--- title: "If You Try to Sell Your Cybertruck, You Are Going to Get a Terrible Surprise" description: "Folks who shelled out to buy Elon Musk's ugliest electric car are in for an upset should they try to sell or trade those Cybertrucks." date: "2025-08-11" modified: "2025-08-11" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/sell-cybertruck-surprise" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "cybertruck" - "elon musk" - "tesla" - "used cars" --- # If You Try to Sell Your Cybertruck, You Are Going to Get a Terrible Surprise ![Folks who shelled out to buy Elon Musk's ugliest electric car are in for an upset should they try to sell or trade those Cybertrucks.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Folks who shelled out to buy Elon Musk's [ugliest electric car]() are in for an upset should they try to sell or trade in those Cybertrucks. As [flagged by *Gizmodo*](), the CarGurus vehicle marketplace and analytics firm found that over the last year, the [value of a used Cybertruck]() has plummeted more than 30 percent, to an average of roughly $84,000. And with [recent price cuts]() putting the Long Range Cybertruck, Tesla's entry-level version of its matte steel monstrosity, at just under $70,000, any potential buyers could just grab a brand new one instead. Add that to how shoddily made these electric geometric behemoths have proven to be since their [late 2023 launch](), and any Cybertruck drivers with buyer's remorse find themselves in a cruel bind: hang onto their lemon as it devalues further, or lose a bundle trying to unload it. Indeed, in an "as-told-to" editorial from April of this year, luxury car dealer [George Saliba told *Business Insider*]() that he had been shocked to watch the resale value of Cybertrucks plummet so significantly in the 16 months since it had been released. Whereas "athletes, famous people," and general status-seekers used to be the ones buying the Tesla trucks from his New Jersey dealership, Saliba said that as of this past spring, it felt like he could not "sell a Cybertruck to save my life." "People started giving me middle fingers," the car dealer detailed. "My friend called me and said, 'I gotta sell my Cybertruck. Someone just threw a rock at me while I was driving, my kids were in the backseat.'" That same month, a YouTuber who goes by the handle "[Dirty Tesla]()" [posted on X]() that he was furious to find that his Cybertruck was valued at only $54,000, down nearly 50 percent from what he paid for it. In response, the person running the Cybertruck account — we can't help but wonder if it might be the company's [boorish CEO]()[,]()[ Elon Musk]() — attempted to make a joke of the whole thing. "One more post like this," [the account responded](), "and you will be getting $0 when I do an Irish exit in the middle of the night." Adding insult to injury, the Cybertruck's shoddy resale value seems to be a reflection, *Giz* notes, of just how poorly [America's most unpopular car]() has performed in new sales. In its most recent report, Cox Automotive's [Kelley Blue Book found]() that Cybertruck sales were down nearly 51 percent year-over-year from the second quarter in 2024 — and with only about 4,300 selling in Q2 of this year, those figures are pretty bad indeed. Naturally, this problem isn't exclusive to Cybertrucks. In that same CarGurus data, Tesla values were down 13.56 percent year-over-year to roughly $28,000. What's worse: in the last three months alone, the Musk-owned EV company's value has dropped 4.3 percent, bringing the cars from just under $29,000 to its current low hovering around the $28K-mark. As usual, one can take their pick of reasons why Cybertrucks are selling for so cheap. Is it the [many](), [many headlines]() about how often the cars [malfunction]() and [fall apart]()? Is it the Tesla owner's [ever-decreasing popularity]()? Or might people simply be [buying cars less]() as we continue to hurdle headlong into a recession that Musk and his erstwhile boss [stoked from the very start]() of this year? **More on Cybertrucks:** [*The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()