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Do you like shopping at Best Buy or BestBuy.com? Let us show you our best way to shop at both places.

You Need To Do The Following Only Once

1. Sign up for a Best Buy Rewardzone membership - it’s free. Click on the Join now link in the bottom left hand corner to sign-up.

2. Follow the instructions to set up an account. From now on, to see how many rewards points you have, visit My Reward Zone here and log in.

Read A little more below for more information on the Rewardzone. Bookmark this page to save money every time you shop at Best Buy.

What to do

1. Visit Jellyfish.com. Log-in.

If you need an account, you can register for one for free. We suggest using a registration email. To learn more about cash back sites, read our (older) article Cash Back Sites Explained.

1. At Jellyfish.com:

• Click on Stores at the top of the page.
• Click on the letter B .
• Scroll down and click on the BestBuy link. You go to the BestBuy.com homepage.

Because you clicked through Jellyfish.com, you will receive 2.2% cash back on your purchases at BestBuy.com.

1. Shop normally. For any items you want to purchase, check for the following:

• Rebates. If your item has a rebate, click the Rebates tab on that product’s page, and then click on the rebate link. If it is a mail-in rebate, a form pops up. Print the form - you must fill it out and mail it in. If it is a rebate you can submit online, follow the instructions.

• Free shipping. If BestBuy.com doesn’t offer free shipping on your item, you might be able to pick it up at your local Best Buy store.

1. In your checkout process, when you get to the Payment Information step, return here to click on the following links to look for coupon codes applicable to your purchase:

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Copy any relevant coupon codes. To learn more about such codes, read our article Coupon Codes Explained.

1. Make your purchase. You don’t need an account at BestBuy.com to make your purchase. Enter your billing address and email address. We suggest using a registration email.

• On the Payment page, enter any relevant coupon codes in the Redeem Promotional Codes field, and click the Apply button.

• On the Review and Submit page, enter your 10-digit Rewardzone membership number to get rewards points for your purchase.

• If you chose the Store pickup option, wait until you get TWO emails from Best Buy. The first is a confirmation email of your order - that is an email receipt of your purchase. The other email is a pickup notification email - that email tells you that your order is ready for pickup at the Best Buy store you designated. Make sure you have a copy of the pickup notification email, your driver’s license and the credit card you used to make the purchase, when go to the appropriate store to pick up your item.

1. As soon as you complete your purchase, visit PriceProtectr.com.

For each item you purchased at BestBuy.com, submit the direct link for BestBuy.com along with your email address to PriceProtectr. The direct link is the url in the address bar for that item when you are viewing it at BestBuy.com. We suggest giving PriceProtectr.com your personal email. The service is free.

1. Finally, make sure you send/submit any rebates that may exist for the items you purchased. If you forgot to print your rebate form, visit the Best Buy rebate center here to find it. Follow the instructions on the rebate form and then send it in. Keep a copy of your rebate form for your records.

A little more

It is almost always cheaper to buy your Best Buy products online.

By using the strategy above, you save yourself money and time. By clicking through Jellyfish, you always get 2.2% cash back into your Jellyfish.com account every time you make a purchase at BestBuy.com. Other advantages of this strategy include:

• Getting reward points towards future purchases.
• Using coupon codes online.
• Claiming any available rebates.
• Avoiding any shipping charges by opting to pick up your items at your local Best Buy store.

When you choose to pick up your items in a store, you save time because you don’t have to wait in line. You can just stroll to the ‘Order Pick-up Area’ at your local Best Buy store, and then stroll out. It’s that simple.

The Best Buy Rewardszone program is a way for you to earn points towards Best Buy gift certificates for all purchases you make at Best Buy and BestBuy.com. You receive one Rewardzone for every eligible dollar you spend. Then you receive a $5 BestBuy gift certificate for every 250 points you earn.

If you are planning to buy a big ticket item at Best Buy (like a plasma TV), signing up for the free Rewardzone program is a great way to get an extra benefit for the money you spend.

Finally, using PriceProtectr.com is a great way to potentially save money after your purchase. It is not common knowledge, but BestBuy.com has a price drop policy. It works like this: if the price of an item you bought drops within a certain number of days since your purchase (14 to 30 days, depending on what you buy), BestBuy.com will credit you the difference. But there are two catches:

• You have to monitor the price to find out when the drop happens.
• You have to ask BestBuy.com for the price refund.

PriceProtectr.com makes these two steps easy for you. For each item you purchase at BestBuy.com, submit the product’s url to PriceProtectr.com right after you purchase the item. We suggest using your personal email address at PriceProtectr.com, only because you’ll learn of price drops right away. If you check your registration email everyday too, then use that one.

If the price drops at BestBuy.com on any of the items you’ve recorded, PriceProtectr.com will send you an email saying the price has dropped, and should give you directions as to how you can ask BestBuy.com to refund the difference. You can learn more here.

Think of using PriceProtectr.com as an easy way to hedge your bets against price drops at BestBuy.com. In other words, using our strategy could get you savings before and after you make your purchase.

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