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NZXT responds to damning Gamers Nexus video accusing it of running a "predatory, evil" rental scam

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To the NZXT community. We've heard your concerns. We are aware of the recent claims made against us and are actively reviewing the situation. Rest assured, we are committed to addressing this thoroughly and will share an official statement soon

That's the whole response.

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- That means "if sales start dropping we might change something"
  
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  It doesn't sound like there's much that can be changed though. The business model is just ripping people off.
  
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- "We heard your concerns"
  
  More like: "Oops, someone actually stopped to read our predatory contract."
  
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- We all complain sometimes that people don't read the article. But when the article can be so easily summed up like this, why should we bother?
  
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  Oh, the article is about 4-5x that long before getting to that quote from NZXT's Instagram feed.
  
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To the NZXT community. We've heard your concerns. We are aware of the recent claims made against us and are actively reviewing the situation. Rest assured, we are committed to addressing this thoroughly and will share an official statement soon.

Translation: Fuck! you caught us. We are currently in PR disaster recovery mode and trying to figure out how to spin this to not look like complete scum bags. Rest assured, we are committed to trying to find some escape goat to throw under the bus and minimizing the damage to our reputation.

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- escape goat
  
  Scapegoat.
  
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  Escape goat is probably a Trailer Park Boys reference, some of us just like to deliberately mispronounce things in an ironic manner too.
  
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  Escape from g0at
  
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  Escape goat.
  
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  Scapegoat
  
  Escape the goat
  
  Rest assured we are trying to escape the goat and minimising the damage to our reputation.
  
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  Literally the etymology though. 'scape instead of escape is the original "mispronunciation" otherwise it's just a straight-forward translation of Azazel, the goat which escaped in Levictus 16.
  
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- A slightly more accurate translation:
  
  Oh, you actually noticed. We are currently waiting for our pack of lawyers to prepare the paperwork to file a suit against GamersNexus for what we are going to claim is libel. Rest assured, we are committed to trying to find some escape goat to throw under the bus and minimizing the damage to our investors.
  
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I think this is one of those things where every department is pointing at every other department like that spiderman meme but we all know it's the dumbasses in marketing

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- Executive team has to sign of shit like this tho...
  
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- No, the marketing may be responsible for the images and phrasing on the site and the exact talking points sent to influencers... But the program is structured to be exploitative by design, that's executive decisions.
  
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“We’re sorry, we thought you wouldn’t notice and that we could get away with it”.

I wonder if there’s going to be a lot more of this kind of thing once those tariffs kick in.

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Soon;
"We investigated ourselves and didn't find anything wrong"

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That's a shame, I bought a nzxt computer in 2018 because it was slightly cheaper than building it part for part. Mainly due to the gfx card being way cheaper than I could get it. The crypto boom was driving gfx card prices through the roof at that time. Still runs like a champ and I love my nzxt case. Major bummer they are doing shady shit now.

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The response announcement. Just what we were missing.

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I've never heard of NXZT, were they like NCIX? What do they do?

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- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZXT
  
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  Well Wiki didn’t take long to update 😁
  
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Hmm, I wonder if they'll offer a free month for new rentals. That'll definitely show how in touch they are.

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