[thomaskcr]

Yeah, and then if you under reserve on warranty costs and stuff repairs into "goodwill" under Services/Other, people who don't know better will go on the internet and talk about how it's fine for the company to not have an overall profit because your margin is 20% even though you spend a good amount fixing cars you already sold because quality control is poor.

And to answer the other responder's response about Amazon - Amazon raised money twice, totaling $108M. Tesla is still raising money $20B later, they are funding their efforts primarily off investors not their own operations.