There is the factory seconds stock, which is cheaper, but RAM, storage, Wi-Fi card, power brick and expansion cards are sold separately. https://frame.work/products/factory-seconds-framework-laptop-13-diy-edition-11th-gen-intel-core Still over your price range though.

I was wondering where the dankpods would be

In my eyes that makes it even worse

Wait, lemmy allows editing of titles?