- A Redditor Reportedly Bought a 96GB DDR5 RAM Kit from Corsair
- We were told that one device was defective, so the kit had to be returned.
- The replacement turned out to be $35 worth of dummy RGB lighting modules, and Corsair is now investigating what happened here.
We’ve recently witnessed a series of expensive RAM purchases gone wrong, and here’s another story of memory problems.
While we previously reported on RAM scams that occurred through retailers, as VideoCardz reports, the buyer in this case was dealing directly with the manufacturer, or so the post on Reddit tells us.
The Redditor says they bought a 96GB RAM kit from Corsair (we don’t know the exact model, but these DDR5 products now start at $999 in the US, after the ridiculous memory price inflation in recent months) and had to return it because one unit of RAM didn’t work.
It was sent back to Corsair to be replaced, but when the new DDR5 RAM arrived, it wasn’t DDR5 RAM at all. In fact, as others on Reddit pointed out, what the poster in the thread received was a Corsair lighting upgrade kit. If you have empty RAM slots, these dummy modules are designed to fit into them, simply to provide the illusion of full banks of premium memory (and reinforce the RGB lighting effects inside your PC).
Of course, on their own, these RGB modules are useless, as they are empty and don’t actually contain any memory chips.
They’re also a bit cheaper at $35 compared to the grand Redditor shelled out for their 96GB memory kit.
While the RAM and other hardware (often GPU) scams we’ve seen from companies like Amazon aren’t exactly uncommon, it’s more unusual for this to happen when purchasing directly from the manufacturer. In fact, you wouldn’t expect it at all.
Of course, it’s possible that there was a glitch in Corsair’s internal system and a shipping error. Or that, in the same vein as many (alleged) Amazon scams, a bad actor could have purchased the empty DDR5 RAM and lighting modules, then initiated a return for the memory and shipped the latter instead, and Corsair was unaware of the fraud. This is all just speculation, of course.
In any case, the good news is that a Corsair representative reached out on Reddit and has a ticket number for the buyer, so they are now investigating this incident with the company’s support team, and we should contact the Redditor soon. So, hopefully, resolution is near.
The Corsair rep also just responded to another Reddit thread and another reported Amazon scam, where someone ordered Corsair DDR5 RAM and got old DDR4 memory instead. In this case, these were working memory cards and a less tech-savvy buyer may not have noticed any difference.
We can certainly expect more such problems to occur in the future, especially if RAM becomes even more expensive (which is a possibility, believe it or not, in the near term).
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