Best Buy Confirms It Will Bow ‘Try Before You Buy’ Rental Service This Month

Reports that Best Buy will team with Lumoid to offer a “try before you buy” rental service are “generally accurate,” except for the product categories the service will cover, spokeswoman Paula Baldwin emailed us Monday. Contrary to the reports, “drones will not be available for rental -- but health & fitness, digital imaging and smart home devices will be,” Baldwin said. The service will launch later this month at BestBuy.com, Baldwin said. “It is a not an in-store offering,” she said: “When customers visit bestbuy.com, they’ll be able to use Lumoid to try out products” in the selected categories “for a period of time (usually about a week),” she said.