Buying Amiibo Cards from Etsy?

[tajikey]

these knock-offs ride a thin line between legal and illegal - almost all are bootleg and not official.
I don't know if Nintendo can ever take action because the chips are identical in almost every way.

However, legitimate ones are... few and far between because nintendo has not produced them in awhile despite the demand, so unfortunately the only solution right now is spoofing... (which can be seen by some as an act of hacking)

The line isn't thin at all, at least not ethically. Knock-offs are 100% illegal, as the code to create them is the intellectual property of Nintendo, and I'd like to believe whomever hacked the cards to get the codes, then subsequently built the system to re-distribute them, did not pay Nintendo for the right to do so. It fully crosses the line when someone makes a profit off this Nintendo-owned code. Morally, however, is a bit muddy. If the average user buys the coins and loads the code for their own purposes, without any intent to distribute for profit, then sure, have at it. As someone said right above me, because Nintendo isn't producing and/or selling said cards, the only people losing money are folks on the secondary market seeking to recover what they paid, or flip and turn a profit.

Yes, I get it, the authentic, officially licensed cards are expensive, but even if Nintendo made more, it doesn't guarantee prices come down. I opened 18 packs of Series 4 looking for Stitches...got one. Meanwhile, Barold (or was it Hippeux (more like Hippeww, right?!?!)) showed his not-so-pretty face repeatedly.

And by "only solution," you meant, "only unethical - yet somehow morally acceptable - solution."

 

[Pikabun]

I was at some point thinking of buying but I end up happy that I was trying to find villager myself. Just personally feel proud and exciting.

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Does anyone know where to buy Amiibo Card Packs? I just want packs of them not individual cards.

Ebay or amazon?

 

[Lavamaize]

I feel like, if Nintendo were against it, they'd have started cracking down on it harder. I saw a post about someone's Nintendo account getting suspended, and they said that before that they'd used an Amiibo off Etsy. I couldn't imagine that would be the case for suspension!

While it might not be the reason their account got suspended due to the difficulty of tracking down who used DIY amiibos, DIY amiibo cards are illegal. When you sell a card with code that Nintendo made for a game without authorization, that is illegal as you are selling code for a game that you don't own that was made and licensed by others. Basically you are infringing on Nintendos copyright.