Jowi Morales Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
glrok This is a common practice by many businesses. I placed an order for a laptop few months ago from some online place, even before the RAM crisis. The company cancelled my order few days later citing "out of stock" , but when I went to their website, the laptop was still in-store but at a substantially higher price. I went to Trustpilot to complain, and found out I was not the only person they did this to. Reply
teeejay94 They were trying to do you a favor and keep you from buying 50 series hahahaha Reply
micheal_15 Check that laptop. They will have given slightly slower RAM or a 5070 etc to "clawback" some of the money. Reply
Khsaan I'm still waiting for an explanation as to why it was flagged as fraudulent. They advertised something for sale; someone ordered it. How is that fraud? Reply
CrabWalk Khsaan said: I'm still waiting for an explanation as to why it was flagged as fraudulent. They advertised something for sale; someone ordered it. How is that fraud? Could be that the address details didn't match those registered with the card, that the IP address was from a flagged location, that multiple purchases were tried to placed owing to a browser/server issue, the purchasers data could have been part of a data breach. Etc. etc. etc. Reply
Khsaan CrabWalk said: Could be that the address details didn't match those registered with the card, that the IP address was from a flagged location, that multiple purchases were tried to placed owing to a browser/server issue, the purchasers data could have been part of a data breach. Etc. etc. etc. Ah, all good points. It just struck me as a bit of a convenient excuse for cancelling the order. I do admit to being a massive cynic when it comes to the behaviour and transparency of corporates, though. Reply
scottscholzpdx Still not buying anything Corsair from now on. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/corsair-reverses-course-and-honors-gaming-pc-order-after-usd700-price-hike-uproar-order-was-erroneously-flagged-but-the-company-sends-a-coupon-to-the-buyer-to-snag-the-pc-at-the-original-price#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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