Corsair Components
reviews and complaints

My first issue with corsair is the price gouging they are participating in. On November 25th, I placed an order for the *** screws at ***, overpriced already compared to competitors but nothing crazy. I needed another set for a new build and all of a sudden they are ***. Obviously this is not a huge amount of money, but when put into perspective it absolutely is. There is nothing special about the screws, they are cheap screws made in china. I asked customer support what the reasoning was for the 100 percent price increase, they said manufacturing costs. That is a blatant lie. I asked if the quality increased, which it did not. So what is the reasoning for the price increase other than to just extract more money from loyal customers in the middle of a recession? The screws should be included in their cooler boxes anyway. My second issue is they say on their site to allow 1 week for delivery, yet it has been over one week and they have not even shipped yet. So I asked customer support about that as well and their response was that the manufacturer has not sent them to Corsair yet. When I ordered the screws, it said they were in stock. So Corsair took my money because I was under the impression the screws were in stock, even though they were actually out of stock. They printed a shipping label to shut me up but according to *** they haven't received the package after 2 days since the label was printed. My third issue is that since I have already ordered these screws in the past, I wanted to place a review, which Corsair will not post on their website. I put the review in at the beginning of this week but it is still not showing up. So they either have nobody moderating the reviews, or they refuse to post negative reviews on their products. I tried finding reviews for other products on their site but could not find any, which is very sketchy.

Monday Oct. 18th I purchased a *** from Corsair for $2,353.99. I started having issues 2 days after it arrived with BSOD Crashes. After troubleshooting w/ tech support for the entire month of Nov. over the phone they were unable to diagnose and fix the *** I initially wanted to exchange it, but was told I only had 2 options; first to send it back and wait for the broken *** to be processed before they could send out a new one and pray they still had units in stock. (they only had 4 at the time, so that didn't seem likely) second option was to pay upfront for an entirely new system to be sent, and once Corsair received the broken one and processed it I would be reimbursed as if I had $2,000 extra dollars laying around. I asked if one could be placed on hold for me for a standard RMA and they said no, which felt incredibly unfair to me, as Corsair is at fault for sending me a broken *** and now I would be stuck without a work *** for quite sometime.I decided to ask for a full refund instead. I sent back the *** on Dec. 5th. Escalations Manager told me that once the product was received refunds are typically processed within 5 business days. The *** arrived at Corsairs warehouse on Dec. 8th, and again I notified the escalations manager and received an email saying I would get updates as the return was processing.The 5 business days passed, and I had received no word or update from anyone at the company about my return. I reached out and let them know it passed the 5 business day time frame and they said it should be complete soon, then proceeded to ignore me for 2 days after that. It's been 12 calendar days since they've received the , communication has been not good and I am beginning to worry. I told the rep I don't want to be a pain but I desperately need my money sent back because I need to buy a *** for work AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This is affecting my livelihood, and I just want my money back.Ticket # *** Order # *** Tracking # 1Z966E658796611049

first contacted under ticket *** to *** some ram i was having an issue with. agent refused to provide me RAM from the *** list even though another agent told me i should have that. i took his word for it and took the *** for 4 matched sticks he insisted this would fix the issue of having 4 miss matched sticks. i gave them money up front for the advanced *** so i get the kit of 4 matched sticks and it still don't work right... i lost $21.24 on this first *** due to them charging me in usd so when the refund came though i lost that much. so after contacting them back they refuse to give me a refund for the ram so i can go buy different ram. so we came to an agreement they would send me a dif kit with 2 sticks of 32gig memory sticks since the system worked with 2 sticks but not 4 they also agreed to send a free lighting kit to fill the other 2 slots with. it was then they told me id would have to again provide money up front to do this. i told them i had already lost $21.24 on the first RAM so they also agreed if i sent a screenshot of both refunds once the *** were complete they would cover that cost. so the replacements came they worked so great. then i get the second refund and that one had a loss of $26.18 even more this time. so i sent the screenshots as agreed from my *** they ignored me for 9 days it took 2 phone calls to get someone to reply to email now there refusing to honour what the agent agreed to. there saying because they gave me the free light kit they won't refund the losses but the free light kit was offered by then before the credit for the exchange rate losses and at no point before we agree to proceed with the *** did anyone tell me i could only have the light kit or the credit for the exchange rate losses.i would like a refund in the amount of $47.42 to cover the amount lost to exchange rate as we agreed to with there agent named FER i am attaching a print out of where he said they would do this and highlighted it on page 13.

I bought a Corsair power supply, which when I tried to turn on it did not turn on and in fact took out several components which caused me to have no computer. Since this was a Friday night I waited all weekend to call their customer service number. So when I call I find out I have to escalate it to another department. Ok no problem. It however becomes a problem when the customer service person comes on and tells me they do not have a number to transfer to and only second via email. How am I supposed to get an email when I do not have a computer and do not have data for my cell phone because of its expense? So I have to get data for my phone and find an old tablet I had so I can get and respond to their emails. I find out they do not recover the data and take no responsibility for any lost data, so I have to delay to get a quote on data recovery which turns out to be more than everything I currently have in my bank accounts. So so since I have to have the data on those drives I have to keep them and thus not get compensation for them. They send me a shipping label via email. I do not have a Bluetooth enabled printer, OR even an app on my tablet that can even he is the thing. So a downloaded app and a online printing order to a ups store and I was able to print the shipping label and letter they wanted me to include in the box. Then no communication for a while then an email asking if I sent the package. I told them almost 2 weeks ago. They said thanks then nothing for awhile. I sent an email asking if they got the package. No answer. Then suddenly an email from them saying our labs have determined that our power supply damaged your stuff, we are replacing the ram and power supply, and "market value" for these other three items you sent to us. ( Which is not market value but $15 dollars less than I can find it anywhere I can actually find.). Wow. To go back to when I was first talking to them via email. They would answer almost exactly 24 hours later just before their customer service would go home for the day. It made things frustrating and very slow. So now, not only am I not getting market value refund for the components I did send them but I am not getting anything for the two drives I could not send them because I needed the data on them but also other components I could not send them because they REQUIRED invoices or receipts for any and all components you send them, which for things I bought at my local electronic store years prior (for things like my DVD drive) I could not find, which was no surprise. So they basically are saying that we don`t care about all your stuff we will only replace stuff you have proof of purchase for. Which makes a certain amount of sense, but at the same time it leaves me high and dry when it comes to getting replacements for the things Iain need to get my computer running.

We ordered an in stock PSU on 05/06. At the time the website said it would be delivered within 3 days. We first contacted your customer service on the 11th after an hour wait we were told that our PSU had been picked up by a courier and that we would receive a tracking number on the 11th or 12th and to email back if we hadn't. We got a copy of that information through email and a ticket number. We never did and the email was not responded to. On the 13th or 14th we called and after another hour wait on the phone we were told very very rudely by the way that the product was NOT picked up by the courier and was waiting in the wearhouse. We were also told that it could take another 2 weeks to send the product but even that couldnt be confirmed. At this point I had left a negative review on Trustpiolet because of this review I was finally contacted by email. I asked why we were lied to about the package being picked up by the courier. This new employee then told us that "being picked up by the courier" was special language that the employees used and despite what common sense would tell you did not mean the a courier had received out package. That is gaslighting, absolutely ridiculous from a supposedly professional company. I asked for a discount and was offered 15% off. I accepted. The employee could not give us any information on when the PSU would be shipped. Today I was looking at the reviews on Trustpiolet for corsair.com. There are between 10-25 different review of people not receiving their PSUs from the past week. There is one review in which the person ordered a PSU on the 11th and an employee informed th that it shipped out on the 16th. This is absolutely ridiculous. If it is like your employees say that the company is working through a backlog this makes absolutely no sense. Mind you the PSU I ordered was NOT a back log. It was in stock. So if you are working through a backlog how does it makes sense that a person who ordered it 5 days after us had their PSU shipped before us, 6 days after they purchased it. We've almost been wait 2 weeks! How can an in stock PSU take that long to ship? Aparantly it doesn't for that guy. I emailed your employee earlier today asking about this and never got a response. Now because you guys don't work over the weekend I will not hear back from anyone until Monday at the earliest! My fiance need that park for his work! You are putting our our livelihoods at risk. Not only that but our other new parts return window has expired or is about to expire. We have not been able to test the because of your company's incompetence. If a part does not work and we can't return it it with be your fault. This has absolutely gone far past being able to be settled by 15% off. At this point I am led to believe that you have sold stock that you don't even have. This is absolutely unreasonable and unprofessional. I have left a review on Trustpiolet and will continue to update and have been discussing this on reddit on r/pcmasterrace, and I will continue to talk about it and leave reviews were I can. I will amend this if this ever gets solved appropriately.