For a time, it triggered protests from many Tesla owners. Someone went directly to the Tesla store and pulled up the banner: Tesla arbitrarily priced, infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
However, the behavior of these car owners not only did not get sympathy, but was immediately strongly criticized by netizens:
It's not too expensive to buy, but it's troublesome to reduce the price?
What rights and interests have been violated? Is the warranty not guaranteed or the parts are not available?
Do people need to discuss the price reduction with you? You bought it voluntarily.
Obviously, the so-called violation of the legitimate rights and interests of consumers is purely barbaric and rude. And legally speaking, Tesla has the independent decision-making power to reduce the sales price.
Just as Tesla's price reduction triggered rights protection, last year's price reduction sales of housing enterprises also attracted a large number of owners to protect their rights.
However, it is not impossible to reduce prices and protect rights, provided that a guarantee agreement is signed, that is, the seller promises that the goods sold will not reduce prices or increase prices within a certain period of time. One of the best explanations for this incomprehensible behavior is that it is a reflection of China people's gloomy psychology and the highest level of greed: others take advantage and suffer. Because the biggest unhappiness of these defenders is: Why should I spend more money on the same thing than others?
There is really no contrast, no harm. In the final analysis, it is the mentality of comparing. Middle-class consumer goods like Tesla still have some exaggeration. Cars that were originally worth more than one million have been reduced in price, and now they are only worth more than 800 thousand. How embarrassing is it to talk? Who knows that I bought more than one million, not more than 800 thousand?
An indisputable assumption is that they are extremely selfish only for their own interests. If they are allowed to sign an insurance agreement with the car shop (real estate agent), the seller will compensate the buyer for the loss of price reduction and the buyer will make up the difference in price increase.
Will they sign it? We must resolutely not sign it.
What is tacit with this dark psychology is another kind of abnormal psychology-others suffer and gloat themselves; If you suffer, others will suffer.
Put yourself in the shoes and talk to the two Tesla owners after the price reduction. If the relationship is good, people who buy a car after the price reduction will definitely be complacent: you see, driving the same car costs hundreds of thousands less than you. There may even be a sense of superiority, how lucky I am. If these two people don't get along well, they will think: boy, it's your buddy who is back. You were set up by someone else.
Others take advantage and feel that they have suffered correspondingly, which is the evil result of selfishness and comparison; I feel much more comfortable when others suffer. This is jealousy and hatred.
This kind of gloating under jealousy is the envy of "I can't see that others are better off than me", the malice of "clapping my hands when someone is down" and the extreme selfishness of "monopolizing the cheap and jumping with the pit".
If selfishness is human nature, then this comparison, jealousy and even gloating is distorted human nature.