- One Redditor bought a 32GB Corsair RAM kit for $300
- They ended up being sent 10 of these sets
- That’s a total of 320GB of RAM, or $3,000 worth of memory (actually more at current pricing)
We’ve seen a significant increase in scams in RAM sales lately – now that DDR5 is so expensive, it’s inevitable – but here’s something that backfired, and very much in favor of the buyer this time.
As posted on Reddit, someone ordered a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM kit with a capacity of 32GB and paid $300 for the privilege.
What they did receive, however, was a box of 10 of these 32GB sets, which of course are worth $3,000 – based on the price apparently paid, anyway, which seems cheap. (Looking 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).
Of course, we have to be careful about whether this is a real story or one that has been made up to grab some attention. Obviously, there’s no real proof, although the picture of the stack of RAM kits in the box looks real enough – but that’s all we can really go on here.
So arm yourself with a lot of spice, but while this kind of error is undoubtedly very rare, it can happen – albeit not normally on this scale.
Analysis: stock problems?
Assuming this is a genuine tale of order fulfillment, how could such an error occur? Clearly, there’s been a glitch in the inventory system somewhere, and as the other Redditors discussing the incident conclude, it’s likely a warehouse error where an employee scanned the box of 10 sets as a single item — and no one further up the chain thought to double-check this.
Either way, the reality for most of us is that buying RAM, especially DDR5, is now a lousy affair – and you’re far more likely to run into a scam than any kind of mistake like this.
That said, these things happen, and there’s another poster in the Reddit thread who claims a friend received five RAM kits when they ordered one – and contacted Amazon to let them know about the error. Apparently: “Amazon customer service basically told him to keep them since it was their fault, he offered to send 4 back and they just told him it didn’t matter.”
As for what the Redditor who was sent these 10 sets should do, they say, “I’m selling to the community for below the new inflated msrp.”
As another Redditor put it, “My guy is out here Robin Hoodmaxxing,” and that’s an understandable sentiment given how painful RAM pricing has gotten—but of course, there could be other potential ramifications (no pun intended) with this approach to vendor failure.
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