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Nintendo sued by players who say they should get any tariff refunds received by the US government (www.gamefile.news)
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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.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

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.