- Redditor Reportedly Bought 96GB DDR5 RAM Kit From Corsair
- One stick was faulty, we’re told, so the kit had to be returned
- The replacement turned out to be fake RGB lighting modules worth $35, and Corsair is currently investigating what happened here.
We’ve recently witnessed a number of expensive RAM purchases gone wrong, and here comes another story of memory problems.
While we’ve previously reported on RAM scams occurring through retailers, as VideoCardz reports, the buyer in this case was dealing directly with the manufacturer, at least that’s what 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 ridiculous memory price inflation over the past few months – and had to return it because one RAM stick didn’t work.
It was sent back to Corsair for a replacement, but when the new DDR5 RAM arrived, it wasn’t DDR5 RAM at all. In fact, as others on Reddit have pointed out, the poster in the thread received a Corsair lighting upgrade kit. If you have empty RAM slots, these dummy modules are designed to fit into them, simply to give the illusion of full banks of premium memory (and enhance the RGB lighting effects inside your PC).
Of course, on their own, these RGB modules are useless, because they are empty and do not actually contain any memory chips.
They’re also a bit cheaper at $35 compared to the price the Redditor paid for his 96GB memory kit.
While the RAM and other hardware (often GPU) scams we’ve seen at Amazon aren’t exactly uncommon, it’s more unusual to see this happen when purchasing directly from the manufacturer. In fact, you wouldn’t expect it at all.
It is of course possible that there was a glitch in Corsair’s internal system and a shipping error. Or that, in the same vein as many of Amazon’s (alleged) scams, a bad actor could have purchased the empty DDR5 RAM and lighting modules, then initiated a return for the memory and shipped that in its place – and Corsair failed to detect the fraud. Of course, this is all speculation.
Regardless, the good news is that a Corsair representative has made contact on Reddit and has a ticket number of the buyer. He is therefore currently investigating this incident with the company’s support team – and the Redditor should be contacted soon. So let’s hope a resolution is near.
The Corsair rep also just responded to another thread on Reddit, as well as another scam reported by Amazon, in which someone ordered Corsair DDR5 RAM and got older DDR4 memory instead. In this case, they were USB drives that worked, and a less tech-savvy buyer might not have noticed a difference.
We can definitely expect more problems like this 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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