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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It is likely a fake story.

  1. The E-Scooter would have needed to hit that Cybertruck at like MACH 3 to do enough damage to warrant a total loss.
  2. He can refuse the total loss and demand they do repairs ... yes, that is an option.
  3. The article is adding a $50k delivery fee to the value of the vehicle. This guy allegedly agreed to pay and finance Fifty Thousand Dollars to have a car delivered ... everyone involved in doing this could be considered stupid.
  4. There is no way this guy is stupid enough to not have Gap coverage (unless he is MAGA, then I take it back).

In a case like this the guy would have insurance over a barrel. He could turn down the total loss and demand repairs for so many reasons; The total loss is financially ruinous He could claim an emotional impact is involved in losing the vehicle and it needs repaired.

If this story is true, no one is dumb enough (except MAGA) to just accept the total loss payout and not sue the insurance company.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

MAGA is 70+mil people in the US and intelligence is less of a steep climb after that and more of painful, barely perceptible slope toward eventual mediocrity. As for the E-Scooter, you’d be amazed how easy it is to damage a Cybertruck, and remember that total losses are connected more to repair costs than anything and these heaps of garbage can be very expensive to repair properly. Whether or not the guy challenges them on it I do not doubt that they easily could have declared it a total loss.

I feel like, at this point, if you say “no one could be that dumb” then you are using yourself to prove that they absolutely could be. It could even be fake in the end but you’re not right if you stumbled upon the correct answer using deeply flawed logic and got lucky.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, I "stumbled" onto the answer because I have 4 years of total loss specialty appraisal experience and know exactly what I'm talking about.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And yet, if you look at my comment, I was specifically talking about how the last decade has been marked by people saying “no one could be that dumb” and then watching them all be that dumb and here you are, repeating history. So, job specific experience not required.

And aside from that I know people with decades of career experience who are dumber than rocks and barely squeak by simply because our society is a farce. I’ll say that’s probably not you, but it’s far from impossible.

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