- A Redditor bought a 32GB Corsair RAM kit for $300
- They ended up being sent 10 of those kits
- That's a total of 320GB of RAM, or $3,000 worth of memory (actually more going by current pricing)
We're seeing a distinct increase in scams around RAM sales of late — now that DDR5 is so expensive, it's inevitable — but here's something that worked the other way around, and very much in favor of the buyer this time.
As posted on Reddit, somebody ordered a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM kit with a 32GB capacity, paying $300 for the privilege.
What they received, though, was a box of 10 of these 32GB kits, which of course is worth $3,000 — based on the price apparently paid, anyway, which seems cheap. (If we look at Newegg in the US right now, for example, the cheapest Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kits I can see are around $400, so this pile of RAM is actually selling for quite a bit more than three grand in theory).
We must, of course, be careful as to whether this is a genuine story or one that's been fabricated to grab some attention. Obviously, there's no real proof, although the photo of the stack of RAM kits in the box looks genuine enough — but that's all we can really go on here.
So, arm yourself with a whole lot of seasoning, but while this kind of error is doubtless very rare, it can happen — albeit not usually on this scale.
Analysis: warehouse woes?
Assuming this is a genuine tale of an order fulfilment slip-up, how might such a mistake occur? Clearly there's been an error in the inventory system somewhere, and as the other Redditors discussing the incident conclude, it's likely a mistake in the warehouse where a staff member scanned the box of 10 kits as a single item – and nobody further up the chain thought to double-check on this.
Whatever the case, the reality for most of us is that buying RAM is now a miserable affair, especially DDR5 – and you're way more likely to run into a scam than any kind of mistake like this.
That said, these things do happen, and there's another poster in the Reddit thread who claims that a friend received five RAM kits when they ordered one – and contacted Amazon to let them know about the mistake. Apparently: "Amazon customer service basically told him to keep them as it was their mistake, he was offering to send 4 back and they just told him it didn't matter."
As for what the Redditor who was sent these 10 kits is going to do, they say: "I'm selling to the community for under the new inflated msrp."
As another Redditor put it, "My dude is out here Robin Hoodmaxxing", and that's an understandable sentiment given just how painful RAM pricing has got – but of course there could be other potential ramifications (pun not intended) with this approach to the seller's mistake.
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