The Price Is Right fans slam ‘dumbest’ and ‘aggressively useless’ prizes

Fans slammed The Price Is Right on Reddit, calling prizes like a $7,500 tent trailer and bulky photo booths “aggressively useless”

The Price Is Right may be known for handing out dream vacations and new cars, but some longtime viewers say not every prize is a winner.

Fans of the long-running CBS game show took to Reddit this week to call out what they described as the most impractical, and sometimes laughable, prizes regularly featured on the series, now in its 54th season.

One Reddit user singled out a $7,500 TreeHaus camping trailer as the worst prize.

“You have to register it, get plates for it, install a trailer hitch, and tow it, which reduces your fuel economy by at least 5 mpg and makes parking and reversing a nightmare,” they wrote.

“In exchange for that you get… a tent. No bathroom, no shower, no fresh water, no stove, no field kitchen, no refrigeration, no lights, no AV, no power outlets. Just a four-person tent, which is like $250 at Costco… It’s aggressively useless.”

“It’s quite tall and looks like it would just end up being stuck in a corner collecting dust for 99% of the time,” one commenter said.

A former contestant added, “It was one of the prizes when I played Race Game. I wasn’t sad I didn’t win it.”

“The digital photo booth. Or the exercise mirrors that require a subscription to use,” another user agreed.

Some noted that while items like selfie stations or karaoke machines could potentially be rented for events, they’re still impractical in most homes.

“The photo booth/selfie stations, the light-up dance floor, the cheap-looking bamboo tiki bars, the karaoke packages…” another wrote, listing off a series of prizes seen on the show that they considered “useless.”

Fans also took issue with oversized or brightly colored kitchen appliances that wouldn’t fit in the average kitchen.

“You would have to change your whole kitchen around just for it to match,” one user said.

Several pointed out the awkwardness of winning a trip to a place a contestant already lives.

“I don’t know if it’s really useless,” a commenter said, “but I always find it funny when people receive a ‘vacation’ to a state they live in. I saw a woman win a trip to Vermont. That’s great for someone else, but she was from Vermont.”