What to expect from AirPods deals on Labor Day 2024

With new AirPods likely to arrive soon, we might see record-low prices again

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Labor Day isn’t just about celebrating the US labor movement. It’s also a pretty great time to get some new tech and appliances – you can keep an eye on ourLabor Day saleshub for any early offers, and the best deals when the time comes.

This year, the stuff you’ll want to buy might well include some of thebest AirPodsmodels. With new models imminent, we think a lot of retailers are going to be keen to clear out their current stock beforeAppleannounces theAirPods 4,AirPods Max 2andAirPods Pro 3, at least some of which we’re expecting to see in September.

If you don’t desperately want the very latest AirPods, that means this is a very good time to buy. Discounts on newly launched Apple products are incredibly rare, and if they happen at all, the discounts are typically tiny. But discounts on outgoing models can be significan, and we’re talking about products that rank among thebest earbudsandbest headphones, so they’ll be bargains even if newer models launch.

So what kind of deals should you expect? We don’t have the inside scoop, but we can make some informed predictions.

What Labor Day AirPods deals can we expect in 2024?

Some people predict the future with tarot cards or tea leaves. We prefer Prime Day.Amazon’s summer sales event saw record-low prices for AirPods, AirPods Pro and AirPods Max this year, and we suspect that we’ll see essentially the same prices  Labor Day.

These are the discounts we saw back in July:

We’re always tracking thebest AirPods deals, and the prices above wereallrecord-lows at the time – either the new cheapest they’ve ever been (as was the case forAirPods Pro 2andAirPods 3), or the joint-cheapest (as it was forAirPods Max).

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Withsupposedly two models of new AirPods due to arrive in Septemberalongside theiPhone 16, we strongly suspect we’ll see these same price again – though probably not any cheaper.

Labor Day and the days immediately before and after it could be among the best days to buy an AirPods bargain this year.

Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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