A user is very lucky and finds 64 GB DDR4 RAM for only 100 US dollars in a shop. The official price according to the manufacturer is significantly higher. Currently, prices are still rising, and an improvement is not in sight.
What did the user buy? On Reddit, the user posted a photo showing two packs of memory, each with 32 GB DDR4. On the individual packages, you can see the price tag from the Walmart store: 50 US dollars for each package. In total, that is 100 US dollars that the user paid here. Converted and rounded up, it’s about 90 euros.
This can certainly be called a real bargain: According to the manufacturer’s official information, the memory currently costs 278.99 US dollars per 32 GB DDR4; for a comparable set, you pay between 260 and 270 euros in Germany (via Geizhals.de).
Just to give you a comparison: In August 2025, you had to pay about 120 euros for the same set. The price has more than doubled in less than a year.
Memory supposedly so cheap because they wanted to clear the stock
Why is memory so cheap? Some users speculate that this must be a pricing error. Such pricing errors happen frequently and are often coldly exploited by users.
A user in the comments claims to be a former employee and explains in a post on Reddit that the RAM was so cheap because it is a discontinued model. That’s why they are lowering the price so much to clear the shelf for use with other items:
I am a former Walmart employee. Discounts like these occur because this item is no longer sold in the stores. Instead of wasting shelf space for it, they lower the price to a ridiculously low level to get rid of the stock.
Such clearance actions are not uncommon, by the way. In Germany, we know this mainly from shoe or clothing stores that sell old fashions at reduced prices in sales to make room for new goods.
A user reports that his father’s company bought new servers. In this context, the company also replaced the installed memory. However, they apparently couldn’t do anything with the old hardware, so the company disposed of the replaced memory modules in the garbage: Two years ago, he rescued 2,304 GB of memory from the garbage: Today, the hardware is priceless, but useless for him.
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