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Definitely but I think goes into the marketing/advertising category. But either way almost every other car company has an end sales person used to jack up the price, while tesla can sell cars at a fixed price off a website. And this is solely because of the perceived quality of the product.


My point is that Tesla can lose money on every sale. Other companies don't have that luxury, and so need salespeople.




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