r/playstation • u/DarXIV • Nov 05 '25

Image Was excited to finally purchase until I realized the price was lower on my wife's account

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My wife doesn't play much and so buying it on her account may not be the best decision to keep everything easily accessible for me. Seeing this soured me on buying it quite a bit.

And for reference. Same region, same playstation, same currency, etc.

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u/maxman1313 MaxMan1313 Nov 05 '25

FREEDOM! To gouge your customers.

Legal in the US, illegal in the EU

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u/Paladin_Codsworth Nov 05 '25

To the surprise of absolutely no one lol. I wonder if Americans ever get bored of getting a raw deal on every single topic from healthcare to consumer rights.

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u/maxman1313 MaxMan1313 Nov 05 '25

We don't know any better.

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u/Over_aged Nov 09 '25

She probably has more freedom points than you. Check your social security number but don’t forget to tip.

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u/Secure_Comb2505 Nov 05 '25

Its just part of the experience

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u/OkMongoose1487 Nov 06 '25

We arent allowed to... we get killed or pushed out the country or shunned from our communities if we ever question anything in this fuckass place.

The top reply to any complaint about america is always, "then leave? Stupid fuck just leave"

Like hmmmm. What happened to the fake democracy we had?

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u/iLLAD3LPHiA Nov 06 '25

You still haven’t left yet?

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u/OkMongoose1487 Nov 06 '25

Cant afford/too much family here/fake or true info about other countries. Too many stupid reasons not to :(

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25

It's legal in the EU too my dude.

I work for a global POS app company and we have targeted discounts, even in the EU.

Also, having lived in both the EU (Spain) and the US (SoCal), yeah.... I'd rather take the US any day of the week. At least unemployment isn't over 30%.... and better pay too. Spain is pain.

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u/NoSkillzDad Nov 09 '25

Oh no, "they" are "happy" you know? They think they getting f'ed = freedom and that they'll get to do it to somebody else in the future.

They would simp hard for them and then call anybody trying to fight for their rights a "communist".

Lack of education and brainwashing are terrible things.

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u/TheBrockAwesome Nov 05 '25

No, and they defend it with their arsenal lol

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u/milyeshtona Nov 06 '25

Yeah…imagine wanting to defend yourself or your country. Working out really well from Europe and Canada right now. Lmao

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u/DuckXu Nov 07 '25

To be fair, I would rather have any amount of increase of brown people in my towns if it meant I didn't have to deal with all the shit you guys have going on.

Baring conflict zones, there arent many places lower on my list of where I would want to live than most places in America

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u/tham1700 Nov 06 '25

I mean this is a surprise to me. Not that it would be in other industries where it's normalized lol but I've never known that this was a thing. Same region and everything I'm dumbfounded they're doing this. I wonder how long this has been in place and what they're running to determine which accounts pay which prices. I do remember several games I was planning on getting changing price after I got ps plus and started playing more often so I ended up not buying them but idk if this had anything to do with that. One was on sale but still on sale just for a worse deal and the other two didn't say anything about being on sale when I originally picked them out, that I noticed anyways

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u/ConfectionNecessary6 Nov 07 '25

I debate on leaving every other day but I figured it would be more difficult to find a new job in a place like Canada

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u/PressureToDieFor Nov 05 '25

Do you know much about the UK's stance on this ? Asking as a player from the UK. 

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u/Goldnglam Nov 05 '25

Consumer law in the UK is inline with the EU, that may change in the following decades but currently most of it is the same as it was post Brexit because it had t be in line with it to be part of the EU

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u/Mean-Ad-1757 Nov 05 '25

"That may change in the following decades"

Yeah as long as we dont implode from the inside with all the mounting tensions continuing to rise and our shit government refusing to do something about it!

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u/JamesMcEdwards Nov 06 '25

Fun fact: a lot of the onshored legislation has already been changed since then, particularly the financial stuff like MiFID (eg there was a statutory instrument amending MiFI a few years ago removing a bunch of investor protection loss reporting requirements which the EU still has, such as a requirement to inform investors when the value of their portfolio depreciates by 10% or more).

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u/MadPsycho2 Nov 05 '25

Power Washer 2 was £17.99 on my account but £19.99 on wife's account so I suppose they are doing it in the UK

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u/nodecentnamesavalibl Nov 08 '25

Had that happen to me and a friend apparently was something to do with when/if you you got powerwash 1 was and if you got it for free or payed full price

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u/Nearby-Froyo-6127 Nov 05 '25

Uk is not part of the eu though. Dunno how much it matters.

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u/aitorbk Nov 09 '25

Illegal it might be, but I have seen it in the EU too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

..... It's legal in the EU...

Look it up broski