Staff Picks: The Best of the Best
When you see a Staff Pick deal, you know someone at Castle DealNews has declared it a particularly noteworthy bargain. So allow us to quickly highlight some of the... um... highlights. (Of what are already highlights. It recurs.)
Pro Deal Tip: There's many more Staff Pick deals beyond the ones we've highlighted here. Keep scrollin' to see them all.
Apple iPhone 17 Pro 256GB w/ iPad A16, Watch SE 3 & $200 GCStore: Verizon
Price: Preorder for free w/ trade-in & Unlimited plan
Expiration: September 18
We're about three phone generations away from a provider offering to pay for your kids' college and wash your car and polish your earlobes when you preorder with the right plan. But for now, you'll have to settle for only getting an entire iPad, a brand new Apple Watch SE 3, and a $200 Verizon gift card for free if you preorder that new iPhone 17 Pro you've heard so much about. Which is still kinda good, if you like your understatements.
DeWalt Power Tools at Lowe'sStore: Lowe's
Discount: Buy one, get one
Shipping: Free shipping
At long last, you too can do DeWalt... you do DeWalt of Life. And when you do one DeWalt of Life, you get a second DeWalt of Life for free. I'm not entirely sure how far we can stretch this joke, but that's never stopped us before. And you're accessory to it. We're brothers in arms now. On the internet, and what is the Information Superhighway if not basically Telegraph Road. Good lord someone stop this.
Amazon Music UnlimitedStore: Amazon
Price: Free for 4 months w/ Prime
Expiration: October 10
Imagine telling early 2000s Lars Ulrich that in Space Year 2025, people will be able to access almost the entire canon of recorded music for free for four whole months, and it would be entirely legal. He'd probably look at you over an overpriced glass of champagne at an art auction and demand proof. You'd pull out your smartphone and show him this deal, at which point he be like that: "What the H is that, some kind of internet cellphone?" And then he'd get the jump on old man Jobs, and suddenly Metallica have the patent on the iPhone, and they can easily afford to sue anyone they like into nonexistence. So stop imagining that, and just take the free trial. It's safer this way.
Belvedere Men's Calico Leather Lace-Up SneakersStore: Men's Wearhouse
Price: $29.99
Shipping: Free shipping for members
Lowest By: $100
These shoes are significantly less Belve-dear than usual, by a margin of exactly 100 dollars. Which means you could buy four pairs at this price and still have $10 to spare compared to buying just one pair at their regular price. Calico? More like Cali-low. Price. Do you see?
Vinyl Record Deals at Barnes & NobleStore: Barnes & Noble
Price: $50 for 3
Shipping: Free shipping w/ $50
Over 150 records are on sale for just $20, and if you buy three of them, the price drops to $50 — a $10 savings. At that point, the question isn't whether you buy the Barnes & Noble exclusive printing of Aqua's Aquarium, but instead, will you stop at just three? Sure, you could go with Aquarium, and then go with Joni Mitchell's Hejira and Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, or Hans Zimmer's Driving Miss Daisy soundtrack and Simon and Garfunkel's soundtrack to The Graduate. But if one Barbie Girl is catchy, three are a full-blown epidemic that's hard to resist.
LEGO Advent Calendar Deals at AmazonStore: Amazon
Discount: Up to 29% off
Shipping: Free shipping w/ Prime
Either these advent calendars are extremely early to market, or they come with, like, 100 days to open. They could have special boxes for Halloween and Thanksgiving. It'd be like The Oregon Trail of advent calendars — entire wagons of participants taken out by dysentery and starvation by the time we reach Christmas. A daringly bleak take on the holiday season. But I think they're just early to market. But you do have time, and the potential savings, to buy three calendars, and start one on October 7, one on November 3, and one on December 1, and celebrate all three holidays equally. But this would be the work of a lunatic. But then, so would buying a $1,000 LEGO Death Star, and people are presumably already excited to do that.
