I would like to thank all those who canceled and forced them to roll back their decision. I am concerned about Rivian for the long term though. Yes, mistakes do happen but a mistake of this scale should never happened. They lost confidence in customers, investors. Gonna take years to recover...
I did the same. Canceled and ordered Model Y, the evening of the price increase announcement. Will go back and re-instate my order. They will not win me back for a long time, but they did take the first step to restore my confidence.
I just don't get what they were trying to do here with the price increase, sure the inflation caused this. They are smart ppl to understand that they will lose a lot of goodwill if they do this, they should have known their stock will take a beating. They just lost 10B$ in market cap, they could...
I spoke to a dealer near Atlanta today, they had 2 EV6's available now, got exited and started taking about price. He told me sticker is 59k and they were asking 79k .. 20k over sticker. Said even if I did a reservation, they are going to add 20k as premium. WTH .. asked him if he thought I was...