Tired of Amazon Prime? Best Buy's annual membership is on sale for just $25
Save 50%: As of Feb. 23, My Best Buy Plus annual memberships are on sale for $24.99. Compared to their $49.99 full price, you'll save $25 total. You have to pay in full up-front, but cost-wise, this deal brings the membership down to a cost of just $2.08 per month.
Amazon Prime may be one the most popular shopping memberships, but it's not your only worthwhile option — especially when other ones go on sale.
Case in point: as of Feb. 23, My Best Buy Plus annual memberships are on sale for just $24.99 , bringing their cost down to just $2.08 per month — though you will have to pay in full upfront. Typically, the annual cost would run you $49.99 (or $4.16 per month).
For comparison, Prime will run you $14.99 per month, or $139 up front for the year (which calculates out to about $11.58 per month). While Amazon's service does come with plenty of perks like Prime Video and GrubHub savings, if you're looking for strictly shopping benefits, Best Buy may be the more cost effective route for you.
So what exactly do you get with a Best Buy Plus membership? In addition to free two-day shipping, Plus members enjoy early access to sales, an extended 60-day return window on most of Best Buy's catalog, and exclusive sale pricing on regular items and Best Buy Drops. For instance, at the time of writing, both the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air and Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 earbuds have exclusive Plus member-only markdowns.
Best Buy does offer a free membership option that gives shoppers access to free shipping. They also offer a more premium membership tier, My Best Buy Total, which for $179.99 gives customers access to more round-the-clock tech support and repair services.
Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she's covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she's now done for three years at Mashable.
