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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (14 children)

My mother bought me an NES when I was a child, and shortly after Nintendo lowered the price and they voluntarily refunded her the difference.

She told me years later that secured her as a Nintendo customer for my games for life.

This greed is disgusting, but more than anything it's depressing.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

i think you mean the store she bought it from refunded you the difference.

many retail outlets have 30 day price guarantees, sometimes 90.

Nobody was buying NES systems direct from Nintendo.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nintendo offered mail in rebates with proof of purchase back in the day. I have no idea if that applied to OPs story but it wasn’t the store offering the rebate in these cases

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