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You can get a 55-inch TCL QLED TV for $50 cheaper than its Prime Day price

And it's likely the cheapest price you can get this size QLED for — but act quick, the deal ends tomorrow.
By Bethany Allard  on 
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TCL's most affordable TV just got even more affordable thanks to this Best Buy deal. Credit: TCL / Mashable Photo Composite

Save $170: For Oct. 23 only, Best Buy has marked down the TCL 55-inch Q5 QLED TV $50 lower than its Prime Day pricing at just $279.99. This 38% discount brings this $449.99 TV to an incredibly low price point that'll be hard to match with any other QLED TV on the market.


Very rarely do we see hot ticket holiday sale items hit impressive new low prices during the holding period that is the time between Prime Day 2 and Black Friday, but Best Buy did promise month-long holiday deals.

We're glad to see them deliver with this $279.99 deal on a TCL 55-inch Q5 QLED TV, on sale as a deal of the day. That means that this deal will only last as long as Oct. 23 — come tomorrow, this exact deal will be gone. Considering this $170 markdown beats the $120 off we saw it hit on Prime Day (and the fact that $280 for a 55-inch QLED isn't by any means common), if you've been waiting to get your hands on a budget-friendly QLED TV, this is arguably the time to buy.

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The Q5 Series of TCL TVs is a Best Buy exclusive, so you won't be finding these savings anywhere else — and trust us, it can be hard to find sub-$300 QLEDs. With a QLED TV, quantum dots help the picture come out brighter and in a wider range of colors, so it looks more accurate, and all-over better than what you'd get with a standard LED TV.

Though these Q5 TVS are TCL's most affordable line, that doesn't mean you're skimping on quality. Like it's Q6 counterpart, it comes with Dolby Vision and Motion Rate 240 motion smoothing technology, which basically means that you'll have a clearer and better picture shot for shot with a smooth experience that gamers will especially appreciate. The 55-inch Q6, by the way, is on sale at the time of writing for $449.99.

With the Q5, you'll also get three HDMI ports and built-in Google Assistant.

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Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she's covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she's now done for three years at Mashable.

She graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature. You can follow her on X @betallard and reach her by email at [email protected]. In her free time, you'll find her playing her Switch, hanging with her cat Mila, or cooking something new in her kitchen.


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