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So remind me how much the Switch 2 retailed for while the tariffs were in place and how much it retails for now?
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.
Like getting Al Capone on tax evasion, I'll take it.
How did your company lose hundreds of thousands if they passed them onto the customer? If you made the customer pay, your company has the money and can pass on the money you get from the government to your consumers
We've sold maybe a 10th of what we sold pre-tariffs. W have probably lost closer to million in sales due to the tariffs. Customer's aren't buying parts for preventative maintenance, they only purchase when it's an emergency and they are losing tens of thousands of dollars an hour in production. US manufacturing is in trouble.
So the years you have good sales did you ever pass the extra earnings on to the customer?
€hareholders,baby!
Okay? Not sure why your sales numbers make any difference. Of what your company did sell, you raised the price to cover the tariffs. You did not pay them, your customers did, so if a refund for those tariffs falls into your hands, you should pass it on to the customers that paid them. Having a shitty year sales wise doesn't magically make that refund yours.
The whole point is that the economies of scale don't work to pay your staff and fixed costs at lower numbers. The damage is nonreversible, like economy studies show when you have uncertainty on the market.
You don't sell the same amount of product when you have to increase the price. You may need to shrink your business to not get the remaining margin getting eaten up by operational costs.
Oh yeah, our sales have tanked this year due to the tarrifs. Customers keep asking us to find ways to avoid tariffs, but the parts are MADE IN GERMANY
I wonder why they chose Nintendo. To base this class action off of. They could have chosen any company to go after, like Walmart or Apple.
Because Walmart doesn't sue their customers for using buying and improving upon their products.
Nintendo bites the hand that feeds. Treats their biggest fans like piles of subhuman garbage. Short of Nestlé, very few companies deserve a taste of their own medicine more than Nintendo. Fuck them.
Edit: And they've been this way for as along as I can remember. Back in the early 90s, Nintendo tried to sue to stop Game Genie from becoming a thing. Sega, on the other hand, made it an officially licensed product! Nintendo has never had any chill. I wish they were the ones that lost the console war instead of Sega. They don't deserve to be as popular and beloved as they are.
Because Nintendo have been litigious cunts the past few years and it's poetic justice?
Because they're gamers, not Walmart customers. It's literally the first two words
Heh. Yeah right. They passed that tariff cost on to you but no way will they pass the refund on.
Hence the reason of the the lawsuit
Good luck with that. It may take ten years and result in a huge settlement which each individual consumer will get less than a dollar back. The lawyers will certainly make the most.
They won’t get less than a dollar; they’ll get a coupon toward additional purchase from the sued company.
Class action is only about punishing the company and not minding that lawyers will pocket all the proceeds.
The way Nintendo prices things a $5 off coupon is gold. I bought my kid a Legion Go instead of a switch. He can actually pay Forza on it vs Mario kart.
We should do a blanket class action lawsuit against all corporations throughout history, demanding all the wages they owe, refunds for the prices they gouged, and the artificially created inflation.
Or they could settle by paying for worldwide universal healthcare and UBI.
Nah. Seize the means, comrade.
Fuck settling. Every time we’ve settled with the capitalists they just claw everything back 10 years later. We need to permanently make them extinct.
You gotta bide your time. Can't build your forces when you are busy scraping for food. Make them think you are satisfied with the minimum, and prepare in the meantime. UBI doesn't mean people don't work; it means they can work for what they want to work for.
Let’s see more of this.
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.
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.
I quit gaming. It’s in a shitty state so why bother?
Gaming is better than ever, what are you talking about? So many good Indie games. If you have a mid range desktop pc from the past decade, there's a whole world of games to play. You'll never be able to play them all! Just forget about the AAA games. Fuck those.
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.
Its even messier. Nintendo is a customer of the companies that produce the discrete parts, and paid tarriffs on them. Then they sell to a retailed at wholesale who sells to the consumer. The retailer may or may not also have paid a tarrif on the finished product. So what waa the final retail proce composed of? How much of it was Nintendo's? How much of it was.... Say.... Walmart? Who is on the hook for it for the consumer?
What a fucking mess.
What is the logic behind giving a company money for the tariffs? The costs were invariably passed to the consumer, so how does paying the company make any sense?
The logic was “these companies ate the cost” and when confronted with the fact that prices went up and the costs had been passed on to consumers, the clarification they provided was “nuh uh”.
Friendly reminder that the Boston Tea Party was about tariffs. We know what works.
