Buying a new mobile phone? Best Buy will give you a $50 gift card

Buy a new cell phone from Best Buy anytime between now and the end of the year, and you'll score a $50 gift card.

(Credit: Best Buy)

Thinking of buying a new cell phone sometime in the next few weeks? How about the next few months? Before the calendar strikes 2014? If you're willing to part with a few bits of information, Best Buy will give you a $50 gift card when you buy a new phone -- even if it's not for another 11 months.

Interesting, no? I've seen retailers offer gift cards for purchases made within a small window, but never anything quite like this. All you do is give Best Buy your existing and active mobile or landline number and your e-mail address, anytime between now and 10 p.m. (PT) on Feb. 9. (Curiously, voice-over-IP numbers are not permitted.) That effectively registers you for the promotion.

Then, when you buy a new phone from Best Buy (with a two-year contract, natch) and activate it for that existing number, Best Buy will send you a gift card good for $50.

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by Rick Broida via CNET