Capital One Shopping has boosted rewards for Best Buy purchases today-only (11/24/25). I’m seeing as high as 30% back at Best Buy via the public shopping portal. Those with Capital One credit cards are also seeing boosted rates (currently 10x miles in my household, but there may be higher rates). I haven’t yet received an email offer from Capital One Shopping this morning; it is possible that an even higher offer will go out with today’s email advertising boosted rates. If you’re buying at Best Buy, it is worth keeping your eye out for these offers — and an eye on the exclusions.
The Deal
- Capital One Shopping is offering increased rewards for Best Buy purchases 11/24 only (rates vary, but we’re seeing as high as 30% back)
Key Terms
- Available 11/24-only
- Rates are targeted and vary
Quick Thoughts
At the top of the Capital One Shopping desktop site and app, I saw a big callout box advertising 15% back at Best Buy. However, as I scrolled the offers on the home page and in the app, I found the offer for 30% back. The screen shot below shows the 30% rate along with the exclusions.
Interestingly, I do not see any exclusion on Apple devices, though I do see that special-order laptops are excluded (as are most gaming laptops). Still, despite what looks like a long list of exclusions at first glance, it seems like there are a LOT of product lines that are not excluded.
This could make for a particularly compelling stack with the Citi Strata Elite splurge credit, whereby you can get up to $200 back as you could buy $200 worth of stuff (potentially at holiday sale pricing) and get $60 back from Capital One Shopping. Keep in mind the limitations of Capital One Shopping rewards (See our Capital One Shopping Complete Guide for more details).
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Thanks for your excellent posts on Capital One Shopping. I would never have figured it out on my own. I was recently in the market for some fairly expensive climbing gear (trad rack, for those who know what that is) and I was able to snag some awesome deals, as much as 40% off for some purchases. It saved me a lot of money overall.
How do you combined the Shopping offer with the 10X credit card offer? Don’t you have to use the 10X credit card link, which would prevent the shopping deal from being activated/tracket?
You don’t combine them. It’s an alternative option.
30% back is on Airpods.
No, that’s not how Capital One Shopping works. It isn’t limited to the pictured product; it works on almost anything on the target site (apart from the exclusions mentioned). However, C1 Shopping is also known for sometimes showing a picture of an excluded product, so it wouldn’t have surprised me to find Apple in the list of exclusions (they used to frequently send targeted Office Depot emails that showed a picture of Visa Gift Cards even though those purchases aren’t processed by Office Depot). But this would work on most items sold by Best Buy.
When I select 30% cashback in the app, it opens a Best Buy page with only 8 products, all of them Airpods. Isn’t that an indication that 30% will work only on those?
Also, will it fall back to 15% if they decide the purchase was not eligible for 30%? I don’t want to risk the 15% cashback as that’s already pretty great.
No, it isn’t an indication of that at all. We’ve been writing about Capital One shopping here for years and have extensive experience with it. The product shown or the landing page you end up on does matter at all for most merchants. See that complete guide that I linked to within the post for more detail. I use Capital One shopping all the time and I don’t think I’ve ever bought the specific product or products mentioned in the offer, but in my household we’ve earned five figures worth of rewards through the portal. They’re just showing you a product that they think you might be interested in buying based on your browsing history.
One thing I have learned from Nick is to trust what the shopping extension tells you. It will list what is eligible. My 30% says iPads, but when I click through the extension shows it is good on a lot more than that. There is a long list of ineligible items, but it definitely applies to a lot more than Airpods (or iPads).
It’s worth installing the extension (if you prefer, in a separate browser or separate browser profile just used for purchases) as Nick describes in his guide. Then you can always click on the extension after following your link, and confirm that the cashback is active and see the list of exclusions. I always double-check on the final checkout page too.
I see 30% on Macbooks and going through the link it opens the page with all Macbooks. Can I still use the link and go buy other products other than excluded to get 30% back? (I have same exceptions as that of what you mentioned)
Yes.