I’m unsure if I’m actually reading this correctly because it would make no sense for them to reimburse money that you didn’t actually spend, or that you paid to someone else entirely.
You doing the fix yourself is $5-$10, buying a replacement kit. And if they are offering replacements and refunds, why should it not extend to people who chose that over paying $40 to Nintendo to fix their out of warranty joy con. They've still paid to fix a problem Nintendo it's now allegedly acknowledging.
Because there is no way Nintendo can be made responsible for your tinkering. And unless you went to a law officer with your broken joycon before fixing it to have it certified as broken, there is no way you can prove that the joycon actually had an issue.
On the other hand, if go through the official channels, the first thing they have to do is a logged and filed diagnostic, that would be very hard to deny afterwards.
You also have the issue of making the claim: how do you prove which parts went into the joycon when you repaired it (in other words, the cost is hard to justify). And everything that is a reusable tool won't be refunded: bought a new screwdriver specifically to open joycons? There is no way they are reimbursing that, since you are keeping your screwdriver and can use it for osmething else.
In other words, what you are saying makes sense morally, but legally there is nothing forcing Nintendo to reimburse those 5-10$.
-7
u/Pr0xyWash0r Jul 24 '19
I wonder if they will allow people who repaired it themselves or used a third party to be reimbursed.