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KamaAina

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Thu Feb 4, 2016, 01:38 PM Feb 2016

Elon Musk Personally Cancels 'Super Rude' Customer's Tesla Model X Order

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Elon-Musk-Personally-Cancels-Super-Rude-6803871.php

Warning: Watch your mouth when you talk about Tesla online. If you say the wrong thing, Elon Musk could bring down the hammer and block you from buying one of his precious electric cars.

In fact, the golden boy CEO did just that, personally canceling venture capitalist Stewart Alsop’s order for a Model X after Alsop called him out for showing up almost two hours late to the official launch event for the CUV....

No surprise here, Alsop took to Medium once again after the two apparently spoke on the phone, revealing the hot-headed man behind Iron Man’s petty move. “I heard from our phone conversation that you feel that my post, “Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself”, was a personal attack on you,” he wrote. “I also hear that you are not comfortable having me own a Tesla car and have cancelled my order for a Tesla Model X.”

Once the press got wind of the catfight, the Twitterverse went off and so did Musk, confirming that he had car-blocked a “super rude customer.”


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Elon Musk Personally Cancels 'Super Rude' Customer's Tesla Model X Order (Original Post) KamaAina Feb 2016 OP
It seems more like a personal feud than an actual rude customer. mackerel Feb 2016 #1
You can do that? jmowreader Feb 2016 #2
Sure, if you're Elon Musk. KamaAina Feb 2016 #3
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