<story><title>I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action</title><url>https://headmelted.com/i-bought-a-switch-from-nintendo-and-they-threatened-me-with-legal-action-6ea77b4f1eb9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;That&amp;#x27;s his mistake right there. He was under no moral obligation to fix Nintendo&amp;#x27;s mistake for them......If you truly have a guilty conscience, then just throw the extra package out, because it is abandoned property.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you really want to live in a world where everyone does this?&lt;p&gt;Imagine you are a small start-up where every penny counts and make the odd mistake here and there and people take advantage of that, destroying you.&lt;p&gt;Or imagine people are kind and help point out your mistake and give back your ~$500 device.&lt;p&gt;You get to decide which world you live in, because you are creating it.</text></item><item><author>apostacy</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Some will point out (and some have!) that I could have quite easily saved myself a lot of time, hassle, and lost earnings at this point by just quietly holding on to the extra Switch and saying nothing to Nintendo about it. It certainly would have saved me a lot of stress, but it was morally not something I’d ever consider.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s his mistake right there. He was under no moral obligation to fix Nintendo&amp;#x27;s mistake for them. Nintendo had made a string of mistakes up to this point, and one of their mistakes was in his favor.&lt;p&gt;If you truly have a guilty conscience, then just throw the extra package out, because it is abandoned property.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had this happen occasionally. Just know that you are not responsible for stuff like this. My Dad had a similar experience, where spent weeks trying to get a company to honor a warranty, and in the end they sent him two replacement hard drives instead of one. I actually interpret this as a kind of karma. Sometimes good things land in your lap, don&amp;#x27;t reject them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>I think this kind of thing really does depend on whether you&amp;#x27;re dealing with a small startup or even an individual human that you&amp;#x27;re screwing over, or a giant implacable machine like a multinational corporation.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no obligation to be nice to the machine, it can&amp;#x27;t recognise it, and it won&amp;#x27;t be grateful to you.</text></comment>
<story><title>I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action</title><url>https://headmelted.com/i-bought-a-switch-from-nintendo-and-they-threatened-me-with-legal-action-6ea77b4f1eb9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;That&amp;#x27;s his mistake right there. He was under no moral obligation to fix Nintendo&amp;#x27;s mistake for them......If you truly have a guilty conscience, then just throw the extra package out, because it is abandoned property.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you really want to live in a world where everyone does this?&lt;p&gt;Imagine you are a small start-up where every penny counts and make the odd mistake here and there and people take advantage of that, destroying you.&lt;p&gt;Or imagine people are kind and help point out your mistake and give back your ~$500 device.&lt;p&gt;You get to decide which world you live in, because you are creating it.</text></item><item><author>apostacy</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Some will point out (and some have!) that I could have quite easily saved myself a lot of time, hassle, and lost earnings at this point by just quietly holding on to the extra Switch and saying nothing to Nintendo about it. It certainly would have saved me a lot of stress, but it was morally not something I’d ever consider.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s his mistake right there. He was under no moral obligation to fix Nintendo&amp;#x27;s mistake for them. Nintendo had made a string of mistakes up to this point, and one of their mistakes was in his favor.&lt;p&gt;If you truly have a guilty conscience, then just throw the extra package out, because it is abandoned property.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had this happen occasionally. Just know that you are not responsible for stuff like this. My Dad had a similar experience, where spent weeks trying to get a company to honor a warranty, and in the end they sent him two replacement hard drives instead of one. I actually interpret this as a kind of karma. Sometimes good things land in your lap, don&amp;#x27;t reject them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apostacy</author><text>You are not taking into account that Nintendo is not a small startup, or an individual. I always go out of my way to help people who need it. I&amp;#x27;ve always found people who&amp;#x27;ve lost cell phones, and I have returned incorrectly shipped items that I have gotten on Ebay and Etsy.&lt;p&gt;There is a world of difference between a startup or a person, and Nintendo. Nintendo can afford this loss, and maybe they will improve their delivery system because of it.&lt;p&gt;But if an international mega-corporation accidentally screws themselves instead of me for once, no, I am not going to help them. They would never do the same for me, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter because they are not a person they are just a system, and will not appreciate it anyway.&lt;p&gt;And also, again, they are abandoning property with me. Are you seriously saying that some corporation can send you something, and expect you to keep it in good condition and then send it back to them? Think about this in terms of responsibility.</text></comment>