Terms

This site is run by Houston, a person in Arkansas, not a company. There is no LLC behind it. Paying does not make you a partner, an employee, an investor, or an owner of the car.

Tesla, Roadster, and the related marks belong to Tesla, Inc. They did not make this, they do not endorse it, and they are not getting the money. The name is used so you know which car the receipt is for.

A pledge with a name, a logo, or a link is a payment to be listed. It is sponsorship, not a gift, not a charitable donation, and not tax deductible. It is not a security and it is not a share of anything.

A pledge only counts as paid after a payment processor confirms the charge. Until that processor is connected, an entry on this preview is practice. It does not take money from a card.

You have to be 18 or older, and you have to be allowed to spend the money.

You are buying a place on a public board, and maybe a spot for a name or a logo on the car if the car is actually purchased and you still hold that spot when it is wrapped.

You are not buying the car, a piece of the title, a ride, or a promise that Tesla will sell one. If Tesla never sells the car, or the price makes the purchase impossible, the wrap does not happen. The receipt says what the money was collected to cover.

A wrap covers the other logos on the paint. It does not cover The Hype Man, which is the name of whoever has brought in the most money through their link. That plate is a nickname on the car, not a cash prize and not a payment. Panel spots are real counts: two door sills, two rockers, two quarters, two doors, one hood, one roof. An open slot is the posted price. Steal spot appears only when every slot of that panel is held, and then the raise is $250 over the cheaper holder. The public number-one spot on the leaderboard is one dollar over the biggest single pledge, and it is not a panel.

Losing a spot is not a refund and it is not a promise that you can have it back. The only way onto a full panel is to outbid it. Nothing holds your place. Nothing guarantees you will win the next one. If two people send the same pledge at the same moment, one of them gets the slot and the other does not. The site takes them one at a time. The loser is told, nothing of theirs is saved, and they can try the new price or pledge with no panel. The same rule applies to the wrap. Two wraps cannot land together. On the leaderboard, the same dollar amount keeps the older pledge ahead.

A logo on the car happens only if the car is actually bought, you still hold that spot when it is painted, and the car maker and the law allow the paint. If Tesla, a dealer, or a rule blocks a wrap or a logo, that is not a refund by itself. The money stays in the fund. A refund of unused money happens only if the whole project is called off before a car is purchased.

Losing a spot is not a refund. The money still counts toward the car.

If the project is called off before a car is purchased, people get back the charge minus the fee the payment company will not return. Houston does not add his own money to make a refund match the number on the button. That is the only way a refund does not come out of his pocket. Once the car is purchased, that money has been spent and it is not refunded. A chargeback can cost a dispute fee on top of the lost charge. Nobody can promise that a refund, a bank, or a court will cost him zero.

A chargeback does not take the listing down by itself. It does mark the pledge as unpaid if the processor claws the money back.

The prices, taxes, insurance, and wrap line are estimates so the goal is not a fantasy. They are not a tax filing and they are not advice. If the October reveal prints a different sticker, the goal changes on this page, in public.

Money that lands here is expected to be taxable income to Houston personally. The tax lines exist so that bill does not eat the car. An LLC is not required to receive it, and forming one would not make the tax disappear.

You can list a name, a business you have the right to represent, a site, or an X handle. You are promising the logo and the words are yours to use. No sexual content, no scams, no impersonation, no malware.

A listing that breaks that can be taken off the board. The money stays in the fund. The site can also refuse a pledge before it is shown.

The board is public. Do not put a phone number, an address, or anything you would not say out loud in the shoutout.

Referral names, including The Hype Man, are recognition on the page and on the car. They are not a cash prize, not a lottery, and not a cut of anyone's pledge. This site does not pay the referrer. The name moves when someone else's link brings in more money. It is whoever holds it when the car is painted, and only if a car is painted.

These are the rules of the site, written in plain language. They are not a lawyer's opinion, they are not a court ruling, and they do not make the operator immune. A judge in Arkansas or anywhere else can still disagree. Disputes are handled under Arkansas law. If a line here conflicts with a payment processor's own terms, the processor's terms govern the charge and these rules govern the listing.