Best Buy Confirms It Will Bow ‘Try Before You Buy’ Rental Service This Month
Reports that Best Buy will team with Lumoid to offer a “try before you buy” rental service are “generally accurate,” except for the product categories the service will cover, spokeswoman Paula Baldwin emailed us Monday. Contrary to the reports, “drones…
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will not be available for rental -- but health & fitness, digital imaging and smart home devices will be,” Baldwin said. The service will launch later this month at BestBuy.com, Baldwin said. “It is a not an in-store offering,” she said: “When customers visit bestbuy.com, they’ll be able to use Lumoid to try out products” in the selected categories “for a period of time (usually about a week),” she said.