Best Buy recycles most electronics at no charge: phones, laptops, tablets, printers, cables, ink and batteries. TVs and monitors are $29.99 each where the fee applies, and some states waive it. The desk takes up to 3 items per household per day, with TVs and monitors capped at 2 per day. Screens up to and including 50 inches are accepted, and anything larger is refused. Curbside pickup for a TV that size is $129, and if you book by 2 PM it goes today where same-day is running. Best Buy policy verified August 2026; policies are set per store and change, so call ahead.
Who should close this tab and just drive there
A laptop, a phone, a tablet, a printer, a game console, a shoebox of cables and chargers, old ink cartridges, dead batteries. Best Buy takes all of it at no charge at most stores. No receipt, no appointment, no proof you bought it there. Walk it to the customer service desk on your next errand and you are done. Staples takes computers and printers at no charge at most of its stores too.
Monitors are the interesting one. They are $29.99 each, and the desk counts them against the same 2 per day cap it applies to TVs. Two of them is $59.98 in a single visit. That is cheaper than we are, and it is one stop. If you can carry them, carry them.
For anything on that list, paying us $79 would be a waste of your money.
Where the $29.99 stops being the number that matters
The $29.99 is the cheap part. The expensive part is loading the car, driving over, and getting a no at the desk.
Four things trigger the no.
- •A flat-panel TV over 50 inches.
- •A tube TV over the smaller cap stores apply to CRTs.
- •Anything past 3 items in one household day, or past 2 if they are TVs or monitors.
- •Any large appliance, because a fridge, washer or dryer cannot be dropped at a store at all.
Then there is the part the policy page does not cover. A 65-inch panel does not fit in a sedan, and it is a two-person lift with nowhere safe to grip. A tube TV runs 80 to 150 pounds. If it is in a basement, this is not a $29.99 errand. It is a Saturday, a borrowed truck, and someone who owes you a favor.
Best Buy's own answer for a TV it will not take is the standalone haul-away. That one runs $199.99 for up to two large items, verified August 2026, and stores change these prices without notice.
Your TV, gone from the curb. A TV 42 inches and up is $129, plus $39 for each extra one. Under 42 inches is $79, plus $19 each. A monitor, printer or desktop is $79, plus $19 each. A tube TV is $249. That is the whole price: nothing gets added at the curb, and it cannot change after you book. Book by 2 PM and a local hauler comes today where same-day is running, seven days a week. Almost half of pickups are done by noon. You get a text with the ETA before they arrive, and photos once it is gone. Nobody needs to come inside, and you do not need to be home. 5.0 on Google, 150+ reviews. 4.9 on Trustpilot, 125+ reviews.
See my price for a 65-inch TVWhy trust a company you have not heard of
You have heard of Best Buy. You have not heard of us. That is a fair thing to weigh, and it is the first thing people say when they call the office. So here is a review we did not write.
"I was concerned this wasn't a legit company, but they absolutely are… I was quoted $1500 by another company." Melissa Mader, Google
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The one Best Buy option that beats everything here
There is one exception, and it beats everything else on this page. If you are buying a replacement TV or appliance from Best Buy with delivery, haul-away of the old one runs about $49.99 where the store offers it. The crew is already standing in your doorway. Take it.
That price only exists attached to a delivery. With no purchase, the standalone haul-away is $199.99 and covers up to two large items.
So the split is simple. Buying new from Best Buy, use the $49.99 add-on. Buying nothing, $199.99 to remove one old TV is the most expensive line on this page. Curbside pickup for the same TV is $129, and you are not sitting home for a delivery window.
A fridge, washer or dryer is a different problem
Best Buy does not take large appliances at the drop-off desk. The 3 item rule never even comes up, because a washer was never getting through the door.
Before you pay anyone, try the two routes that are actually free. Scrap metal collectors will take a dead appliance off a curb for the steel, and at recent scrap prices that is still worth their trip. In a lot of neighborhoods they are the fastest option there is. Several utilities also run a fridge retirement program that hauls off an old working second refrigerator and pays you a rebate, where the program still runs.
Both have a catch. The utility programs want a working unit of a certain size and book out in weeks. The scrapper comes when the scrapper comes, and a refrigerator is the one thing they most often leave. If it has sat at the curb a week, that is your answer. Curbside pickup for a refrigerator is $109, and $59 for a second appliance on the same trip.
You book first, then you move it
This is the thing people get backwards most often. You do not need the item outside before you book. Book it, then put it out any time before the hauler gets there.
Here is the shape of the day. Haulers pick up their routes between 8 and 10 in the morning. Almost half of pickups are done by noon and about three quarters by 2 PM. You get a text with the ETA before the truck is on your street, and photos once it is gone.
Nobody comes inside and you do not need to be home. You did not want a TV parked in front of the building all day, and it will not be.