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Monday, February 10, 2020

Very difficult to buy a Tesla Certified car

3 days ago on Friday morning at about 9AM I saw 2 Tesla certified cars about 400 miles away. There was no phone number to call. Only 2 choices.

1 pay a deposit
2 Request a call back with your name, email address and phone number.

I had questions and so I submitted a request for call back.

As of now, no acknowledgement even by email that I wanted call back. No call back.

Is this typical?

Here is update. At about Noon on Monday I received a voice mail regarding the car. By then I had my car repaired and I was wondering if I should delay buying another car given the slow response by Tesla and new models such as Ford Mach E, Rivian R1s looking very attractive.

On Wednesday night almost 4 full working days from the time I contacted Tesla, I received email with phone number to contact.

As a sharp contrast, when I bought Lexus certified car last time, I saw the car was available 1hr away. Called at 9AM on a Saturday. Paid cash and drove home the car by lunch time. In this case if Tesla answered on phone all my questions on Friday morning and followed up with email immediately, I could have flown on Friday and if I liked the car, I would have driven back 6 hr 400 miles.

Is your Vizio smart TV suddenly turning on at night?

My setup was Vizio M 558 TV and Onkyo Avr TX-NR-626.

I enabled ARC only on the Vizio TV. Connected a Roku box, a bluray player to the TV.
On the Onkyo Avr I had to enable CEC AND ARC AUTO.

TV was suddenly turning On at random during the day or night. I called Vizio support and the only suggestion was to toggle power mode from Eco to Quck Sar and back to Eco. It did not help.

I found out that using chromecast built into Vizio or linking Vizio to Google Home requires power mode to be Quick Start.

Now there is no random turn On of the TV.