Best Buy has jumped the gun on Amazon Prime Day by launching its Member Deals Days and here are four good reasons to avoid it

Amazon Prime Day is coming soon—landing discounts in our laps come Tuesday July 16 and Wednesday 17—but of course, it's not just the Bezos Boys keen to find ways to part you from your summer holiday fund with tempting new tech deals. Oh no, the likes of Newegg, Micro Center, and B&H Photo are all going to have rival sales to keep Amazon on its toes.

And so is Best Buy… in fact, it's just started one today. And the good news is you can largely ignore it. I've spent a while going through the Member Deals Days promotion and there isn't much here for PC gamers looking for a bargain.

Almost every time I found something that looked kinda promising, with a tempting extra discount for My Best Buy Plus members, I could find something better or cheaper elsewhere. For reference, My Best Buy is the company's membership program, which you can join for free to get free shipping. But you can pay $50 a year to upgrade to a My Best Buy Plus membership, which is where you start getting exclusive discounts.

But so far I've yet to see a deal that's made me feel that a $50 outlay would be worth it for the offset discounts you might see in this week's sale. 

Admittedly, the Amazon Prime Day event is based around a similar members-only deal conceit, but as it will give out 30-day free memberships like balloons at a kid's birthday that's hardly an equivalence in real terms.

There is a $180 By Best Buy Total membership that gets you cheaper repairs, 24/7 tech support, and includes protection plans, but you'd have to be a Total @$%* to spend that much on a membership card for a retailer IMHO.

In Best Buy's defence, however, if you are already a Plus member, for your sins, then you can find some decent deals on cheap Logitech mice. But yeah, that's hardly going to get you scrabbling around desperately for your credit card in order to sign up, is it?

So, here are just a few reasons not to bother with Member Deals Days:

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