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Corsair Says It Mistakenly Listed An "Incorrect" Price For Dominator Titanium 48 GB DDR5; Hence, Cancels All January 1 Orders For The Kit (wccftech.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002 to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Apparently, the user whose PC order was canceled by Corsair without any "sensible" reason wasn’t an isolated case, as Corsair has confirmed that it also canceled DDR5 RAM orders placed on January 1. After the report on the Corsair PC order cancellation went viral, Corsair's official X handle announced the reason for the cancellation. We’ll cover this in more detail, as a larger story unfolded today and Corsair informed users via X and Reddit.

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It seems like open and shut false advertising. Why is it ok? Retailers should face the consequences of their actions.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

It's false advertising if they list one price and then charge another. It's not if they list one and cancel orders so that they can change it.

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a mistake, they refunded the money. False advertising suggests that someone is selling something that is not what it appears. The person didn't get ripped off, they have their money back and they are whole. Sure I would be annoyed about it if it happened to me, but it's not a scam or a bait and switch. It's just oops, we realized we can't sell that for that price, here is your money back.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Come on, there's no way you can believe that.

It wasn't a mistake. The "mistake" was in not raising their prices as fast or as much as they possibly could, and so they just decided to not to honour it, and crank the price next time around - because they could.

This is pure greed, plain and simple.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

According to the article, the price wasn't the only incorrect thing, the kit itself was also out of stock. Corsair currently isn't accepting pre-orders for this kit at all, so they're not hiking the price for this product because they're not selling it.