Best Buy's Black Friday event is here — these are the best deals from the sale

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Best Buy's Black Friday sale is officially live. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable

UPDATE: Nov. 17, 2023, 12:30 p.m. EST This story has been updated with new early Black Friday deals from Best Buy.

A quick look at Best Buy's top early Black Friday deals:

Best TV deal
LG 48-inch A2 Series OLED 4K TV
$549.99 + free 3-month Apple TV+ subscription (save $750)
the LG 48-inch A2 Series OLED 4K Smart TV


Best tablet deal
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (Intel Core i5-1235U, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) with Surface Pro Keyboard
$999.99 + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription (save $540)
a front view of a Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with a surface pro keyboard attached to it

Best monitor deal
the HP OMEN 27-inch QHD Gaming Monitor


Best headphones deal
Sony WH-1000XM5
$329.99 (save $70)
the Sony WH-1000XM5

Best smartwatch deal
Fitbit Charge 6
$99.95 (save $60)
the Fitbit Charge 6


Best kitchen appliance deal
the Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo cooking a pizza

Best smart home deal
Arlo Pro 4 Spotlight Camera Security Bundle
$279.99 (save $320; extra $20 off for paid My Best Buy members)
the Arlo Pro 4 Spotlight Camera Security Bundle

Best Buy's Black Friday event is here.

The nine-day affair will run from Nov. 17 (a week before the actual holiday) through Saturday, Nov. 25, and feature a bevy of deals across a wide variety of categories, from tech to home goods and more.

That calendar concludes with a Cyber Monday Savings Event featuring "savings [of] up to 50% on top gifts" from Sunday, Nov. 26 to Monday, Nov. 27 (or actual Cyber Monday), but additional deals will likely succeed it. Last year, Best Buy hosted a series of 24-hour flash sales called 20 Days of Deals throughout December.

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Credit: Best Buy

Best Buy was the first major retailer to announce its Black Friday plans on Oct. 17 (followed by Target, Walmart, and finally Amazon), and it's been the busiest so far: Alongside its Black Friday and Cyber Monday events, Best Buy is dishing out elusive releases and exclusive discounts as part of its new app-exclusive Best Buy Drop program throughout the holidays. It's also hosting a new series of livestreamed holiday shopping events spotlighting popular gift ideas and some limited-time deals.

All Best Buy Black Friday deals are available in limited quantities with no rain checks, and items that sell out right away may not get restocked later on. This is especially true for any Drops, so be ready.

Below, we're keeping a running list of the best Black Friday deals at Best Buy. Check back often, because we'll be continuously updating it throughout the sale.

Heads up: Best Buy sometimes messes with products' original prices, making deals appear better or worse than they actually are, so we cross-check its listings with brand and manufacturer sites whenever possible. As such, you may see some price discrepancies between the MSRPs on its product pages and our (correct) deal breakdowns below.

Note: All newly added deals are marked with a ✨.

TV deals

Our pick: LG 48-inch A2 Series OLED 4K TV
$549.99 (save $750) + free 3-month Apple TV+ subscription

Why we like it

Budget-friendly OLED TVs are relatively rare — as are discounts that exceed the 50% mark among big-name brands like LG. This is a match of a members-only deal we first saw during Best Buy's 48-Hour Flash Sale in mid-October, which was meant to compete with Prime Big Deal Days (Amazon's October Prime Day sale).

More early Black Friday TV deals at Best Buy

LG TVs

Samsung TVs

Sony TVs

Fire TVs

Apple deals

MacBooks

iPads

AirPods

Apple Watches

More Apple deals

Laptop deals

Why we like it

Geared toward basic web browsing, email sending, and document creation, this 15.6-inch Acer Chromebook has an older Intel Celeron N4020 processor with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, a 12.5-hour battery life, and a 720p webcam. It also comes with its own fabric case. Best Buy will probably drop a sub-$100 Chromebook at some point during its Black Friday sale — we saw a $79 one last year — but for now, this is the cheapest laptop it's offered this season. (Note that it typically retails for $219.99 on the Acer website, so Best Buy's price is slightly inflated.)

More early Black Friday laptop deals at Best Buy

Traditional laptops

Gaming laptops

Chromebooks

Tablet deals

a front view of a Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with a surface pro keyboard attached to it
Credit: Microsoft
Our pick: Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with Surface Pro Keyboard
$999.99 (save $540) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription

Why we like it

Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Pro 9 is a premium detachable tablet with an impressive 15-hour battery life, a vibrant 3:2 touchscreen, and crisp 1080p cameras (including a front-facing selfie camera that supports logins via facial recognition). Its 12th-gen Intel processor makes it a little outdated, but it performed well enough in testing to secure a 4/5 rating and an Editors' Choice Award from our sister site, PCMag. The configuration with an Intel i5 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage comes with a Surface Pro Keyboard (worth $139.99) at Best Buy, where it's currently on sale for $999.99 — a 35% total savings.

More early Black Friday tablet deals at Best Buy

Monitor deals

Why we like it

Featuring a 2560 x 1440 resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate, a peppy 1ms response time, and an adjustable stand, this 27-inch gaming monitor from HP's OMEN line is a very solid budget gaming monitor that can do justice to AAA games. Best Buy's Black Friday price saves you 30%.

More early Black Friday monitor deals at Best Buy

Gaming deals

Why we like it

You'll need a few spare controllers to play Super Mario Party with pals. This package deal bundles a copy of the game with Red and Blue Joy-Con for just $100, which is $40 less than what you'd pay for them separately. It's one of Nintendo's first Black Friday offers of the season, and it's a Best Buy exclusive.

More early Black Friday gaming deals at Best Buy

PlayStation

Xbox

Nintendo Switch

Headphone and earbud deals

Why we like them

The Sony WH-1000XM5s are an impeccable pair of premium wireless, over-ear noise-canceling headphones that won our Mashable's Choice Award: "I found myself reaching for these headphones over my AirPods and Sennheiser PXC 550-IIs," writes deputy reviews editor Miller Kern. Best Buy's Black Friday price cut matched a deal on the Sony website at the time of writing.

More early Black Friday headphone and earbud deals at Best Buy

Headphones

Earbuds

Smartwatch deals

Garmin

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Fitbit

Dyson deals

Vacuum deals

Kitchen appliance deals

Air fryers

Blenders

Coffee makers

Composting machines

Espresso machines

Ice makers

Pizza ovens

Toaster ovens

Smart home deals

Home security equipment

Mesh WiFi routers and systems

Streaming devices

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Frequently Asked Questions


Shoppers trying to hatch a long-term game plan should know that while Best Buy offers a Holiday Price Match Guarantee, it will be null and void from the first day of its Black Friday sale on Nov. 17 through actual Cyber Monday on Nov. 27. If something you buy there does get cheaper elsewhere during that period, consider just returning it: Almost any items purchased in Best Buy stores and on its website from Oct. 27 through Dec. 30 will be eligible for return through Jan. 13, 2024.


Best Buy has yet to reveal its stores' hours for Black Friday 2023, but confirmed that they will be closed on Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 23). Its Black Friday deals will still be up for grabs online and on the Best Buy app that day.

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Haley Henschel
Senior Shopping Reporter

Haley Henschel is a Chicago-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable who reviews and finds deals on popular tech, from laptops to gaming consoles and VPNs. She has years of experience covering shopping holidays and can tell you what’s actually worth buying on Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day. Her work has also explored the driving forces behind digital trends within the shopping sphere, from dupes to 12-foot skeletons.

Haley received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and honed her sifting and winnowing skills at The Daily Cardinal. She previously covered politics for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, investigated exotic pet ownership for Wisconsin Watch, and blogged for some of your favorite reality stars.

In her free time, Haley enjoys playing video games, drawing, taking walks on Lake Michigan, and spending time with her parrot (Melon) and dog (Pierogi). She really, really wants to get back into horseback riding. You can follow her on X at @haleyhenschel or reach her via email at [email protected].


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