Comment by robrain
15 hours ago
That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1]
[1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in...
EDIT: grammar
What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.
Sales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.
Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number.
Your claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it?
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> artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.
People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them.
Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.
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[X] doubt