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- games@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath. Though the Supreme Court has stymied the tariffs for the time being, the situation remains in flux for companies manufacturing goods outside the U.S. and sent stateside.
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Cool, but even if they win, none of that money is going back to the consumers who ultimately paid the price.
Important to note that many companies are, Nintendo is not uniquely taking on the government.
Given recent rulings, it seems like not suing right now might be equivalent to giving up free money. Why not ask for what you’re owed?
Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers, and consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.
Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers, and consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.
FWIW, Nintendo didn’t (because they got a bunch of Switch 2s into America before tariffs came into force).
Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers
Nintendo explicitly said they did. They opted not to increase the asking price of the Switch 2 but did increase the prices of the Switch 1 and accessories of both consoles to compensate.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/
No way any customers see refunds from that. I doubt there will even be price reductions with the tariffs no longer in place.
consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.
The only company I could maybe see doing this, though still unlikely, is Costco. Membership fees are ~2% of their revenue but ~70% of their profit, so they really do try hard to keep customers happy (since losing customers has the biggest impact on their profit).
Cards Against Humanity is one that I know of that is planning on offering back to customers, but they’re an odd case.
Oh we’ll see them, gonna be looting
insane, i read somewhere that trumps tariffs meant we as consumers pay an average of 1200 per year between everything for standard living, not even including tech…. i’m seeing prices of everything go up, but these companies are suing trump for their money, which is actually our money, and they won’t decrease prices after the fact? holy shit i’m holding onto my tech for years to come
Time for Mario to join Luigi
How are these companies able to open individual lawsuits? Wpuldnt this all be done as class actions accross all affected businesses?
It’s going to be a huge mess, and that’s before class-action suits from the people even get involved.
Oh boy, now they’re in trouble.
