In general, Prime Day is a great opportunity to get great deals on everything from full gaming PCs to SSDs to the most tempting forbidden fruit, but not everything is offered as generously as the big red "Prime Day Sale" stickers would have you believe. In fact, some of the reduced prices are downright laughable. They are merely trying to sell off unwanted inventory to unsuspecting shoppers.

Not you or me, of course. You are here reading about the best deals we have painstakingly scoured through the Bezos deal mine. However, I guarantee you that someone somewhere has put a four-figure price on an RTX 30-series gaming laptop and thinks they're getting a bargain.

Please take a moment of silence for them.

At least it's good comedy for us. So, in the course of perusing the many deals this Prime Day, here are five of the worst and strangest offers I've stumbled across.

No one should spend more than $1,000 on a laptop that somehow manages to have an RTX 2050, even though it was released last year. I don't even know how that could happen. Perhaps someone is stuck in the LG Gram factory and this is the only way to tell the outside world that something is wrong.

Once upon a time, maybe, this would have been a perfectly appropriate deal, but that time is long past. Throwing nearly $1,000 at this machine is a strange move at best, but now you can get a completely different Asus laptop - the Asus ROG X13 Flow - for $20 less than this, with twice the storage and RAM, and the exact same GPU. This is a no-brainer.

As we speak, you can get a gaming PC with a current generation Intel CPU, RTX 40 series GPU, and 1TB SSD for just $989.99. Could it be the optical drive? I guess Zoomer is into burning CD-Rs these days.

I mean, to be fair, the price isn't exactly shocking, given that this is the kind of Kendall Roy "literally don't even know what money is" PC build where someone just picked the biggest and best parts off the shelf and shoved them into a case. But if you've recently broken the bank, you can do smarter things with your ill-gotten gains. With this Cobratype RTX 4090, for example, you can get the exact same power for over $300 less.

Now, this is a bit of a cheat, because despite being called a "gaming chair," I don't believe this is a gaming chair. I am convinced that after a long day of owning lots of people and things that make money for me, this chair is for relaxing in while playing baccarat with my fellow Reform Club members. That said, if you do a search for "gaming chair prime day," this chair comes up again and again. I am now eager to replace my desk chair with this gorgeous leather and studded behemoth and start getting into the swing of things at meetings. Sorry, but was this meant to be the worst bargain of Prime Day?