Cornelia R.
I've bought a HyperX cloud II wireless…
I've bought a HyperX cloud II wireless directly from HyperX's website. I'm mostly satisfied with the headset, battery life, sound and connectivity are all decent for it's price. The one downside is that the headset's cushion start to flake after what I consider to be a shorter than desired time. I've owned these for about 3 years and the flaking issue started around 2 years. I use them irregularly, sometimes a few hours a day a week, sometimes weeks that I don't use them. I handle my things with care, the headset is not lying around in direct sunlight or humidity or what not. I naively believed that HyperX would sell replacement cushions, but I couldn't find them anywhere on the website, so I reached out to support using their chat. The chat agent told me that they didn't sell replacement cushions, but that possibly they could send me a pair as a sign of goodwill, and asked me for a serial nr to confirm the model of headset I own, a number which I then provided. But then the agent complained that while it matched the required format, the number did not match their system. The agent asked me to make a picture (probably assuming I misread or made a mistake). I made the picture, and uploaded it to imgur (a commonly used image sharing website). The agent then complained that they could not accept untrusted links, and that he would only accept oneDrive/sharePoint links. Services which I do not care to use. (the chat doesn't allow you to upload a file either) But all of this image sharing nonsense was beyond the point because I gave him the exact serial number, I was looking at it while we typed, the nr on a headset as received ordered from the original HyperX website. Make it make sense. I told the agent once again that the serial nr was as I typed, that there where no "other numbers" on the headset, and that when I opened NGENUITY, (their own software) that it also confirmed that the model I own is a cloud II wireless. After which the agent ended the chat. I wasn't looking for a hand-out, I actually accepted that I would have to spend money on the replacements. I would have payed for them and/or the shipping if they had given me the option to do so. The neglible risk of them being the wrong ones I would have accepted. It felt like they didn't actually want to actually help me at any point. HyperX not selling replacement cushions to expand the life cycle of perfectly good headsets is also pretty wasteful and anti right-to-repair of HyperX. I guess I will be buying 3rd party replacement cushions, and will not be buying or recommending HyperX again.



