A Troubling Trend Is Growing as PC Hardware Manufacturers Cancel Orders Only to Repost the Same Product at a Higher Price

I saw this as well. Just makes me trust an Amazon over any distinct manufacturer.

Right now Corsair and Zotac are on my **** list. Corsair slightly less so.
 
I never liked Zotac. Their GPUs are the cheapest in my region and never once did I feel the need to get even a RTX 5050 because they have a reputation of using crappy thermal solution and their fans are noisy and die early. I do have a Zotac 3090 I bought used for $652 but the seller had it repasted and replaced all the thermal pads and the temps under load seemed nothing to be concerned about. Plus, that story where Zotac support told the user they could throw their card away at no charge...man, how scummy and desperate must they be for making a few dollars at the expense of their customers!

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1pe7ht9/just_a_warning_if_your_planning_to_buy_a_zotac
 
Zotac is at the top of my ****list right now. And I'm always eyeballing a 5090... it's a problem lol.

Corsair slightly less so because they have made some people right that got caught up in their markup extravaganza.
 
Corsair is the worst offender on the Reddit PC subs, for doing DDR owners dirty on RMAs. Zotac has always been :poop: tier.
 
I think it is easy and simplistic to lash out at Corsair and Zotac. I am not dismissing or forgetting any behavior just keeping perspective that those companies and many others are also victims of the AI boom and greedy chip makers.

GEEZE - I just AI'd how long and how much to open a new fab. Takes twice as long in the US too.

12-18 months in Taiwan
4.5-5 years in the US
25+ billion US $ for state of the art facilities
 
Elf_Boy said:
I think it is easy and simplistic to lash out at Corsair and Zotac. I am not dismissing or forgetting any behavior just keeping perspective that those companies and many others are also victims of the AI boom and greedy chip makers.

GEEZE - I just AI'd how long and how much to open a new fab. Takes twice as long in the US too.

12-18 months in Taiwan
4.5-5 years in the US
25+ billion US $ for state of the art facilities
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The problem here isn't that Zotac and Corsair are raising prices. If they are taking orders ahead of production without a contract signed for supplies to meet the demand of sed production already on contract at negotiated rates (as is expected) then pricing their goods based on those rates then they are bad at business.

What I suspect is happening here is they have done exactly that and have established costs but are profiteering in the worst way possible and cancelling standing orders at the lower cost because the market at large currently demands a higher cost.

So they are increasing their profit on orders already sold by cancelling them and forcing customers to re-order or simply not buy from them.

In this case they are the worst kind of vendor and need to be called out for it.
 
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