Let's break this down

You pay $50 dollars for the right to buy the car. This is you reserving your spot to buy the vehicle for super duper suresies.

Then you pay another sum, sometime after that, called a deposit. A deposit is a payment against the purchase price of the vehicle. It's $300 total, but you actually only need to pay $250 because you have your sport already.

For other people that didn't buy their spit for $50 earlier, they need to pay the full $300. PLUS! They might not actually get a spot to even do that.

Does that make sense? The $50 was a guarantee to a spot in the purchasing process, which itself begins with a $300 deposit.

It isn't a second reservation fee, it is a deposit towards the purchase price. A fee doesn't go towards the purchase price whereas a deposit does. Does that make sense?

There are no word games, the money goes towards the purchase of the vehicle. Earnest money is a common term for a non-refundable deposit, and is used in many other transactions to show honest intent.

To be clear, I'm not saying I agree with the practice, but I'd be lying to say it was abnormal

A non-refundable deposit is a credit towards the purchase price of the car, similar to how you pay down a loan before receiving the title to the vehicle.

Are you currently in the process of purchasing a new Slate truck?

Have you bought a factory new car on the past?

Think of it this way: you paid $50 for the right to buy the car. Now the time has come to begin buying the car, and the first step of that is a small deposit of $250-300 dollars. Once you pay that, you have officially begun the process of buying the car.

This isn't abnormal for highly anticipated cars, and unless it's your first time buying a new car you shouldn't be surprised to get fucked out of ~1-3k of bullshit fees that weren't included in the price they sales people gave you.

In highschool my friends and I used to see who could get deeper into the sales process of a car before having the fees sprung on us. It was a funny pass time and the way we saw it the shadier the salesperson the more of their time we wasted. We never saw less than $900 of mandatory upsell and that was not in today's money.

With this in mind, I'm pretty skeptical you placed an order for a car from a company backed by Bezos and are surprised they're trying to make the chance to buy a car a subscription opportunity. I appreciate what the Slate is going, but I'm calling BS that you're a buyer.

Nah those food delivery bastards. They don't even go home after they just sit together taking up half the side walk

No one wants to gamble on a $17 (not including tax or tip) cocktail that a girl might want to talk

I would gamble on a $3, hell even a $5 cocktail if everything else was so relatively affordable. The problem is even fast food corps are speculative RE investors now, and they need you to pay $7 for a shitty combo deal to finance their gambling habits.

I think the root of it is really: existing outside of home is just too expensive.

If it's lazy then the fix should be easy, right? Send a PR

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Automatic sidewalk blocker

I think the point is that Fetterman did

I wish laws represented the interests of the 99%

I can't stop finding this hilarious

If you want to be even more pumped, check out the PA Supreme court election and Virginia's governor election.

TLDR: PA sided with trump by about 2% in 2024 but chose to retain 3 democratic justices this hear by ~23% each.

VA has had a MAGA candidate as governor since 2021 and they just elected a dem governor by a whopping 15% margin.

Finally, CA has decided to redraw its congressional districts to erase the republican gains from the Texas redraw, and CA did it with a 30% margin.

NJ has had Latino communities that were previously Trump leaning areas swing heavily in favor of dems yesterday, too, which is likely because of increasing CoL and ICE activity in their communities.

All in, democrats not only took every win they were hoping for but absolutely dominated across the board with no close calls.

UnderpantsWeevil rails against shitty headlines, blasts brg for bad writing

I think potholes are way more meaningful to bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles than cars from a usability standpoint

Support your local library

One of those things that's true until it isn't, IMO.

Homie the second character evolves into a deer

100%. The organization wasn't there yet and seeing that I wanted to remain employed at the time I wasn't going to put up a fight against management 3 layers above me. Legacy business are a different beast when it comes to dumb stuff like that.

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