Comments on: Xiaomi defends early payment requests, says it only applies to select high-risk car buyers https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/13/xiaomi-defends-early-payment-requests-says-it-only-applies-to-select-high-risk-car-buyers/ China Auto News Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Needles Balloon https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/13/xiaomi-defends-early-payment-requests-says-it-only-applies-to-select-high-risk-car-buyers/#comment-639300 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:49:25 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=234482#comment-639300 With up to ~300,000 locked in orders accumulated over only the first 3 days, and less than 10k of those delivered, would there not be at least one other customer order of that exact same configuration available for delivery? If we disregard easily swappable wheels, there's not that many configuration permutations.
Xiaomi really doesn't have to do this; if someone starts one of those 'black marketing' campaigns over this, they deserve the reputation loss.

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