Sony lowers The Last of Us: Remastered price, refuses to give people a refund (UPDATE: Sony has said they will refund customers)

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Max King of the Wild said:

Just because you are the last person to say this but this is directed to everyone. Target gives a price guarantee for two weeks after purchase with receipt. No retailer (which sony is act as) will allow you to purchase something then refund you the money when they lower the price weeks later. Really, people are wayyyy overreacting. 

Sorry but this post is bullsh. Yeah, if I buy a game at Best Buy and then a month later it's less at Wal-Mart, I can't stroll in with an ad and get the difference. However, if I preorder a game or prepurchase a game from virtually ANY retailer that allows it, and before release the MSRP drops, not only would 99% of retailers simply give me back the difference in price, at the very least they would allow customers to cancel their preorders, get the refund, and then immediately preorder the product again at the lower price.

I don't think Sony is refusing this for greed reasons, I think they simply do not have the capacity to give partial refunds. When they charged my card the wrong amount for a purchase on PSN recently, instead of just giving me the difference back, I had to go through a long process where they refund the entire amount, take away my rights to the product, then have me buy it again if I want.

This move is a slap in the face to any customer of PSN who preordered the digital version there, and it's so blatant and shitty that it is something Sony must already be working on a fix for. Just a matter of time before they announce it and then you can go from blaming innocent consumers to praising Sony #4thegamers.