Best Buy: cancellation problem
Cancel My Best Buy Plus or Total online or by phone; full refund minus used benefits within 60 days.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 20 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- membership start or renewal date
- cancellation confirmation
- card statement
Steps
Cancel on the Plans and Subscriptions page or by calling 1-888-BEST BUY.
Save the confirmation. Cancel before the renewal date to avoid the yearly charge.
To cancel a Geek Squad Protection plan, chat with an agent, call, or visit a store.
Dispute any renewal charged after you cancelled with Best Buy, then your card issuer.
Facts you can cite
- Policy
If you cancel My Best Buy Plus or Total within 60 days of purchase or renewal, you get a full refund of the yearly fee minus the value of discounts or benefits used this term; after 60 days the refund is prorated for unused days, minus benefits used.
Source: bestbuy.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Fee
My Best Buy Plus renews at $29.99 per year and Total at $199.99 per year, plus tax, or the then-current price, until cancelled.
Source: bestbuy.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
Best Buy's terms (last updated September 25, 2026) require a signed notice of dispute and 60 days of informal resolution before arbitration; claims within small claims limits must be heard in small claims court.
Source: bestbuy.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Deadline
You can reject a future change to Best Buy's arbitration agreement within 30 days of the change by a signed notice to the CT Corporation address.
Source: bestbuy.com, verified 2026-10-12
Rules in force
- Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) negative option requirements15 U.S.C. 8401-8405
A seller that charges consumers online through a negative option feature (for example an automatic renewal or a free trial that converts to paid) must clearly disclose all material terms before taking billing information, get the consumer's express informed consent before charging, and provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC enforces ROSCA.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
3 citable points
- Policy
Before obtaining the consumer's billing information, the seller must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction".
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
The seller must provide "simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges" on the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial account.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
A ROSCA violation is treated as a violation of an FTC rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the FTC enforces ROSCA with its FTC Act powers and penalties. Report violations to the FTC.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
Rules not in force (do not cite)
- FTC "Click-to-Cancel" amendments to the Negative Option Rule (2024) Vacated16 CFR part 425 (2024 amendments, published November 15, 2024)
Vacated in full by the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2025 (Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, 142 F.4th 1060). The FTC removed the 2024 text effective February 12, 2026 and restored the pre-2024 prenotification rule. A new rulemaking is only at the ANPRM stage (March 13, 2026), with no proposed text as of 2026-10-12. What remains in force: ROSCA (rules/rosca-negative-option), Section 5 of the FTC Act, and state automatic renewal laws (for example rules/ca-automatic-renewal-law, rules/ny-automatic-renewal-law).
Not in force. Do not cite it as current law.
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Supervisor
Written complaint
MailNotice of dispute and arbitration opt-out (Best Buy registered agent) Best Buy, CT Corporation System, Inc., 1010 Dale Street North, St. Paul, MN 55117-5603Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).Public complaint
RegulatorBetter Business Bureau
Watch out
- Membership and protection plan management need the customer's Best Buy sign-in.
- Online chat price match requests must be made by the purchaser.
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