“We just kept raising our offer until we finally got one,” said Wolfe. The vehicle was initially purchased for $210,000, netting the company a tidy $34,000 profit.
The Cybertruck sales contract stipulates that owners who sell will be fined $50,000 or “the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater.” This means the original seller risks losing the healthy profit they netted.
Fellow YouTuber DennisCW says he has asked several lawyers about whether this rule is enforceable, and many agree that it is not. “It says liquid damages, and it’s really hard to prove that with a resale. I don’t know if Tesla has actually gone after people [for this], but they have banned people from purchasing their vehicles. It might not be a good look for Tesla to sue a bunch of their customers,” he said.