UPDATE:
Apparently Amazon's European lawyers know their trade. Someone just managed to get a 20% refund (and keep the console) as compensation for the removal of Linux.
http://www.playstationuniversity.com/ps3-owner-refunded-without-return-for-missing-other-os-3555/
As forseen in this very thread.
So much for EULA-shmeula and TOS-shmos.
And don't think Amazon will just east up those costs. It's going to get interesting now.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
