A Redditor posted on the r/Corsair subreddit, complaining that the company cancelled their $3,499 pre-built PC order on New Year’s Day, only to discover that the unit had been raised to $4,299 the following day. Senior_Ball_9068 said on the post, “I believe that they cancelled my order exactly because they raised the price.” This is a massive $700 price hike, especially at a time when memory prices are hitting record highs, leading to significant disappointment for users.
Thankfully, a Community Captain took notice and messaged the user to get their order number and get to the bottom of things. According to u/CorsairLucky, “The order was flagged by our fraud detection system and was canceled as a result. On January 1st, our Holiday Deals promo pricing ended, and the normal pricing was reinstated. But we’ll be getting OP taken care of!”
It seems that Corsair sent a coupon to u/Senior_Ball_9068, allowing them to repurchase their order at the sale price. More than that, they’ll also monitor the order, ensuring it reaches the Redditor so they can enjoy the new year with a brand-new gaming rig.
My order has been cancelled and they raised the price. from r/Corsair
This is a commendable move by Corsair, especially given that the OP wasn’t at fault. And while we’re unsure whether they reached out to Corsair customer service to fix the issue, it seems their Reddit post gained a lot of traction, catching the company’s attention. The Redditor ordered the Corsair Vengeance a5100 gaming PC, which comes with an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, 32GB (2x16GB) of DDR5-6400, and a 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD. The original $4,299 is indeed too much for a build like this, but the $3,499 sale price seems reasonable.
We looked at the specifications for the gaming PC and built something close using PCPartPicker. The total price of the custom build should be around $3,120. While many enthusiasts will not pay the $380 premium that Corsair charges for its pre-built PC, the Redditor said that they prefer that because they “never had the experience of building a PC myself” and that they did not want to “break…something up in the process.”
And even though others say that it’s easy to learn building one from scratch, it’s probably something that the OP doesn’t want to risk, and that they’re willing to pay extra for the privilege of not having to think which parts to order, worry about putting it together, and the peace of mind of warranty coverage for the entire PC.
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