Don’t forget how many transactions have been impacted by the tarrifs. Hell we lost on some fixed price jobs at my work because we priced things before the tarrifs went in and by the time we ordered we were basically paying to finish a promised job. People need not be mad at Nintendo, this issue was caused by the pedophile in chief.
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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“The common thread among Plaintiffs’ claims is that it is somehow ‘unfair’; that Nintendo has not retroactively adjusted its prices for completed sales in response to the outcome of the tariff litigation,” Nintendo’s statement continues, adding that this is “not how commercial transactions work.”
Then why the fuck would Nintendo themselves get a refund?
innermachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
People need not be mad at Nintendo
You don’t hate Nintendo hard enough.
innermachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nintendo has a special place in my heart because of the game cube, but yea their slime now. I equate them to Disney in terms of lawsuiting people and shit. But no, the tariff shit isn’t their fault lol
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
People need not be mad at Nintendo, this issue was caused by the pedophile in chief.
I’m in total agreement here, except for the fact that this is a separate issue. Nintendo didn’t bring about the tariffs but they are the ones asking for the refund and deciding not to give it back to the people who paid that money in the first place, so while they aren’t to blame for the tariffs, they are to blame for keeping the tariff refunds.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Because they were charged a tax they shouldn’t have been charged. A buyer agreed to the price at retail. A lot of people can probably spot the difference.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, like Cards Against Humanity spotted the difference and decided to not be anti-consumer asshats.
fastcompany.com/…/tariff-refund-cards-against-hum…
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Have they actually done so and has it been effective? I doubt so. Unless you are d2c this is an enormous effort that may not be worth it. Even then you incurred costs and insecurities hence probably can’t afford to be overly generous unless you are demanding much more money than your service costs to provide.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, moving goalposts now I see. CAH has provided the forms to submit your receipt and get your refund and go ask about how effective it is yourself because I wasn’t agreeing about effectiveness.
I’m simply arguing that there are companies that are trying to be decent companies and pro-consumer, not arguing about the effectiveness of their pro-consumer stance.
While we’re at it let’s just get your whataboutism that you’ll also try to pull out of the way, yes most corporations will also not be making any moves to refund their customers when they get their illegal tariffs refunded not that also makes them anti-consumer asshats.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Your doubts are stupid, you’re stupid
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They agreed to the tax by paying it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
So did Nintendo.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That is what they said.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
And Nintendo didn’t pay the higher rate. They passed the costs over to the consumer. Nintendo got exactly what they paid for.
MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nintendo got exactly what they didn’t pay for and they’re getting the refund for it too.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I agree that there is a clear legal distinction, but it leaves a sour taste. Nintendo should have made this right for PR.
Though, on the other side of it, Stargate project is the reason DRAM prices went to the moon, so USA suffering a little is schadenfreude for me and probably Nintendo too.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Ha! Hahaha! Haha! When the fuck has Nintendo ever worried about PR? They’ve got their place in the market completely on lock and will open litigation against anyone and everyone who even looks at their IP in a way they don’t like. Nintendo could release a console that required a pint of blood every time you boot it up, and as long as a Zelda comes out on it, they’ll still sell out.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They did those things, and also gave early 3DS owners a bunch of free games for buying the console during a bad period.
Nintendo are fickle, but this seems like the type of PR thing they’d of been in to.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d say this argument probably doesn’t apply to something like, say, food. People can’t just opt out of eating. They can change their luxury spending to stuff that’s cheaper and doesn’t have to get imported.
I’d definitely like for this argument to be applied in Nintendo’s case, and I’ll be pleasantly surprised if a judge agrees, I guess I’m a little pessimistic though. Maybe I just have a low view of the justice system right now.
MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thinking of it as movie tickets, I guess it’d be like if there was suddenly an illegal tax being imposed on every theater to charge an extra 20% per ticket. A customer’s $20 ticket becomes $24 and the theater makes up for it by passing that cost 1 to 1 onto the customer. The tax is struck down as illegal and as such the theater sues the government for that $4 per ticket.
Thinking of it this way I think it’s strange the theater is suing the government for that $4. The theater chose to upcharge for the same tickets despite the fact that they otherwise would have earned near exactly the same amount otherwise. At best I think they should be suing not for the $4/ticket but lost revenue that would have been incurred from the price increase imposed by the government.
By making headlines that they’re suing for that $4/ticket it naturally would give customers the impression that they’re entitled to at least a portion of that given the customers are the ones who actually paid that $4/ticket. The theater would have had a negligible difference in costs for operations, real estate, supplies, wages, etc during the period that tax was being imposed, so in theory they should have remained almost exactly as profitable as before, except only that the customer would have $4 less to potentially spend on anything else with their ticket.