LE R1S Sold at Post 03/01/2022 Pricing

[Longhorngirl]

I saw this LE R1S being sold on Cars and Bids. https://carsandbids.com/auctions/KYdY7YXP/2022-rivian-r1s-launch-edition

From what the seller, a current Rivian R1T owner, has posted about why he is selling, Rivian offered him a LE R1S, even though he didn’t have a R1S reservation. He asked for LE pricing, but got the post March pricing. WTH is going on? There are tons of LE R1S preorder holders waiting that Rivian could have offered this truck to. What’s worse is that he doesn’t even want it and is now flipping it.

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[ads75]

That story sounds really fishy.

 

[dleewla]

WTH is going on here?

 

[COdogman]

There is something off about that story.

 

[KingTodd]

That story is difficult for me to believe. Who would pay ~$95k on a SUV that they didn't order, nor want, just to sell it. Why not just tell Rivian to sell it and keep your own money?

 

[Texasag05]

That story is difficult for me to believe. Who would pay ~$95k on a SUV that they didn't order, nor want, just to sell it. Why not just tell Rivian to sell it and keep your own money?

To be honest that’s actually believable. If I was offered a rivian or H2 or any of these new vehicles at sticker I would buy and try to flip as well. So from the sellers stand point very believable. But what does sound fishy is the fact that Rivian actually made that offer to him with no reservation. I’d like to think they aren’t that horrible of a company. I mean that was the type of thing some very shady dealerships were doing when the Broncos first came out. They would sell people’s reservations from under them.

I have hard time thinking Rivian would do that. The short term gain over the long term brand credibility would not be worth it. At least I’m hoping….

My guess….dude had a reservation for LE and is just trying to pump up the price. Shady on his part but I’d rather that be the case than Rivian being the one who just sold a LE without a reservation when so many are waiting for theirs for a couple of years now.

But I could always be wrong, who knows these days.

 

[larrydallas]

That story is difficult for me to believe. Who would pay ~$95k on a SUV that they didn't order, nor want, just to sell it. Why not just tell Rivian to sell it and keep your own money?

It does sound far-fetched and hard to believe Rivian would be that deceptive with the community. They’ve been astoundingly terrible at PR and can’t seem to manage consumer expectations better than a third grader, but offering an LE R1S randomly to an R1T pre-order holder to try to make a higher profit on a single vehicle seems beyond illogical and stupid. Why offer it to him? Wouldn’t they be offering it to other R1T holders as well who could corroborate this is happening on this forum? Wouldn’t they expect massive PR fallout if the news were to leak - a much bigger downside risk than just offering it to an early R1S pre-order holder.

All that said, there’s one theoretically obvious answer to the question above on why wouldn’t the purchaser just tell Rivian “to sell it and keep your own money”: profit.

My guess is that same answer is also why the seller might be stretching the truth about the situation. I suppose there’s a remote possibility Rivian IS this stupid, in which case apologies to the buyer/seller for the heavy dose of skepticism.

 

[KingTodd]

To be honest that’s actually believable. If I was offered a rivian or H2 or any of these new vehicles at sticker I would buy and try to flip as well. So from the sellers stand point very believable. But what does sound fishy is the fact that Rivian actually made that offer to him with no reservation. I’d like to think they aren’t that horrible of a company. I mean that was the type of thing some very shady dealerships were doing when the Broncos first came out. They would sell people’s reservations from under them.

I have hard time thinking Rivian would do that. The short term gain over the long term brand credibility would not be worth it. At least I’m hoping….

My guess….dude had a reservation for LE and is just trying to pump up the price. Shady on his part but I’d rather that be the case than Rivian being the one who just sold a LE without a reservation when so many are waiting for theirs for a couple of years now.

But I could always be wrong, who knows these days.

I agree that the motivation to just turn a profit is believable, but even with that, one has to be sitting on that much money and be willing to do the work to flip it. The chances of Rivian sending him an R1S at random without a reservation is low in my opinion...but it isn't impossible, so I make sure to say I don't believe rather than just claim its false/BS

 

[NashvilleR1S]

Hi that's my build I wouldve taken it.

 

[R1Sky Business]

Inside job!!!

 

[Count Orlok]

If true, I wish Rivian would make me that offer if it meant getting an R1S now and not s00n.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

I doubt this is true. The way I read it this guy already OWNS an R1T and Rivian reached out and random and just offered him an R1S out of the blue. That would be like Rivian just emailing me “hey Don how’s the truck? You want an SUV to go with it?”

 

[COdogman]

My guess is the guy had ordered an R1T and R1S at pre 3/1 pricing and now that he got the S, he decided to sell (his right to do so), and made up the story about which pricing he got to avoid looking like he’s flipping it for a big profit. If you believe his story as told he looks like a good person who’s just trying to pass along an S at little profit.

 

[Texasag05]

My guess is the guy had ordered an R1T and R1S at pre 3/1 pricing and now that he got the S, he decided to sell (his right to do so), and made up the story about which pricing he got to avoid looking like he’s flipping it for a big profit. If you believe his story as told he looks like a good person who’s just trying to pass along an S at little profit.

I agree

 

[Guy]

I agree

So he altered the pricing sheet?

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