When sales roll around, the temptation is to gravitate toward big-ticket items, mercifully accompanied by smaller price-tags. OLED TVs, sound systems, and so on. We've picked out the best Prime Day deals under £50 for those discerning bargain-hunters with smaller budgets. There's still plenty to be found for anyone with a dash of good taste.
Looking for a new LEGO set? We’ve got you covered. A bottle of whiskey for a special occasion? Look no further. Or maybe you just want some cheap-as-chips back-up headphones that don’t offend your ears. They’re in here, too, and plenty more besides.
Find the rest of our Gear team's picks of all the best Prime Day deals in the UK right here.
If you want a really good wireless gaming headset, you’re probably going to need to break that £50 ceiling. But if you’re happy to put the scissors away there are plenty of very good wired options to consider, like the Razer Kraken X. Designed to be used with any console or PC that offers you a 3.5mm headphone jack, the Kraken X is lightweight, comfortable, and sports 40mm drivers that sound pretty great. Use it with a PC and you can also enjoy 7.1 virtual surround sound.
Featured in our work-from-home guide from the dark days of 2020, this is one of those office gadgets that you never knew you needed until it’s sat next to your laptop, at which point it becomes indispensable. On one side you’ll find a red microfiber pad designed to tackle those irksome screen smudges and keyboard marks, and on the other a pop-out brush that digs out the lunch crumbs that have been nestled between your keys for far too many days/weeks/years. Check out the rest of the Good Grips range too.
We recently tried out this trimmer as part of our beard trimmer group test. It wasn’t the winner, but it was a top-value pick, at significantly more than you have to pay this Prime Day. It’s a sturdy and quiet-running trimmer that has length adjustment built right into the body of the unit, through a twist dial. While the width of the head isn’t ideal for fine detail work, it doesn’t half make cutting down larger areas of your face quick.
The true LEGO nerds among you have likely made an X-Wing before. But we’re listing buys for present shoppers as well as those engaging in a bit of retail therapy. This popular and long-standing kit has sold for between £36 and £45 throughout 2023, making it a solid buy even if a five-year-old could count the savings out in pound coins. It’s a 474-piece kit recommended for ages nine and up. Three minifigs are included and when built it is 31cm long.
A step up from your average pestle and mortar—and an essential for any decent guacamole or hummus—this heavyweight kitchen staple is carved from natural granite and features a multifunctional bamboo lid that doubles as a miniature chopping board. It even has a neat groove for storing the pestle when not in use—and, if you want to keep dust out of the mortar, a lid is essential (nobody wants a dusty pesto on a Friday night). Mix, grind, pulverize, and pound both wet and dry ingredients in typical Joseph Joseph style.
If you want to try out that air fryer life but only have £50 to spend, you can’t quite stretch to a Ninja. But a Tower model is not out of the question. The main sacrifices you make here are in screens and modes. There is no screen. There are no programmable modes. But if you’re the kind of person who never even set their microwave’s clock, this might actually suit you. There’s just a time knob and a temperature knob. Bliss. This is a 4.3L capacity air fryer, suitable for meals for 1-2 people.
While we may be a bit concerned about the abundance of video game remakes we’re getting at the moment, there’s no denying that Capcom’s superb redo of its survival horror classic is some of the most fun you can have with a controller this year. And at £42 on Prime Day it’s much easier to justify for those who already own the original game on several different platforms. Why the PS5 version? Well, it uses the DualSense really well, and we know that a VR port is already in development for PS VR 2 for those who think they have the stomach for it.
This fitness band pulls off quite some feats considering it only costs a little under £40 this Prime Day. For example, it calculates your estimated VO2 Max, one of the classic metrics to monitor long-term fitness. It’s the stuff of enthusiast Garmin watches, not a cheap step counter. The 1.62-inch OLED screen is lovely too, the battery lasts two weeks and it will even take blood oxygen saturation readings. There’s no full GPS here, but as long as you go out for runs and walks with a phone, it can map your routes.
We called these deceptively brilliant buds our 8/10 ‘hidden gem’ when testing Amazon’s seemingly bottomless selection of cheap in-ear headphones, so at £28, they’re approaching must-buy territory. You can expect plenty of detail in your tunes, surprisingly impactful bass, responsive touch controls, and decent battery life. AirPods-killers these are not, but they’re easily worth the near £50 price tag we originally tested them at, let alone this potty Prime Day asking price.
What's this? Just £40 for one of Logitech’s most popular office mice ever is a bit of a Prime Day no-brainer. The Master MX 2S works on pretty much any surface and can be connected to up to three computers at once, making it a multitasking mainstay in our own desk setup. Battery life is great, and handy features like speed-adaptive scrolling elevate this computing companion above many of its competitors.
Amazon’s marketplace is flooded with thermal-insulated drinking bottles, so it’s hard to know which one to buy. We give Contigo’s the nod, and not just because it’s on sale. It’ll keep your drinks cool for up to 28 hours and features an integrated button lock that prevents the valve from popping open when it’s nestled next to your expensive electronics in a backpack. There are plenty of funky colors to choose from, too.
On paper, a £6 discount doesn’t sound like something to shout excitedly about, but Anker’s Soundcore Mini was already one of the best bargains in audio. At its Prime Day price, this Bluetooth speaker is a bit of a steal. Compact enough to easily fit into a handbag, it makes other so-called portable speakers look enormous, but the muscular sound quality belies its small size. You can expect 15 hours of battery too, while the 66ft Bluetooth range allows you to wander to the fridge without worrying about your poolside playlist cutting out.
With Father’s Day well and truly in the rear-view mirror, perhaps you want to treat yourself to a bottle of discounted Woodford Reserve, a smooth and deliciously spicy bourbon that can be enjoyed as a summer nightcap or saved for those cold winter nights that’ll be upon us before we know it. Or, you know, both. Our tipple? Old-fashioned cocktails all year round.
A smart plug is categorically not a glamorous Prime Day pickup, but it is the fastest way to turn your dumb house into something resembling a smart one. This Alexa-enabled plug allows you to add voice control to any electrical socket in your home, so suddenly your old lamps, laptop chargers, and coffee machines can be bossed around from the other side of the room. Routines and schedules can be set up in the Alexa app.
Online prices for this Oral-B electric toothbrush vary wildly, but £40 is a good deal. With the Pro 3 you get everything the vast majority of people need from an electric toothbrush: multiple cleaning modes, 360-degree pressure-sensing, and a timer. A travel case and charger are included, too.
We rate the imaginatively named Echo Dot With Clock as the best Alexa speaker for bedrooms because it’s small enough to sit on your bedside table and clock-y enough to banish your usual alarm to the drawer. The Echo Dot has the same form factor as the larger Echo (also on sale today), and while the smaller speaker naturally lacks its bigger brother’s sonic oomph, it sounds more than good enough for morning radio and news blasts. Sticking with the Alexa theme, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max (£38) is also under £50 today and well worth considering now it supports Wi-Fi 6.
What happens when you combine a timeless board game with one of the most beloved film series ever? Huge arguments, obviously. A board game is a board game, after all. This special edition Star Wars Scrabble game goes all in on the little details, from starship-themed movers to the Aurebesh characters (the alphabet of the galaxy, but you knew that didn’t you?) on the letter tiles. Showing off your Star Wars vocab is very much encouraged here, but you can still play a regular old game of Scrabble for those who don’t know their Jedi from their Jedha.
This tiny little card has proved to be one of the biggest hitters of Prime Day. We knew it would because the performance-to-price ratio is off the charts with this one. It achieves a V30 certification, meaning it can write at a constant speed of at least 30MB/s. That may not sound like much, but you have to take the jump to a SanDisk Extreme card, at more than double the cost, to reach such a level from the market leader.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
