As the second day of the Amazon Prime Early Access sale rages on, we've spotted numerous good PC gaming deals, especially on SSDs. Lurking out among them however, are some truly terrible deals waiting to strike at your wallet. It doesn't matter what the discount is: you don't need gamer socks.
Like any major retail 'holiday,' you can find incredible deals and some not-so-great deals. Some sellers will inflate their prices before discounting them, so they can jam a higher 'was' price in there to make it look like a bigger win for us. Sorting through the thousands of products on sale can be overwhelming.
Personally, I like to look at each product's price history using sites like CamelCamelCamel. Here you can paste in the product name or URL, and it'll spit the entire price history, including with 3rd-party Amazon resellers.
There are two types of bad deal: Good products that appear to have been marked down, but are actually selling for near or at their usual price, and terrible products that we wouldn't recommend whether or not they're legitimately discounted.
Take, for example, this WD Black 4TB SSD on "sale" for $479.99. The product is marked down from the list price of $949.99, a 50% discount. Based on the price history, however, this SSD has been at this price for months, and right before Prime Early Access started, the price was jacked back up to its original 2020 launch price of $949.99.
Ironically, an example of a not-so-awful SSD deal comes from WD Black, too. This 1TB SN850 NVMe SSD for $148 is actually the lowest price it's ever been.
Below I've collected some really bad deals you should avoid at all costs and paired them with alternative deals that are actually worth your time and money.
SSDs
Headsets
Gaming Chairs
TVs
Gamer Socks
I'm still on the hunt for good gamer socks. I'm starting to think they don't exist.
