These Prime Day deal duds have me wondering if some companies missed the point
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.
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.
LG Gram | Nvidia RTX 2050 | 12th Gen Intel i7 CPU | 16-inch | 1600p | 144Hz | 16GB DDR4 | 1TB SSD | $1,355 $1,249.99 on AmazonA nice screen, a decent chip, and a roomy hard drive are all let down by that aged and underpowered GPU.
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.
ASUS TUF Dash 15 | Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti | Intel i7 11370H CPU | 15.6-inch | 144Hz | 8GB DDR4 | 512GB SSD | $969.99$869.99 on Amazon A good deal in a past life, this laptop has been seriously outcompeted in this year's Prime Day, particularly in terms of
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