Latest Email From Paul Elio---- Nice Gesture Or Calming The Lynch Party???? Added Bonus

I see this as a win, and I'm a skeptic. I'm declaring victory and moving on.

ThreeWheelBurnin said:

I'm in the 70% group. If I upgrade my reservation to the $1000 level, do you suppose that I would get a 70% bonus on the $1000 or just on my original $100?

That's probably what this is all about... Getting people like me to upgrade so they can get a little more upfront cash in the coffers... I'm cool with that, I suppose.

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I am pretty sure you'd only get the 70% on the funds you deposited DURING that specified time period. A subsequent upgrade now would be at the usual 50% rate. If you paid the additional $900 now, you'd get an extra $450 bonus, for a total bonus of $450 + $70 or $520 (not $700).

I'm in the 70% group. The extra two hundred will just go towards the auto transmission upgrade so Elio won't lose anything. I would guess most would apply their additional bonus to another option they might not have ordered. Still a nice gesture.

Life is good and I'll send the bonus on upgrades.

Since noone brought it up, here's the 3rd possibility. Give people warm fuzzy feelings to try and neutralize the effects of another delay announcement soon to follow.

Joshua Caldwell said:

Since noone brought it up, here's the 3rd possibility. Give people warm fuzzy feelings to try and neutralize the effects of another delay announcement soon to follow.

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That did occur to me, but I didn't want to ruin the mood. It also crossed my mind, that 70% of nothing, is still nothing,

Joshua Caldwell said:

Since noone brought it up, here's the 3rd possibility. Give people warm fuzzy feelings to try and neutralize the effects of another delay announcement soon to follow.

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Hello Parade, meet the rain...

Joshua Caldwell said:

Since noone brought it up, here's the 3rd possibility. Give people warm fuzzy feelings to try and neutralize the effects of another delay announcement soon to follow.

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I thought about that, but it doesn't really fit. It could happen, but not right now. I fall square in the camp of it's targeted marketing, someone is dangling a carrot in front of EM, so they're dangling their own carrot. At this point the best selling point Elio Motors has is the huge number of reservation holders, and most of us are "all in" at one level or another. I could imagine any number of schemes i.e. whilst basking in the glow of EM's "generosity", I don't know, maybe 10,000 of us each convince two more people to make a reservation, etc which, imagine that, triggers funding from an interested party for building out to P30. Etc, and so forth. Counter intuitively, it's about funding somehow.

Ok so I read it and other than the deal on reservation holds bonuses it tells us nothing

Smitty901 said:

Ok so I read it and other than the deal on reservation holds bonuses it tells us nothing

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But you have to admit, it was nice to know they still know who we are, after the long period of no news at all.