AirPods Pro 3 Falls to $199 Before Black Friday

Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are $199 at Walmart and Target in the early Black Friday sales, $50 under the $249 list price. A price log that has checked the same Walmart listing since November 3 found the $199 figure at all six of its checks from November 4 through November 13. It isn't a one-day drop.

The rest of the Apple list has moved the same way. The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air with 16 gigabytes of memory and 512 gigabytes of storage is $1,099, down from $1,299, and 1-terabyte MacBook Air models are up to $250 off. The white Magic Mouse is $60 against a $79 list price, and a single AirTag 2 is $23 against $29.

Not every store is charging the same price for the same product. Best Buy listed the AirPods Pro 3 at $249.99 in the same price checks where Walmart charged $199 and Target charged $199.99. The store matters as much as the sale this year.

Price protection matters too. Best Buy and Target refund their own later price drops, and Walmart.com doesn't, according to the price log. A shopper who buys the AirPods at Target for $199.99 pays 99 cents more than Walmart's price and keeps the refund if the price falls again before Black Friday.

Black Friday falls on Friday, November 27, 2026, and Amazon's sale starts November 19. The honest call on the AirPods is simple. The price is at the level these sales usually reach, it's held for ten days, and buying at a store that refunds its own drops removes the risk of waiting.

The same pattern runs down the list. The M6 Mac mini with 16 gigabytes of memory and 256 gigabytes of storage is $780 against an $899 regular price, and the AirPods Max 2 is $449 against $549. Those are the kinds of cuts that usually wait for the week of Black Friday itself, and they're already live on November 14.