Best Buy announced on Wednesday a new haul-away recycling service for technology products and appliances. For $200, the company will come to your home and take away your unwanted TVs, PC monitors, kitchen appliances, and more.
Best Buy’s Standalone Haul-Away service takes up to two large items, like all-in-one computers, TVs of various types, cooktops, and refrigerators. They also take an unlimited number of smaller pieces of tech and appliances, like laptops, hard drives, video game consoles, keyboards, calculators, and curling irons. But there are some things even Best Buy doesn’t want, like your old 8-tracks, DVDs, Blu-rays, software, instruments, toasters, and waffle makers. You can see a full list of what Best Buy will and won’t take here.
Best Buy will give a 20 percent discount on the service to members of Best Buy Totaltech, which includes services like 24/7/365 Geek Squad access and free 2-day shipping for $200 a year.
While Best Buy will already get rid of your old TV and large appliance for $30 and some fitness equipment for $50 if you buy a replacement from them, the Standalone Haul-Away service doesn’t require any other purchase, beyond the $160-$200 fee. It also doesn’t accept fitness equipment.
Of course, there are cheaper ways to get rid of old tech and appliances. There are free tech and appliance recycling programs, including government-run ones, that let you drop off your products or leave them at the curb. Best Buy itself has a drop-off program that gives you gift cards in exchange for up to three recyclable tech and appliances per day. You could also donate products, assuming they’re of any use still.
But for people who have physical limitations or no vehicle, or live in tall walk-up apartment buildings, hauling something like a rear-projection big-screen TV out the front door could be impossible. Now, you can save yourself the backache and/or trip, and make space for your new OLED TV, as well as your bank account.
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