Purchased a 2000 Wii Points Card Online, Turns Out It Was For The Wrong Region...

I'm frustrated here and am looking for advice on what I should do.

Last night I bought 2000 Wii Points card for $13.99, when the redeem code came it turns out it was for European consoles.

Nintendo has region locked the cards, so I kept getting an error saying that I am using a card meant for another region.

I called up Nintendo and was told
"Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of American are different companies, we cannot transfer or issue replacement points to your account friom the European card."

Which honestly frustrates me to no end.

I sent and email to NoA Management to see if there is anything they can do.. but I willing to take suggestions on what else I should do.

I am thinking about calling Nintendo again, see if there is someone else I can talk to.

Why not go back to the seller for a refund? Though to be fair, if they listed the card as specific to a certain region, it's your problem for not paying attention. And I kind of doubt any seller would refund you for a card that has already had the code scratched off (or whatever). You may have to just eat the loss.

Sell it to a European.

chimpmeister said:

Why not go back to the seller for a refund? Though to be fair, if they listed the card as specific to a certain region, it's your problem for not paying attention. And I kind of doubt any seller would refund you for a card that has already had the code scratched off (or whatever). You may have to just eat the loss.

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They won't, and I didn't know they were region coded.

I thought a code was a code, like many games are for other areas.

On the phone with a manager, who might push this through for me.

That' good to know that it's region locked. I was about to buy a card on ebay to purchase the map packs for Mario Kart, i'll make sure it's for NA.

Sell it on eBay UK or something.

batman1939 said:

Doesn't the system let you choose your country? Set it to somewhere in Europe, redeem code, download games, then switch country back. Just make sure the games you download are available here. Or you could just give me code for free and I'll try

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All recent Nintendo systems are region-locked, so no, you can't do that. If you buy a North American 3DS, you can only use that with North American eshop and retail games, that's it. You don't "choose" the region yourself, it's locked by the hardware.