By the same logic, Nintendo isn't entitled to a refund because they got what they paid for.
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Nintendo has become an awful company.
Stop supporting them.
Ok well I am never buying another Nintendo product again. Fuck them.
Nintendo told the court that “the doctrine of unjust enrichment does not apply when a party voluntarily pays a purchase price and receives a product in return.” Nintendo said plaintiffs “received exactly what they paid for: Nintendo products that Plaintiffs knowingly and voluntarily purchased at the advertised price. Nor is there anything ‘unjust’ about Nintendo retaining money that it may receive from the government as tariff refunds. The fact that Nintendo stands to receive tariff refunds does not give Plaintiffs any legal entitlement to those funds.”
I'm a lifelong Nintendo fan but this is robber baron speak. You don't blame the victim of price manipulation by telling them they deserve to pay unjust prices because they have no other choice than to pay unjust prices or go without. This is the type of shit medieval feudal lords would pull when oppressing peasants. This type of behavior doesn't belong in the 21st century.
This has been the true face of Nintendo all along...
Ferengi rules of acquisition.
- Once you have their money, you never give it back.
Nintendo aren't a good company but they no doubt lost sales due to the higher tariffs and I don't really blame them.
My opinion the tariffs are the US's own fault they shouldn't have voted in a moron.
They also don't know what the current US adminstration will do next. As soon as the tarrifs were struck down Trump implemented new ones. And the thing is that he wasn't even given as much as a stern talking to for implementing these illegal world affecting tarrifs. In other nations these would have been career ending.
In other nations, the leading government figure probably isn't kept in power by politicians that refuse to do their duty or citizens that stopped caring about facts when it was still legal to smoke on planes.
My opinion the tariffs are the US's own fault they shouldn't have voted in a moron.
Actually, the election was rigged in favor of Trump. He stole it. You just don’t hear about it because all he does is cover up shit and gut regulatory bodies while screaming about the left doing it first.
I'll say the same thing to you as I said to them back then. You have to provide proof for claims like that. I really want that to be true and something to be done about it but I need evidence first.
They provided the admission too
By their own logic, they don't have a right to tariff refunds either.
I hate comments like this. Nintendo paid an illegal tax, so they deserve a refund. Consumers got screwed by their government, not Nintendo.
Also, if you think the tariffs, AI, threat of more tariffs, Iran war, etc. haven't increases the cost of operations for businesses then you're not paying attention to current events.
They want to eat their cake, and have it to. Will capitalism benefit the capitalists like it does 99.99% of the time? You bet your sweet ass it will!
99.99% of the time, it works every time!
I'm reminded of how Disney pulled most of their movie ideas from the public domain, and then pushed hard to try to extend copyright so that none of their movies would ever enter the public domain themselves.
Board the ship, then pull up the ladder
I mean, not quite the same logic. The tariffs that Nintendo paid were deemed illegal. The price consumers paid was not deemed to be illegal. At least, not yet, as the case is ongoing.
I'm sure their logic would also say "When we raised prices, fewer people bought our stuff, so we already paid the price." Or something skeezy like that.
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My mother bought me an NES when I was a child, and shortly after Nintendo lowered the price and they voluntarily refunded her the difference.
She told me years later that secured her as a Nintendo customer for my games for life.
This greed is disgusting, but more than anything it's depressing.
i think you mean the store she bought it from refunded you the difference.
many retail outlets have 30 day price guarantees, sometimes 90.
Nobody was buying NES systems direct from Nintendo.
Nintendo offered mail in rebates with proof of purchase back in the day. I have no idea if that applied to OPs story but it wasn’t the store offering the rebate in these cases
back then they did, I doubt any have it now.
Hell, walmart wont even price match its own website... and like or hate walmart, thats the cheapest place in town to get shit so thats where most people, especially in this economy, will be shoppin.
Not only that, walmart won't even do price adjustments anymore. they got rid of that about 3 or 4 years ago.
It used to be if you bought an item and the price fell within 14 days of purchase you could do a price adjustment on it. Now if you give the reason it's cheaper as a reason for the return, they will refuse to do the exchange full stop.
it's stupid because their return policy is still 90 days on most items, so you can just.... return the item as a change mind, and then go and buy a brand new unopened one off the shelf for the reduced price.... so not only are they out the money anyway but they also now have to sell or claims out a used product and are down a new unopened product ontop of it.
Amazon doesn't do it anymore either, they used to offer price adjustments on anything within 30 days of purchase as long as you contact customer support. Now they force you to return the item and buy it again.
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I was like, 5 when it happened, so I've never confirmed it, and my mother is definitely the kind of person who would misremember this kind of thing, but from what she claims she called them directly because they dropped the MSRP, not just a store price drop.
Take it with a grain of salt though.
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IMO I think it's weird to focus specifically on Nintendo. The American government basically screwed over its populace and a ton of foreign companies (less sympathy for the former though). I don't think it's realistic to expect these companies to reimburse companies, because logistically it'd be a nightmare. The only way I can imagine consumers getting their money back is if the government used the tarrif money to pay a portion of the federal income tax for its citizens, ideally the lower tax vracket. Unfortunately that won't happen.
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I don't like Nintendo, and even here they totally failed their communication because there was 100 ways to put this more user-friendly, but they are right in not issuing refunds. Things can go on sale, you don't go and ask for refund because you bought it a few months before at full price and sue companies for not telling you in advance there will be sale, when and for how much discount.
Nintendo being anti-consumer is no surprise, but it's nice to see someone tried to hold them to account.
So glad I personally didn't buy a Switch 2.
The alternative being.. not paying and still getting it, Nintendo??
Or would you rather no one buy or play games from you? I did that a long time ago.
Nintendo had long since realized that their customers are kids who see Pokemon and Mario and scream at their parents until they buy it for them. They can charge whatever they whatever they want and those kids will still bug their parents until they get it.
Everyone else that buys their products is just a bonus if they still keep buying even after the prices get jacked up. Nintendo made their decision about who to prioritize, and the only boycott that would work to turn things around would have to be orchestrated by all the parents of all the 6 year olds in the world, and I doubt that'll happen.
They've ALWAYS sucked but had a very friendly face. Remember how they tried to ban renting in North America? They failed to do so for games, but they got their filthy clutches on the manuals so game shops weren't allowed to rent those out. They didn't need to do that but they did just to make the experience a little bit worse for us consumers.
Having said that... The US kinda fucked up themselves, so I'm not sure why Nintendo is being singled out.
Nintendo is being singled out because they're withholding the tariff refunds for tariffs they never paid and passed on to the customers. When the tariffs were imposed, no one really blamed Nintendo and knew it was the Administration's fault. If Nintendo didn't want sales to drop because of higher prices, they could have eaten the additional tariff cost until it all got sorted out. Had they done this, then they'd be entitled to that tariff refund money. Instead they passed on the tariff cost to customers, which sucks for customers but was really the only sensible thing Nintendo could have done given the circumstances, and most people aren't really blaming Nintendo on that decision. But now Nintendo is trying to have it both ways, not pay any of the tariffs and keep all of the tariff refunds which is why they're being singled out. It's pure greed on their part with blatant disrespect to their customers.
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I never played more Nintendo games in a year and I didn‘t pay for a single one!
By Nintendo’s logic they have no right to your money.
I play my Steam Deck more than I play my Switch 2.
Likewise. The Switch 2 is a very nice handheld, but it doesn’t hold a candle to having a never-locked-down x86 PC in your hands.
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Now that Nintendo greed is fully out in the open I hope a lot of their fans leave. The relationship should be symbiotic, not parasitic.
I doubt the majority of the nintendo customers are going to care to be honest. The only people that really got screwed were people who missed the train on buying the switch two and decided to finally jump on board after they raised the prices by 40$ in response to the tariffs.
If you were a nintendo fan, you likely bought the switch 2 at launch or soon after, which was long before the tariff price increase. And general game prices didn't really jump in any meaningful number as a response to it.,
Not saying that I think those customers who did spend more on it shouldn't get a refund but, I do think that the majority of nintendo fans are either unaffected, or the amount wouldn't be worth chasing. I highly doubt this instance will be the deciding factor on many fans for a "yea fuck Nintendo I'm out" reaction. There are far worse things that Nintendo has done that I think would have caused it prior.
I doubt the majority of nintendo customers will be aware of this
You have a symbiotic relationship with a capitalist‽
Only in the case that I give him some of my valuable money and he provides me with something of equal value, that I want. We both walk away happy, not rubbing our hands together with avaricious glee thinking "I really screwed that fucker!".
valuable money
⇒in fiat debt
Honey, relearn how you're both stolen to. Your IOU vochers only paid 日本銀行。
Nintendo: Just don't buy anything from these assholes anymore.
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