Razer Honors Sales From Its 90% Off Coupon Mishap

Faith in humanity restored.

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Earlier this week, gamers flooded the website of the video game accessories giant with a coupon code that took a whopping 90% off of its gear. Since the mistake has since been cleared up, Razer announced that they will still honor the transactions.

Today, Razer's co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan issued a statement regarding the flub.

“A few days ago, a coupon code that provided a discount of 90% off Razer products at our UK Razerzone store went viral and thousands of orders were placed in the space of a couple of hours. This coupon code was NOT authorized or approved by Razer and was generated by a third party to test our shopping cart (and left in our system unknown to us till now). When we discovered this, we had to shut down our site for a bit until we figured out what was going on.

While we have the option of cancelling the orders legally, we’ve always had a customer comes first policy at Razer and in respect of this incident, we have decided to honor the orders that were placed using the unauthorized code by Razer fans buying single products for their own use. Unfortunately, as the products are being sold well below their cost, it will likely cost us an insane amount of losses to make good on the orders which will really really hurt us as we’re still a small company  - that much said, we want to do right by the community. For orders in the multiples of units for a single product, we will still give each an opportunity to purchase one item of each product ordered at the 90% off discount but not for multiple units of the same product.  Our focus is on doing the right thing for our fans, the gamers and the community, not for resellers or users to profit from this. That’s not gaming, that’s not our deal.

So that’s the plan.  It’s going to take a few weeks (and up to a few months in certain cases) to get all these orders processed and shipped—a lot of stuff was already back-ordered due to high demand—and we ask that customers please bear with us. We apologize to anyone miffed or confused by this week’s happenings in the U.K., we appreciate everyone’s patience, and we thank all of our customers for their support. Game on…”

Since the coupon was only intended for Europe and Razer doesn't sell full systems in the region, there weren't any orders for higher ticketed items like the Razer Blade gaming laptop or Razer Edge tablet. 

[viaRazer]

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