3, 2016 @05:56AM 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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Re:Bet Alsop isn't used to being fired by Racemaniac · 2016-02-03 06:32 · Score: 5, Informative

I read his post, and i don't see how it's overly harsh... if i went to some hyped up introduction of a new car, and it starts nearly 2 hours late, and i'm number 1300+ in line for mere 5 cars to have a "testdrive" in it... that's ridiculous >_.