Generally, Prime Day is an excellent time to nab yourself a deal on everything from full gaming PCs to SSDs to the most tempting of forbidden fruit, but not everything is quite as generous an offer as the big red "Prime Day Sale" sticker would have you believe. In fact, some of the stuff that's gotten a price cut is downright laughable: barely more than an attempt to offload some unwanted stock to unsuspecting punters.
Not you and me, of course, because you're here reading about all the best deals that we've painstakingly uncovered in the Bezos deal mines. But I guarantee you that someone, somewhere out there has dropped four figures on an RTX 30-series gaming laptop and thought they'd snagged themselves a bargain.
A moment of silence for them, please.
- BTW, we're MANUALLY curating all the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.
At least it's good comedy for the rest of us, though. So, if I may, here are five of the worst and strangest offers I've stumbled across as I've pored through this Prime Day's many, many deals.
No one should be spending over a thousand American dollars for a laptop that somehow manages to tote an RTX 2050 despite coming out last year. I don't even know how that happens. Perhaps someone is stuck in the LG Gram factory and this is the only way they have to tell the outside world something is wrong.
Once upon a time, maybe, this would have been a perfectly adequate deal, but that time has long since passed. Dropping nearly a grand on this machine would be a strange move at the best of times, but right now you can get a totally different Asus laptop—the Asus ROG X13 Flow—for 20 bucks less than this one, and that comes with double the storage, double the RAM, and the exact same GPU. It's a no-brainer.
You can, right now, as we speak, acquire a gaming PC with a current-gen Intel CPU, an RTX 40-series GPU, and a 1TB SSD for a mere $989.99, so colour me confused that anyone would go out of their way to spend an extra ten bucks on a tower with a last-gen chip and a GTX 1660 Super whirring way in its innards. Is it the optical drive? It's probably the optical drive. I bet the Zoomers are all about burning CD-Rs these days.
I mean, to be fair, considering this is a kind of Kendall Roy "I literally don't even know what money is" PC build where someone has just picked all the biggest and bestest parts off a shelf and shoved them into a case, the price isn't exactly a shocker. But if you've recently knocked over a bank, you could do much smarter things with your ill-gotten gains. Take, for example, this Cobratype RTX 4090 that will get you pretty much the exact same oomph for over $300 less.
Okay, this is kind of cheating because I don't think this is meant to be a gaming chair despite being called a "game chair". I'm fairly certain you're meant to lounge in this as you play baccarat with your Reform Club chums after a long hard day of owning lots of things and people that make money for you. Nevertheless, it keeps coming up when I search for a "gaming chair prime day deal," and I'm now absolutely desperate to replace my own desk chair setup with this sumptuous leather-and-studs behemoth so that I can start Putting On Airs in meetings. Sorry, was this meant to be the worst Prime Day deals? This is clearly the best.
