Best Buy

Under the weight of online bargain hunters, even Best Buy’s servers have been trampled this Black Friday. Its site is currently suffering some severe technical difficulties because of all the traffic. Update: Fixed!

You Can Now Buy the Nexus 9 and Nexus Player on the Google Play Store

The time for pre-orders is over. You can now pick up HTC’s Nexus-powered tablet and Asus’ set-top hockey puck from the Google Play Store. The tab has also been posted on Best Buy’s website. Some variants are still missing from the Google Play store, specifically the “Sand” colored version as well as any equipped with…

Best Buy Will Deliver a Dryer for Free But the Power Cord Has a $70 Fee

What with Amazon and Google Shopping Express winning the world’s laziest misanthropes’ affections, other companies are left doing everything they can to stay in the fight. In Best Buy’s case, that means offering free shipping on major appliances—and (apparently) praying that folks don’t realize the $30 required cord ships for more than double that. Discovered…

Best Buy is selling $100 iTunes or App Store giftcards for just $85 shipped, a pretty surprising savings in the Apple ecosystem. [Best Buy via 9to5Toys]

Save on a Chromecast or Pebble Watch with a .edu Email Address

If you haven’t picked up a Chromecast for every TV in your home yet, Best Buy has one of the first discounts we’ve seen on the little dongle today. If you can furnish the site with a valid .edu email address, you’ll be able to pick one up for $30, or $5 less than retail.…

Where to Sell Your iPad or iPad Mini For the Most Money

Next Tuesday Apple is hosting its annual iPad-palooza where it will surely show us iPads big and small. But before the big event, you might want to get rid of your old ‘pad to recoup some cash. So where to sell your tablet for the most moolah? https://gizmodo.com/apple-will-announce-the-new-ipads-on-oct-22nd-1445584009 To simplify things, we searched for the…

Got an old smartphone you’re wishing was an iPhone 5S or 5C? Best Buy just confirmed they’re knocking at least $100 off a new iPhone when you trade in a working smartphone October 13th through 19th. [AllThingsD]

Best Buy’s Selling the iPhone 5C for $50 This Weekend (Update: Others)

The iPhone 5C will be on sale at Best Buy all weekend for $50 off. Holy smokes that’s a good deal, and just two weeks after the iPhone 5C hit stores. According the ABC News, Best Buy will be giving customers a $50 gift card with the iPhone 5C until Monday October 7th, and you…

Artist Pranks Best Buy Shoppers With a Fake Useless Plastic Black Box

Shopping for electronics at Best Buy already feels like some kind of hidden camera prank, with staff who never want to help and rarely know a thing about the gear they’re selling. But an artist who refers to himself as Plastic Jesus—which apparently is not a gag—took things one step further by secretly stocking Best…

Chromecast Is Back In Stock At Best Buy (Updated)

Google’s Chromecast streaming TV dongle is once again available from Best Buy (Update: it’s on 1-2 week backorder again). As before, the unit costs $35, with free shipping. With lots of capability and a steadily increasing list of streaming services supporting it, Chromecast sold out quickly when it first hit the market. If you were…

The Retina MacBook Pro Is More Than $300 Off at Best Buy

There are sales, and there are $ALE$. This is the latter. Today and tomorrow only, you can get a retina MacBook Pro—13-inch or 15-inch, two configurations each—for $200 off at Best Buy. Have a valid .edu email address? Make that $300. And that’s just for starters. The deal, part of Best Buy’s two-day Black Friday…

You Might Be Able to Snag a New Nexus 7 at Best Buy Today

If the idea of getting your hands on a new Nexus 7 is keeping you up at night, there may be some good news:according to Engadget, it sounds like some Best Buy stores will have stock from as early as this morning. A tipster, claiming to be the manager of a Best Buy store, told…

Best Buy Will Give You $200 to Trade in Your Old iPad

If that ageing iPad 2 is proving too slow for you, or your iPad 3 is ounces too heavy, good news: Best Buy isre-launching its $200 iPad trade-in program. From July 23rd, Best Buy will take your iPad 2 or 3—as long as it’s not water damaged or sporting a cracked display—when you buy a…

Best Buy Will Give You At Least $200 for Your Old iPad 2 or iPad 3

That old iPad 2 of yours too blurry for your precious eyes? That fantastically beautiful screen on the iPad 3 too heavy to lift for your puny muscles? Best Buy is willing to take those old tablets off your hands for at least 200 bucks. This Friday June 12th and Saturday June 13th, Best Buy…

Best Buy Is Recalling Thousands of MacBook Pro Batteries Over Fire Risk

Best Buy is recalling 5,100 third-party replacement MacBook Pro batteries after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 13 separate cases in which the batteries caught fire, at least one of which caused serious injury. Both black and white varieties of the ATG lithium-ion replacement batteries are being recalled, all of which were sold between…

Weekend Dealzmodo: Save $125 on an iMac

If you’ve been looking to pick up a new Macbook or iMac, at this point it might be worth waiting until Best Buy does one of its weekend sales. About every month or so Best Buy has been running a 48-hour sale on Mac computers. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-slim-imac-is-your-deal-of-the-day-5995446 Right now they’ve cut $125 off four different models…

Get $50 Off an iPhone at Best Buy From Sunday

From Sunday, Best Buy is knocking $50 off the price off the price of iPhones for four weeks. The deal applies to the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 on two-year contracts with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. So, if you’ve been umm-ing and ahh-ing, now might be the time to stump up some cash.…

Samsung Is Building 1,400 Retail Stores Inside Best Buys

In a bid to compete more directly with Apple, Samsung has announced that in the coming months it will open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within Best Buy stores around the US. Following an agreement made by Sammy and Best Buy in December, the venture will see 900 stores open across the country by May, with…

Best Buy’s Deal of the Day Ad Uses (GASP!) a Jailbroken iPad (Updated)

Can you spot anything amiss in today’s Best Buy Deal of the Day page? Anything out of the ordinary? Look a little closer. Still don’t see it? Here’s a better look: That’s right! Hiding out among all the boring lazy stock iOS apps is Cydia. Good ol’ Cydia, app haven to jailbroken miscreants the world…

Best Buy is making price-match permanent starting March 3, but their return policy is dropping to 15 days. [Consumerist]