Two gamers have filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging that the company will be unjustly enriching itself with any refund it secures from the U.S. government over widespread tariffs last year that, among other things, hiked the prices of Nintendo hardware and accessories.
“Unless restrained by this Court, Nintendo stands to recover the same tariff payments twice—once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds, including interest paid by the government on those funds,” the suit states.
Nintendo: you know what? Fuck you. Our prices just went up for you. Games are $120 now. Fuck you, you’ll still buy our pokemon slop we spent 0 effort making. Mario? Yep, $120, but now when he jumps he says “fucka youuuu!” You’ll still buy it, because Mario.
You reminded me of a b rated movie about some old coots in NY. There’s a kid who says that to anything anyone says to him.
a b rated movie about some old coots in NY.
What, you mean this?
1974 Law and Disorder - free on YouTube
I was really just trying to be funny by mentioning the film Nintendo would like everyone to forget, which also happened to vaguely meet your description, but thank you for telling me the correct one.
I quit gaming. It’s in a shitty state so why bother?
Like everything else Trump does this too was a grift by him to funnel money to the rich. He should be a part of this law suit.
He’s criminally protected from any official acts while in office, remember?
(A Supreme Court decision made during Biden’s term, it should be noted - he was also criminally protected from any consequences of his official acts as president, and they specifically gave the example of a president using Seal Team Six to assassinate their political rivals. Biden didn’t even try using that power against Trump in any way. Assassination was probably off the table lmao but he could’ve done extrajudicial surveillance or such. He didn’t, because they’re all owned by the same oligarchs and Zionazis.)
And a civil lawsuit would be paid by… the taxpayers.
You don’t get to win when the other side makes the rules. You have to stop playing the game, or get as close as you can.
We won’t see a cent of the money stolen from us by Donald Trump and his gang of pedophiles.
My company lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in tarrifs. We passed those on to the customer since we couldn’t take a 50% hike on costs.
We have no way to refund money we don’t have.
Honestly, everyone needs to just cut the loss and move on. At least on the monetary front. Trump should see repercussions for enacting an illegal tax.
You want to move on, like a coward or progressive. I want a war queen that bears grudges for generations.
We are not the same.
I said specifically monetarily. There is no winning that fight. Either way we pay and end up giving even more money to capitalist class.
Wrong. Have you seen the warehouse fires? We have been “moving on” from every injustice we’ve experienced for our entire lives. Its past time to put your civility to bed and become the gremlins the government fears.
Get mad. Break shit. Burn down the fucking bourgeois bullshit. Throw a dildo at a cop. Piss on your local politician.
Whatever you do, DO NOT BE COMPLICIT.
That’s exactly why I said monetary in the context of these tariffs. You’re not reading what I’ve actually written, your putting a lot of added meaning that isn’t there. String up the traitors, but suing the government or company for tariff money is not going to work.
Not with that attitude.
Do you know how much money is lost by workers every year on “use it or lose it” vacation systems? Its hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. And do you know what you can do to get that money back? Launch a fucking lawsuit.
Do not give up. Do not become complicit in your apathy. Fight in ALL venues, be that taxes, courts, or in the streets.
None of that has to do with tariffs. You’re still not reading what I wrote. Work on reading comprehension and then come back.
Let’s see more of this.
I think it’s presumptuous to assume that the increase in prices that just happened to be identical to the tarrifs had anything to do with the tarrifs.
Customers should get the refunds as this is business already transacted. Nintendo should get a “loss of potential sales” award due to it being priced out for many consumers, due to the tariffs. How that number would be determined is best left to people smarter than me.
I’m curious to see how this will go.
My guess is: When the products were sold, the price was simply higher and the tariffs not mentioned on the invoices. Customer did not pay taxes themselves, they agreed to pay a high price. Of course everyone knew why, but I doubt a capitalistic country like the US will rule in favor of the customers here, unfortunately.
Here is the thing. If they win, it’s great for them. However, all the other companies are currently updating their legal documents to reflect that they will get any forms of reimbursement and not be passing them on to the consumer. Not only that, but they are not planning on reducing the price of any of the products. So, even if the tariffs dissappear, they still win.
The only way to win the game is to not play it.
I’m curious… what legal documents would these be? You don’t have to sign a Terms of Service to buy a physical product. The unjust enrichment claim is just as valid/invalid unless stores like Walmart are going to start making you read a terms of sale agreement before entering the store.
That’s a terms of service/use for Amazon.com (so your account and purchase history), none of that applies to goods sold. This is entirely different than a purchase agreement that says they get to keep any government refunds.
So remind me how much the Switch 2 retailed for while the tariffs were in place and how much it retails for now?
all of this shit fuckery is a big win for lawyers ;)
How exactly was Nintendo unjustly enriching themselves. Sure it’s morally wrong. But legally? Nintendo is free to raise their prices, tariffs or no tariffs, it’s not price gouging since Nintendo products aren’t essential goods. And people are free to buy their products or not buy. That the government wants to give them a bag of money is a different matter from the price hike, if they want to sue someone sue the government.
Just because something is legal that doesn’t make it just.
Sure I did say it was morally wrong. But they are suing them under the framework of the current legal system. So if what Nintendo is doing is legal they got no chance of winning.
How exactly was Nintendo unjustly enriching themselves. Sure it’s morally wrong
Asked and answered
I mean, Nintendo probably does benefit, but I can’t see how there’s a case here.
The government does have an obligation not to impose illegal tariffs on importers.
Nintendo doesn’t have a legal obligation not to raise prices. They, as with pretty much any vendor, can charge whatever they want. You can’t win a court case unless they did something illegal.
What limits them from doing that is that they’ll lose sales, especially if competitors don’t.
Companies could have gambled on the tariffs being overturned in court (as they were) and eating the losses with the hopes of recovering them later. That’s a risk, but some companies did do that. They benefited from gaining sales from their competitors. Nintendo didn’t take that route; they probably lost sales, but they also avoided the issue of taking losses on a per-sale basis.
EDIT: Well…okay, if you could show that Nintendo tried to get the tariffs imposed and then overturned as some sort of intentional mechanism to cause many vendors to increase prices without incurring actual costs to themselves — which I am confident that they didn’t do, but using it as a hypothetical — you could maybe make some kind of antitrust case on price-fixing. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what the lawsuit is claiming, and in any event, what would be illegal there wouldn’t be collecting the refunds.
