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AirPods Max 2 pre-orders now live: Best Buy offers $130 off when trading in your older Lighting set

Alongside the official kick-off to Amazon’s massive Big Spring Sale, and the $100 price drops on AirPods Max, today is also the day the brand new AirPods Max 2 go up for pre-order. The long-awaited next-generation Apple over-ears will go up for sale for the first time this morning at major retailers and directly from Apple and we are here to uncover the best ways to save. 

AirPods Max 2 pre-order deals

As of right now, there are, as expected, no straight up cash discounts on the new AirPods Max 2 for pre-order day. But as we await some potential offers at Amazon, Best Buy is landing this morning with some notable trade-in options for folks looking to upgrade from the previous-generation set. 

Before the pre-order listings went live this morning at 9 a.m. ET, Best Buy was already quoting $130 in value towards the older Lightning AirPods Max – this is in fact the only AirPods Max it was accepting for trade at that time. All things considered, most folks who just spent $549 on the updated AirPods Mac USB-C (or much less than that if you’re a 9to5Toys reader) aren’t likely to be jumping at the chance to spend $549 on the new AirPods Max 2 anyway, but we will keep an eye out for options outside of Apple. 

All of that said you will want to double check the value Apple will offer you for trade-ins – it’s just that Best Buy tends to be quite aggressive with trade values during new Apple gear launches and we suspect it will be much the same with AirPods Max 2. 

At the time of writing Best Buy is offering $130 off the New AirPods Max 2 with trade-ins on the older Lightning AirPods Max in the form of a $130 refund or a $130 Best Buy gift card. Notably, it is not accepting trades for the newer AirPods Max (USB-C):

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Justin is a senior deal Jedi over at 9to5Toys where he heads up our game/app coverage and more. He also covers all things music for 9to5Mac, including the weekly Logic Pros series exploring music production on Mac and iOS devices