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

Supposedly owned by PC Partner Group. I used to have a 440BX PC Partner mobo back in the day. Served me for many years and I was even able to sell it to a friend afterwards. Inno3D is also owned by them and haven't heard bad things about that brand.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
The new year is off to a rough start for some after orders from Corsair, and now ZOTAC were cancelled and then re-upped at a higher price.

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Is that even legal? They can claim it's a mistake, but then reposting the product at a markup makes it look awfully shady. Once you agree upon a price that should be it.
 
DrMrLordX said:
Is that even legal? They can claim it's a mistake, but then reposting the product at a markup makes it look awfully shady. Once you agree upon a price that should be it.
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To make it easy legal, all they would have to do is change the SKU. The reason for the change can be arbitrary really... but once the SKU changes they can legit say they were out of what you ordered and could only fulfill your order with a different part at a higher price.

Now - they probably didn't even do that. As far as contract law goes - I don't know how the legality of pulling this stunt without changing the SKU would play... especially if they had charged your card and accepted your money. If they hadn't charged the credit card or account yet though, they may have a different loophole there.

Probably something in the T&Cs that no one ever reads that says they can cancel and refund at any time up until your receipt of product though.
 
Meh, I've owned a few Zotac GPUs over the years and abused them far more than most of you ever will without any issues.

I've also owned plenty of Gigabyte and Asus that have crapped the bed. Along with XFX, MSI and EVGA. Zotac is about the only company I've not had to deal with their RMA department.
 
I don't remember, I move GPUs around a lot.

I don't think any of my current fleet of GPUs are Zotac. Last time I can actually remember buying them was the first time I bought them. Which were the Nvidia 900 series cards. 970 and 980 Ti cards. I just remember being extremely impressed by how massive the heatsinks were on those models vs the other cards I had. Never had any issues with them before selling them. After that I had no issues buying them.

I'd have to go look at all my hosts to see what cards I have in them now. I just know the models I don't really remember the make of them.
 
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