{"id":107839,"date":"2020-01-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/nintendo_wont_be_required_to_offer_eshop_pre-order_refunds_in_norway_or_germany"},"modified":"2020-01-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:00:00","slug":"nintendo-wont-be-required-to-offer-eshop-pre-order-refunds-in-norway-or-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/nintendo-wont-be-required-to-offer-eshop-pre-order-refunds-in-norway-or-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Won&#8217;t Be Required To Offer eShop Pre-Order Refunds In Norway Or Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c00bf7843b74b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c00bf7843b74b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">At least for now<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>3 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo eShop\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c00bf7843b74b\/nintendo-eshop.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c00bf7843b74b\/nintendo-eshop.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo eShop\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s already made headlines for a separate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/federal_court_rules_usd10_1_million_case_against_nintendos_wii_remote_as_invalid\">legal matter<\/a> this week, and now after a two-year court battle, it has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pressfire.no\/nyheter\/Switch\/14976\/Nintendo-vant-forbrukerrettsaken-mot-Norge-og-Tyskland\">reportedly<\/a> won a separate case against the German Consumer Protection Authority (VZBV) and Norway&#8217;s Consumer Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese video game giant was accused of violating Norwegian and EU consumer laws, by not allowing users to cancel digital pre-orders at all. Nintendo argued the sales contract was fulfilled when the game pre-load began. The council argued against this but was overruled in a verdict at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has since been appealed, and the next round is expected to take place in about a year and a half. Do you think you should be able to refund pre-orders on the Switch eShop? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-wins-court-case-against-germany-and-norway-inability-to-cancel-eshop-pre-orders-deemed-legal\/#disqus_thread\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-wins-court-case-against-germany-and-norway-inability-to-cancel-eshop-pre-orders-deemed-legal\/#disqus_thread\">nintendoeverything.com<\/a>, <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/escb7d\/nintendo_wins_court_case_against_germany_and\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/escb7d\/nintendo_wins_court_case_against_germany_and\/\">reddit.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2020-01-23T03:26:20+00:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least for now by Liam Doolan 3 hours ago Nintendo&#8217;s already made headlines for a separate legal matter this week, and now after a two-year court battle, it has reportedly won a separate case against the German Consumer Protection Authority (VZBV) and Norway&#8217;s Consumer Rights Council. The Japanese video game giant was accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}