I've got to agree with @JohnRedcorn you don't just let people you've only just met into your home or go to someones place when you've only just met them that is just irresponsible.
Yikes... I don't invite anyone to my home unless I know them quite well and have been friends with them for a good few months. I'm sorry, but this is all on you, you should have known better... especially inviting people you only just met to your house and then letting one borrow your system. I'm sorry that you lost your system, but you really shouldn't trust any person you meet, I hardly trust my friends with my DVDs, let alone a video game system.
Well sometime you don't know them until you invite them over. Some people just don't about other people property. Sure they seem nice and like to share but that's doesn't mean they are most likely take care of your stuffs or their stuffs.
You let strangers into your apartment and let them borrow your stuff? Not trying to be jerk here, but you don't have my sympathy. Just take it as an expensive lesson and just get a new 3DS. Also I would suggest you change your lock.
when the police took down your information for their report and you gave them the serial number of the 3DS that was pawned, were you given a copy of the report? there are a few possible scenarios that can happen for you, but only by having filed a proper report with the police (instead of just talking to a cop buddy in passing, for example) can you really do anything to reclaim some of what you've lost.
(a) Once you've got the report with the serial number in hand, try checking around some of the local pawn shops. Tell them your property was stolen and pawned without your knowledge, and if they've got any 3DSes in stock, ask them to check for one with your serial number on it. Should your stolen 3DS turn up in their inventory, depending on the laws in your state you may have to pay them what they paid to take it off of her hands in the first place (you can file suit in court against her later on to get that money back if it's worth it to you, but filing fees may cancel out the benefits to where it'd be just on principle). Whether they return it to you or charge you for it, the important thing is that the pawn shop will have to report the person who pawned it to the authorities for having pawned stolen goods — they'll have taken down her information and gotten copies of her ID or whatever the state requires.
(b) if you are unable to locate your 3DS in any local pawn shops and the authorities turn up nothing as well, that police report will still help you to regain any downloadable content you may have purchased on your system via Nintendo themselves if you do wind up replacing the system yourself. You'd need to get in touch with Nintendo, they'll ask you for the report number and they'll work things out on their end with you once everything comes up legit. It won't help you in terms of locating your original system, your save files and whatever SD card and game cart you had in it will still be gone, but if you had a lot of downloadables, at least you'll have something left for your troubles.
To be honest, when looking around town for your system, you'll probably want to check local game shops that take merchandise as trade-ins, like Gamestop, Best Buy, etc. and so forth — you never know if it'll turn up, and i know Gamestop definitely takes your ID information whenever you trade in anything there. They'd probably be bound by the same laws as a pawn shop when it comes to traded merchandise, and they'd have to report this person to the authorities as well.
whatever happens, best of luck to you. it sucks being taken advantage of by someone you thought you could trust. :/
Hopefully you get your stuff back.
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Y'all should be paranoid to avoid stuff like this happening (I'm kid). Hopefully you didn't have too much data on there man. In future you can always back up your saves and even all your DL games on your comp then put it onto a new sd card if you get a new 3DS to put it on. Not that this'll ever happen to you again probably xD. Kind of a bummer. At least you made some new friends though
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I had a copy of Mario Kart 7 in the cartridge slot as well as Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon Y(which I got through the promo) and a few Virtual console and small eShop games. It's probably about 150 dollars of content I have lost altogether, in addition to the system. The only games that I have left are my original DS games and Link Between Worlds.
I actually rented Spirit Tracks through gamefly (copies are pretty much impossible to find these days) but I won't have a system to play it for a while, which is pretty disappointing.
Woah. That really sucks but I can't say I didn't see it coming from several miles away. I wouldn't borrow out my 3DS to anyone. Not my mom, dad, girlfriend, or best friend. Wouldn't even consider it. Let alone a stranger. Still, I know how important my 3DS is to me and I sympathize with you knowing how devastated I would be if I lost mine. Depending on how much time has passed, it seems somewhat unlikely you will find your 3DS and if you do it likely will have its memory wiped. All you can really do is learn your lesson and never invite strangers inside your home/ lend them expensive things again.
most people will chase you down if you drop or leave something to give it back.
That's been my experience growing up in America so far, as nothing has ever been stolen from me but plenty of people have chased me down to give me/my friends their stuff back. Americans just seem to focus on the bad stuff
Many Americans don't live in the lesser areas...
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most people will chase you down if you drop or leave something to give it back.
That's been my experience growing up in America so far, as nothing has ever been stolen from me but plenty of people have chased me down to give me/my friends their stuff back. Americans just seem to focus on the bad stuff
Many Americans don't live in the lesser areas...
I can't vouch for Japan, I've never left America, ever. But, like Unca has said, it would've been different (depending on the item) if it was in lesser class areas. One thing I do have to say though, in my experience anyway, not many Americans, especially this generation (mine ofcoures facepalm ), are very polite, its crazy. And not only that, but their lazy, disrespectful, everyone seems to swear, and dress like............yeah. And I understand that people in Japan, and China are very polite, something my generation could use.
As for the actual poster, I gotta say dude, be more careful, people get killed that way, good luck, at least it wasn't a 500+ console
You can blame the victim all you like and yes the person acted foolishly here but that still does not excuse Nintendo's policy of tying game to the console.... the person should only have to buy a new 3DS not a new a 3DS and all the digital games again
You can blame the victim all you like and yes the person acted foolishly here but that still does not excuse Nintendo's policy of tying game to the console.... the person should only have to buy a new 3DS not a new a 3DS and all the digital games again
Um... that hasn't been the case since December. Remember the system update that added Nintendo Network functionality? Yeah, that forced all Nintendo eShop purchases to be tied to your Nintendo Network ID, so it would be no problem for Nintendo to do some tinkering, remotely detach it from his old system, and attach it to another system. I appreciate that you enjoy having a go at Nintendo, but now is not the time.
To the original poster, if you haven't taken theblackdragon's advice yet, do so - at the very least, if you can get a police report to pass onto Nintendo, that's a great first step. Being able to provide a police report will greatly help Nintendo in trying to help you with your problem. I'd also advice this be a lesson to you in future - just because someone asks to borrow your stuff doesn't mean you have to say yes, and you should never do that if you've just met them. Still, I hope you get all this sorted out soon, best of luck to you.
You can blame the victim all you like and yes the person acted foolishly here but that still does not excuse Nintendo's policy of tying game to the console.... the person should only have to buy a new 3DS not a new a 3DS and all the digital games again
Um... that hasn't been the case since December. Remember the system update that added Nintendo Network functionality? Yeah, that forced all Nintendo eShop purchases to be tied to your Nintendo Network ID, so it would be no problem for Nintendo to do some tinkering, remotely detach it from his old system, and attach it to another system. I appreciate that you enjoy having a go at Nintendo, but now is not the time.
To the original poster, if you haven't taken theblackdragon's advice yet, do so - at the very least, if you can get a police report to pass onto Nintendo, that's a great first step. Being able to provide a police report will greatly help Nintendo in trying to help you with your problem. I'd also advice this be a lesson to you in future - just because someone asks to borrow your stuff doesn't mean you have to say yes, and you should never do that if you've just met them. Still, I hope you get all this sorted out soon, best of luck to you.
I know about the NNID functionality and even before the NNID functionality Nintendo could simply transfer the game to another console with serial number of the 3DS......they could easily return the games but they won't....... unless they have changed policy they official word is that they don't care about police reports, if you cannot send the console back to them they won't do anything for you
@ferthepoet aparently that changed, I heard that if you have a Club Nintendo account they will restore your games.
but it sucks because Club Nintendo doesn't cover all the americas, only US and Canada that's not even North America as a whole much less all the americas...
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