Normally, a company at least tries to give you a good impression when they're trying to sell you something, and then the crappy experience comes after they've sold you a product. Nope, not with Tesla Energy. The crappy experience comes from the beginning.
I got an email on August 10 from Tesla asking me to RSVP to an event to learn more about Tesla Energy. "Sure, why not," I thought. I RSVP, and get an email confirming the RSVP. A few days later, on August 14, I get a text message inviting me to RSVP to an event to learn more about Tesla Energy. "Huh? Didn't I already RSVP to this?" I thought. I double check my email, and it's for the same event on the same date. I text back and say I already RSVPed. I'm told that the RSVP in their system is for an event that happened in July, that I never RSVPed for and that I never attended, because it was in California. I send a screenshot of my RSVP confirmation and say that I'm confused because I never RSVPed nor attended any event in July. I get a call from the guy who says he can't see screenshots via text and asks me to email him. So he sends me an email, I reply back with screenshots of the invitation email and my RSVP. I never hear back from him.
The event is on August 17, at the Tesla showroom clear across town, so it takes me about 40 minutes to get there due to some mild traffic. The email gives no detail other than it's a Tesla Energy event from 9am-11am. I assume they'll have Tesla Energy reps that I could ask questions of, and maybe they'll have some beverages or snacks. I arrive around 9:30am, and the place is empty. The one Tesla employee up front asks if he can help me, and I tell him I'm here for the Tesla Energy event and he says they already started the 9am presentation and that I would have to wait for the 10am presentation. OK.
So I wait until 10am, and nothing. Around 10:15am, people start filtering out of the room they did the presentation in. I walk in and sit down at a folding table and see people asking the Tesla Energy people some questions. I wait for another 10 minutes, and the people in the room seem to have zero intention of starting any presentation. I go up and ask a Tesla Energy person when the 10am presentation is going to start, and he says there is no 10am presentation. He says I was given wrong information and that there is just one presentation at 9am, and that the email shouldn't have given an end time since it's just the one presentation at 9am that just turns into a Q&A session.
At this point, I'm quite frustrated, since it seems I have just wasted two hours of my time, plus at least another half hour to drive back home. The guy seemed sympathetic and asked if he could answer any questions. We chatted for a bit, and I decided to pay the $100 refundable deposit to go forward with the quote.
I get an email saying I need to go into my Tesla account to upload my bill. So I do that the very same day. There is an option to connect directly to my NV Energy account and the Tesla website says that's the best way, so I do that. I get an email saying Jahn will be my advisor and my one point of contact for Tesla Energy.
Three days later, on August 20, I get an email from Tesla saying I still need to upload my energy bill and to log into my Tesla account to do so. I log in, and the website says I have no action items outstanding and there are no options for me to upload a bill. I take screenshots of the email and my Tesla account and email Jahn, saying I'm confused as to what I need to do.
She emails me back and says that Tesla didn't get my bill and that I need to upload it. Clearly, she didn't look at the screenshots I provided.
I email her back saying that I linked Tesla to my NV Energy account since Tesla said that was the best way, and I asked if she could check on that method. She emails me back saying they didn't get the information and that I need to upload a bill.
So I'm still frustrated at this point, and I ask to get my $100 deposit back. No response. Over 48 hours later, on August 23, still no response. I send another email, asking, "Hello?" and then I get a phone call immediately.
She says I sent her some Excel files that she can't use and that I need to provide my NV Energy bill. I tell her she must be confusing me with someone else because I never sent her Excel files. She says she needs to check, and then says that it wasn't me. She says she never looked at the screenshots. I tell her that is obvious based on her responses. I tell her that I don't have much confidence that this process is going to go smoothly or well at all, based on all the negative reviews of Tesla and how poorly my own experience has been going, even before getting a quote.
She then tries to tell me that she wanted to understand why I wanted to get my $100 back.
And apparently Yelp has a character limit, so I can't write more. Just know it went even further downhill from there. read more