Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid advertised prices and got working consoles. European buyers absorbed the same increases but there is no European tariff refund, because there was no European tariff.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all arguing in American courts that they should not have to pass tariff refunds back to the people who bought their consoles, Business Insider reported.
Sony’s lawyers told a court on Monday that buyers “suffered no cognizable injury because they voluntarily paid the advertised prices for the consoles and received exactly what they paid for“. They also said the plaintiffs had not plausibly alleged that tariffs caused the increases.
Microsoft put it more bluntly. “He paid for it, he received it, and he continues to use it,” its filing said of...
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