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Why Nobody Wants To Buy a Cybertruck (Anymore)
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this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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You'd be surprised. I mean there are people today - retrocomputing enthusiasts - who pay insane amounts of money for 286, 386, 486 beige box PC garbage just because it's old and rare. Yeah it's rare: that's because it's crap and people my age couldn't wait to throw it in the trash. In retrospect, I should have kept all that garbage to sell to today's fools.
The Cybertruck too will be rare some day - for the same reason - and then it'll be worth a lot of money to collectors with more money than brains.
Sorry I don’t buy this argument. Maybe the first Tesla will be bought some day as a collection prize but the cyber dumpster, hardly.
People buy crappy beige PC because they are culturally significant, the cybertruck is not
That's what people of my generation used to say of crappy beige PC: trust me, in the eyes of this beholder, there's nothing LESS culturally significant than a beige PC of any era - all made in China, all the same, all boring to tears. And yet younger people of today marvel at that no-personality, mass-produced crap of yesteryear. Well, to each his own I guess...
And just by extrapolating what's happening with crappy PCs today, I guarantee you Cybertrucks will be hot collectors some day. They're shit, for sure. But they'll be yesterday's rare and interesting collectible shit to some young adult of tomorrow, to be bought for unjustifiable sums of money and lovingly restored.