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Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Mercury News:
Tesla's sleek, $1,500 carbon fiber surfboard sold out in a day, and it's not surprising: The company, in collaboration with a Southern California board maker, said it was producing a limited edition of 200, and Tesla has many die-hard fans. The board "features a mix of the same high-quality matte and gloss finishes used on all our cars," Tesla said in promotional material for the product. "The deck is reinforced with light-weight 'Black Dart' carbon fiber, inspired by the interiors in our cars...."
Now, less than a week after orders were submitted, 21 of the boards -- sized to fit in the Palo Alto electric car maker's Model 3 and Model S sedans, and the Model X SUV -- are up for sale on eBay. Asking prices are steep, as high as $6,450, with most sellers wanting $3,000 to $4,000.
Now, less than a week after orders were submitted, 21 of the boards -- sized to fit in the Palo Alto electric car maker's Model 3 and Model S sedans, and the Model X SUV -- are up for sale on eBay. Asking prices are steep, as high as $6,450, with most sellers wanting $3,000 to $4,000.
There's one born every minute.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And their junk bonds are selling for 90 cents on the dollar.
That's enough to double their stock price!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I've built composite stuff for years.
Carbon fiber is useful but may not give an advantage such that it is worth using. Sometimes S-glass is the better choice when you consider what sort of properties you need. Carbon does have a number of drawbacks - it is fragile when subjected to point loading, and it tends to hold more resin than is optimal ( unless you use pre-preg ).
Anyway, a Tesla carbon surfboard is something a real surfer is not going to favor. But it's perfect for wankers who are willing to spend more money in an effort to look cool. Oddly enough the Tesla car shares these characteristics.
I do want to ask the editors of Slashdot whether their knees are sore from so much worshipping of that egomaniac Elon Musk. Or maybe the editors use knee pads ?
Fashion statement, sure. Expensive show off thing, sure. Surfboard? Nah.
I surf and there are a couple rains carbon fiber boards aren't a thing, and is not cost. Pros don't use carbon boards. Pros who's entire livelihood is dependent on surfing don't use carbon boards. Here's why:
Some parts of a board need to be stiff, others need to be flexible. This Tesla board claims to have a special kind of carbon, but that's not the point, the best fiberglass boards use different weaves of fiberglass, nowadays generally with some carbon weave in strategic spots.
Also, carbon is brittle and hard. When a fiberglass board hits a rock/head/leg/the ground/your car if can dent. Carbon fiber tends to have no dent, just a shatter.
Finally, the "no dent" in that last sentence might sound good, it's strong! Remember though that "head" and "leg" are the two things the board hits most in the water when bring tossed by a big wave. Or even a little wave!
This board has bad design from the get go. The marketing speaks of "special features" like narrow rails and a full nose, which are not special at all. The boards size had been determined by the car instead of the rider, and the materials are gimmicky instead of useful.
Headline is a click-bait. Even the summary states that sellers are offering it at $3,000, so what sane person is paying $6,450? It could list it for $100,000, it doesn't mean it's selling at that price.
The world of collectable surfboards is like any other "collectable" world, filled with no end of strange and wonderful beasties.
Get your hands on a pristine-condition Miki Dora "Da Cat" model and you've got yourself something very rare and valuable.
Compared to what's being ridden nowadays, the thing will handle on a wave in similar fashion to what you might pick up at a shipyard somewhere, U.S. Naval surplus.
But that's not the point, and nobody's going to be putting their Da Cat into the water.
That's not the point.
And it can be expected to be just the same way with these Tesla boards.
The people who collect these sorts of things follow their own set of guidelines and rules.
So say what you will, but once the thing takes on a life of its own (which is already happening with these boards), then it no longer matters what you say.
For myself, I'll stick with my Peck Penetrator.
Better board.
Still rides just fine.
Given the stock spike last week after the Q2 report, "people" are finally starting to believe Tesla when it says that it's going to be sustainably profitable as a major automaker, starting this quarter, after Wall Street having doubted that this would be possible for their entire history
Given that Tesla is attacking/creating multiple, multi-trillion dollar markets with a major first-mover advantage (to the point that they're making more EV batteries than everyone else combined, growing their energy division by an order of magnitude on the scale of a year, etc), far from it.
The short campaign managed to slow them down a bit this year by limiting access to borrowed capital, but that ability comes to an end when dealing with a profitable company. Which it is about to become. This quarter.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
Musk is a titan, fighting for Justice, and to Save Us All!
The stink on that is getting old.
Better mix in a little more 'market success, aren't we all elated at market success.'
Have you put your blue dress on eBay yet? Remember, when Elon falls, nobody will care any longer.
It's amazing that a headline here on Slashdot is based on such an ignorance of how value is defined.
The only way to determine the value of something is to determine what price it is actually being sold for.
High start-price items on eBay are the ones that very specifically have NOT been sold.
I can list my baby-AT footprint 386sx motherboard (populated with all 4MB of RAM!) on eBay for $1500. The listing fee isn't that much.
It's amazing that a headline here on Slashdot is based on such an ignorance of how value is defined.
But .. But .. Tesla
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
Can I get one with a flamethrower mounted on it? This would be great for those Hawaiian surf spots where they won't let in outsiders.
Just $389 each! Add $99 for the special limited edition colors of Red, Black or blue!
Lower-than-the-industry-average injury rate despite being in the middle of a major production scaleup, over 30% lower injury rate vs. three years ago, a small fraction as much of an injury rate as the facility had before they took it over = "among the 12 worst employers", in your mind?
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
Apparently the major shoe companies sell limited edition shoes on their websites which are highly desired by collectors, first come, first serve. He and people like him coded bots which would monitor the websites for these sales, and buy as many of these limited edition shoes as they could the instant they were listed on the website. Then he'd sell them to collectors at a considerable markup. Kinda like high-frequency trading, except with shoes.
(Past tense because his programming skills weren't enough to keep up, and he ended up getting a regular job as his bots were purchasing fewer and fewer shoes.)
For this price it should use regenerative breaking (hydro-static pressure from gravitational forces, turning a small turbine) to charge a bank of batteries so it can paddle you back out to catch the next wave. An autopilot should then figure out the best route to maximize the remaining battery pack and the exact amount of energy, to consume in charging the batteries, needed to maximize the actual surfing time.
Fashion statement, sure. Expensive show off thing, sure. Surfboard? Nah.
It's a limited edition of 200. It's intended to be a collectable trophy, not a serious surfing product. It brought the company $300,000 and its price is slowly climbing in the post-release trading, which is exactly what was supposed to happen.
If somebody actually used it to surf it would make it non pristine and cut into its collectable price.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Right. So a spike of over 16%, and a drop of less than half a percent, is "a downward trend"?
A ton of shorts loaded on at the last spike, almost none of them have covered, and it's still almost as high as it was then.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
Try Teh Google. Injury rates have been reported on the conference calls and investor meetings - aka, where making false statements are criminal acts. Even in the Worksafe report, based on 2015 data, had an injury rate a small fraction of the pre-Toyota NUMMI rate (35 injuries per 100 workers), and still less than the post-Toyota rate. Again, Teh Google.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
Sorry, mom, I'll try to go to bed sooner in the future.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
$353,50 (+1,53%) and rising. Hey, what happened to your "downward trend"? ;)
Enjoy your squeeze. These things are oh-so-much-fun because they pit a classic Prisoner's Dilemma (first to "betray" gets out with the most) against hubris ;)
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of charge
I'm still afloat
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
It seems the largest single category of buyers were ebay speculators. ;-)
And now today it's up 1,13%. Funny, its almost like stocks fluctuate on a day-to-day basis, and calling small one-day changes "downtrends" or "uptrends" is bloody stupid, huh?
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.