--- title: Best Buy Offers Free Shipping on All Online Orders for the Entire Holiday Season description: Best Buy normally has a $35 minimum-purchase threshold for free shipping, but online shoppers get free shipping on all orders during the holidays. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-10-23T14:20:10.000Z' modified: '2015-10-23T14:20:10.000Z' section: Shopping tags: - Best Buy - deals - holiday shopping - online shopping - Shopping word_count: 381 canonical: https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** Money may earn a commission when you click on the products and services below. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine where and how they appear. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/) about how we make money. ![Best Buy store in San Francisco on May 15, 2015](https://img.money.com/2015/10/151023_em_bestbuy.jpg) Normally, [Best Buy](http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Global/Free-Shipping/pcmcat276800050002.c?id=pcmcat276800050002) requires online shoppers to spend at least $35 to get free shipping. But starting this Sunday and stretching all the way through January 2, the $35 minimum-purchase threshold is being waived, and all orders placed at bestbuy.com qualify for free shipping. Free shipping is increasingly viewed as a necessity to get many shoppers to bite on online shopping deals. In a recent survey by [Pitney Bowes](http://news.pb.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5644), 88% of consumers said they'd prefer free standard shipping (arriving in 5 to 7 days) rather than paying a fee for speedier delivery (1 to 2 days). Any shipping fee can be a hurdle to get shoppers to buy, so retailers drop delivery charges from time to time when they want to ramp up orders. A year ago, for instance, [Target](https://money.com/target-closing-stores/?iid=sr-link4) rolled out essentially the same deal as Best Buy, offering free shipping on all orders for most of the holiday season. Yet in some ways, it's more generous for a retailer like Target to waive minimum-purchase requirements than it is for Best Buy. Why? Think about what the average purchase at Best Buy: Odds are, it's a piece of tech that costs well over $35—and therefore would qualify for free shipping even when a minimum-purchase threshold exists. Target, on the other hand, is an all-purpose retailer overflowing with items that cost under $20, or even less than $10. So the likelihood of orders costing under $35 or $25 (the current [minimum-purchase threshold](https://money.com/target-free-shipping-amazon/?iid=sr-link1) for free delivery at Target) is far greater than Best Buy. (It's worth noting that [Target Red Card holders](http://www.target.com/redcard/benefits-target-rewards) get free shipping on all orders year-round.) So perhaps Best Buy's free-shipping-for-all deal isn't quite as impressive as it seems at first glance. Still, the promotion could have a big impact on the kinds of deals and promotions shoppers see during the holidays. “There’s always a herd mentality surrounding shipping,” Moody's analyst Charles O'Shea told the (Minneapolis) [*StarTribune*](http://www.startribune.com/best-buy-offers-free-shipping-on-all-purchases-through-holidays/335841941/). “So you’ll see other people following suit.” In other words, because Best Buy is waiving minimum-purchase requirements for free shipping during the holiday season, others are likely to do the same. So look for more free shipping deals coming your way. UPDATE: It looks like [Target will be offering free shipping](http://bestblackfriday.com/blog/target-to-offer-free-shipping-with-no-minimum-2015/) with no minimum purchase as well this year, starting November 1. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Shopping", "item": "https://money.com/shopping/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Deals", "item": "https://money.com/deals/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Best Buy Offers Free Shipping on All Online Orders for the Entire Holiday Season" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/", "name": "Best Buy Offers Free Shipping on All Online Orders for the Entire Holiday Season", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-10-23T14:20:10.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2015-10-23T14:20:10.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Best Buy Offers Free Shipping on All Online Orders for the Entire Holiday Season", "articleSection": "Shopping", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/10/151023_em_bestbuy.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1382, "caption": "151023_EM_BestBuy" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-10-23T14:20:10.000Z", "description": "Best Buy normally has a $35 minimum-purchase threshold for free shipping, but online shoppers get free shipping on all orders during the holidays.", "abstract": "Best Buy normally has a $35 minimum-purchase threshold for free shipping, but online shoppers get free shipping on all orders during the holidays.", "@id": "https://money.com/best-buy-free-shipping/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2015-10-23T14:20:10.000Z", "wordCount": 381, "keywords": [ "Best Buy", "deals", "holiday shopping", "online shopping", "Shopping" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Shopping", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Deal-of-the-day", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal-of-the-day" ] } ] } ] } ```