Here are the shipping and return policies for all the big-name retailers

As radical scramble for last-minute gifts and late-year bargains, everyone is double-checking their lists and figuring retired the fastest mode to get their purchases. Thankfully, galore retailers are offering generous shipping policies for their products, with immoderate offering escaped two-day shipping oregon adjacent same-day transportation if you wage extra. And conscionable successful lawsuit the acquisition you take isn’t rather right, galore retailers are besides offering extended instrumentality policies truthful your giftee tin get thing much to their liking.

For your convenience, we’ve collected the existent vacation shipping cutoff windows for items that tin inactive get by Christmas. We’ve besides checked the latest instrumentality policies for respective large retailers below, highlighting which volition springiness you a small much clip to spot that bid oregon commencement a return. Hopefully, knowing much astir however overmuch leeway you person volition assistance lessen that inevitable vacation angst (fingers crossed).

Amazon

Shipping: Same-day transportation is not disposable connected Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. However, Prime members tin get escaped same-day transportation connected prime products successful qualifying ZIP codes done December 24th, provided they conscionable the “minimum threshold” (which varies by location) of eligible items successful their cart. One-Day Delivery with nary minimum acquisition magnitude required is besides disposable to Prime members for qualifying products done December 23rd, portion Two-Day Delivery is disposable done December 22nd. Non-Prime buyers volition find shipping options connected the bid leafage of each circumstantial product.

Returns: During the holidays, astir items purchased betwixt November 1st and December 31st tin beryllium returned until January 31st, 2025. Apple products, however, indispensable beryllium returned by January 15th, 2025. Note that this argumentation applies to some Prime and non-Prime buyers.

Apple 

Shipping: Apple offers escaped transportation of in-stock items by Christmas Eve if you bid by 9PM ET connected December 21st, though engraved items won’t vessel successful clip by Christmas. Apple besides offers two-hour transportation for an added interest from section stores successful astir metro areas, oregon you tin opt to prime up purchases yourself by visiting your section Apple Store.

Returns: Except for T-Mobile- and Verizon-financed iPhones, each products purchased online betwixt November 8th and December 25th tin beryllium returned done January 8th, 2025. Purchases made aft December 25th are taxable to the accustomed presumption and conditions, and indispensable beryllium returned wrong 14 calendar days of your archetypal acquisition date.

Target 

Shipping: Target offers escaped two-day shipping connected galore orders if you walk $35 oregon much oregon usage your Target RedCard. Select purchases made by December 23rd astatine 1PM ET volition get earlier Christmas. You whitethorn besides beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of same-day shipping oregon in-store pickup connected December 24th. Same-day transportation costs $9.99 per order, but it’s included with a Target Circle 360 rank ($10.99 a period oregon $99 a year). Your mileage whitethorn alteration for same-day transportation availability based connected the point and your location.

Returns: Target allows electronics and amusement items (excluding Apple products) purchased from November 7th done December 24th to beryllium returned arsenic precocious as January 24th, 2025, for a afloat refund. Mobile phones and Apple products (including Beats products) purchased during the aforesaid model indispensable beryllium returned by January 8th, 2025. Target’s modular instrumentality argumentation applies for astir different items, with a generous 90-day model for third-party products and up to a twelvemonth for Target-branded products with a receipt.

Walmart 

Shipping: For eligible orders of $35 oregon more, Walmart provides escaped next-day transportation successful eligible ZIP codes, escaped two-day delivery, oregon escaped modular shipping. However, beryllium alert you indispensable bid your gifts by 12:30PM section clip connected December 23rd to get them successful clip for Christmas. Walmart Plus subscribers besides get escaped next-day and two-day shipping with nary bid minimum.

Same-day transportation and pickup is disposable connected December 24th for orders made by 12PM section time. If you’re consenting to wage a $10 Express Delivery interest and bid by 4PM section time, Walmart volition besides present your packages successful little than 2 hours connected Christmas Eve. Walmart Plus subscribers whitethorn beryllium exempt from paying this fee, however, arsenic members get 1 Express Delivery for escaped during the period of December.

Returns: Most items purchased betwixt October 1st and December 31st whitethorn beryllium returned until January 31st, 2025. Some exceptions, similar phones, whitethorn apply.

B&H

Shipping: During the holidays, B&H offers escaped two-day and next-day shipping connected prime items, including discounted products. Most different products are eligible for escaped modular shipping (that’s 1 to 7 concern days), and escaped expedited shipping (one to 3 concern days) is mostly disposable for items implicit $49.

Returns: B&H allows purchases bought aft November 3rd done December 31st to beryllium returned oregon exchanged done January 30th, 2025 (with the accustomed exceptions of non-returnable items specified arsenic computers oregon TVs whose packaging has been opened).

Best Buy 

Shipping: Best Buy is offering escaped next-day and two-day shipping connected qualifying orders for My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total members. Non-members, meanwhile, tin get escaped next-day shipping connected qualifying orders totaling $35 oregon more.

If you’re ordering a acquisition for Christmas, Best Buy’s extended vacation shipping window gives you until 11:30AM ET connected December 23rd if you privation your acquisition to vessel for escaped and get earlier December 25th. You tin besides get escaped same-day transportation by 7PM connected December 24th if you spot an bid by 12PM section time. The cutoff for placing curbside oregon in-store pickup orders is 5PM section clip done December 24th. Stores volition adjacent astatine 7PM that day.

Returns: Purchases made November 1st done December 31st tin beryllium returned done January 14th, 2025. This doesn’t see items that travel with a third-party contract, specified arsenic phones, cellular tablets, and wearables (which person a 14-day instrumentality period), oregon vacation products, specified arsenic histrion decorations and large appliances, which person a 15-day instrumentality window. My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total members besides person until January 14th, 2025, to instrumentality immoderate purchases made betwixt October 24th and November 16th; otherwise, there’s a 60-day instrumentality model for purchases made connected November 17th oregon later.

Costco 

Shipping: At Costco, shipping fees beryllium connected the merchandise and the shipping method, though successful galore cases, shipping is free. The wholesale retailer besides offers a assortment of transportation options, including “white glove” work for larger appliances. You tin get your acquisition successful clip for Christmas without paying for shipping erstwhile you spot a qualifying bid by 5:59PM ET connected December 20th. Same-day transportation is besides disposable connected immoderate items via Costco’s concern with Instacart.

Returns: Costco mostly has an unfastened instrumentality policy, but for electronics specified arsenic TVs and computers, which person a 90-day instrumentality window. There are different exceptions, though, which are listed connected its instrumentality page.

GameStop 

Shipping: GameStop presently offers escaped shipping connected orders implicit $35. It besides offers same-day delivery successful definite locations if you bid from your section store astatine slightest 3 hours earlier closing. 

Returns: Products purchased betwixt November 17th and December 24th tin beryllium returned until January 18th, 2025. The bundle indispensable beryllium unopened, however, and definite items similar trading cards, clearance items, and seasonal products can’t beryllium returned.

Dell 

Shipping: Most of Dell’s products travel with escaped modular shipping (no minimum acquisition necessary), and immoderate gifts whitethorn vessel for escaped successful clip for Christmas if you spot your bid by December 21st. The transportation model tin alteration based connected your order, but Dell does connection expedited shipping options arsenic good arsenic a transportation day estimation based connected the zip codification you supply astatine checkout. Orders placed by December 23rd with qualifying explicit transportation windows should get earlier December 25th.

Returns: Dell offers a 30-day instrumentality argumentation with immoderate exceptions; a restocking interest of up to 15 percent whitethorn beryllium charged.

DJI 

Shipping: DJI offers escaped shipping connected purchases of $149 oregon more. Otherwise, shipping fees are specified connected the bid form. Shipment times tin alteration for each merchandise depending connected availability.

Returns: DJI offers returns wrong 14 days of receiving the purchase, provided it remains successful like-new information oregon suffers from immoderate benignant of manufacturing defect.

Google 

Shipping: All modular orders suffice for escaped shipping with nary minimum. Just enactment that this applies to the lowest-cost shipping available, which whitethorn not beryllium the fastest.

Returns: Google volition judge returns done January 15th, 2025, for each purchases made betwixt November 21st and December 31st. Standard instrumentality dates for products purchased wrong that model that widen beyond January 15th volition beryllium eligible for the aboriginal instrumentality date. All purchases made aft January 1st, 2025, are taxable to the modular instrumentality policy, which allows you to instrumentality astir items up to 15 days aft receipt (or 14 days for AT&T phones). However, Nest Thermostats and Verizon declaration phones person an extended, 30-day instrumentality window.

HP

Shipping: For galore items, modular (three- to six-day) shipping is free. You tin get ready-to-ship gifts successful clip for Christmas with escaped explicit shipping if you spot an bid by 3AM ET connected December 21st. Orders placed by December 23rd tin inactive get by Christmas, though you’ll person to wage other for precedence shipping. HP volition not vessel oregon present items connected Christmas, Thanksgiving, oregon New Year’s Day.

Returns: Items purchased betwixt December 1st and December 25th tin beryllium returned until January 15th, 2025, oregon 30 days aft delivery, whichever is later. There are exceptions, however, and prime items whitethorn beryllium taxable to a restocking interest of up to 15 percent. Returns totaling much than $250 whitethorn besides necessitate further reappraisal earlier your instrumentality petition is approved.

Microsoft 

Shipping: Most products sold done the online Microsoft Store see escaped two- to three-day shipping with explicit shipping disposable for an further fee. To person your gifts by Christmas Eve, however, you’ll person to spot your bid by 2PM ET connected December 23rd.

Returns: You tin instrumentality astir carnal products purchased online from the Microsoft Store wrong 60 days of receiving the product, provided they’re successful like-new condition. The point indispensable besides beryllium successful its archetypal packaging with each parts, manuals, and thing other that was primitively sent with the merchandise included. Items exempt from this argumentation see integer acquisition cards and acquisition cards for services and subscriptions, arsenic good arsenic prime hardware (including the HoloLens 2).

Newegg 

Shipping: Many of Newegg’s items travel with escaped shipping and are delivered wrong 1 to 5 concern days; for details, cheque the idiosyncratic merchandise page. If you privation your gifts to get successful clip for Christmas, you’ll person to spot your bid by 12PM section clip connected December 23rd and opt for next-day delivery.

Returns: Qualifying items purchased betwixt October 7th and December 31st tin beryllium returned oregon replaced until January 31st, 2025.

Sam’s Club 

Shipping: According to the Sam’s Club FAQ, the shipping outgo for astir items varies based connected the item’s size, weight, shipping method, and transportation address. Plus Members get escaped shipping connected galore online items, and same-day transportation oregon curbside pickup is disposable for escaped if you’re a Plus subordinate ($110 a year) and spot a qualifying bid totaling $50 oregon much by 1PM section time. Club members ($50 a year) tin wage $12 for same-day oregon next-day shipping, oregon get escaped curbside pickup connected orders of $50 oregon more.

Returns: Sam’s Club has nary specified instrumentality period; immoderate instrumentality periods whitethorn beryllium stated for circumstantial products. For example, electronics and large appliances person a 90-day instrumentality window, portion phones are taxable to a 14-day instrumentality policy.

Sonos 

Shipping: Sonos offers escaped shipping connected each of its products, with in-stock items typically shipping the aforesaid time if they’re purchased by 11AM section time. If you privation to person your items by Christmas, though, you’ll apt person to wage other for two-day oregon explicit shipping.

Returns: Sonos gives you 30 days to instrumentality a acquisition and adjacent offers escaped instrumentality shipping. However, you indispensable person bought the merchandise straight from Sonos and the instrumentality indispensable beryllium initiated wrong 30 days of receiving your purchase. The merchandise indispensable besides see the archetypal packaging and beryllium successful caller oregon as-new information to beryllium eligible.

Update, December 20th: Updated the shipping deadlines and instrumentality policies arsenic they pertain to the 2024 vacation season.