right to return? - wii game

wolfehouse

update-
i tired my luck and they said 'copyright laws' so only exchange for the same again.

unfortunately (not the ironic tone) they were out so allowed an exchange for a game of equivalent value.

thanks for your thoughts. i see it is not straightforward. but the thing was useless- not just bad but unplayable.

Tozer

wolfehouse wrote: »

update-
i tired my luck and they said 'copyright laws' so only exchange for the same again.

unfortunately (not the ironic tone) they were out so allowed an exchange for a game of equivalent value.

thanks for your thoughts. i see it is not straightforward. but the thing was useless- not just bad but unplayable.

Since when do "copyright laws" override the Sale of Goods Act?

vyle

wolfehouse wrote: »

i bought fitness ultimatum 2009
and the game won't play it appears because of the softwear writing (if only i had read the reviews before buying

it freezes and doesn't respond to controllers (not playable on my machine at all)

as it doesn't do what it says - i.e. is not 'fit for purpose'
do i have any right to return it?

Because of software writing? Do you mean poor coding?

You were lucky to get a replacement game (I hope you read reviews and got something GOOD i.e Okami or something similar, rather than another fitness game). The difficult thing with software is that its quality is subjective. You bought a game that wasn't designed well, but that doesn't mean that it's 'not fit for purpose' just like if you bought a CD of your favourite band to find the new album's crap.

If the disk itself was faulty, however, that's another matter.

Did you try it in another wii to see if your wii was faulty rather than the game?

DCFC79

Tozer wrote: »

Since when do "copyright laws" override the Sale of Goods Act?

im puzzled myself as to how the copyright law came into it

vyle

DCFC79 wrote: »

im puzzled myself as to how the copyright law came into it

Because it's very easy to buy a game, copy it, then return it for another game to copy and so on.

That's why most places won't take a game back if the seal has been opened.