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Originally Posted by Quentin

Great post! I can't imagine them using the first86 as a benchmark for setting the price anyway because there is zero contractual obligation when you sign up. You'd have to figure that 20%, or less, of the people that sign up are honestly, truly in the position to buy this car at all, much less at their proposed timing. With the period only open 8 hrs and 6 minutes, you're further reducing the number of people that would actually, potentially buy the car. Basically, the only people signing up are the folks that have obsessively followed the car from day one and more often than not, those people aren't in the position to buy the car. It is noise data. They'd be insane to set the price based on noise data instead of the actual market research they've surely already done.

Yes and Yes.