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Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer — Australian retailer refuses to replace faulty Corsair kit (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] kablez@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Ooof, that is a solid heads up, thank you!

I have bought some things from UMart out of convenience but always prefer to support my local independent PC stores. I guess this just reeenforces why the latter is so important!

[-] jmill@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Umart sounds like Best Buy in the US. Fuck Best Buy.

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