Tuesday: necklace-style bluetooth earphone offers

A couple of budget necklace-style bluetooth earphone offers is the theme among the daily deals for Tuesday May 18 in 2021 as follows:

+ at the Meh deal du jour you can get a 2-pack of iFrogz Sound Hub XD2 dual-driver necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $10 total plus shipping (unless you are a paying Meh-member in which case shipping is free)…

+ almost every day there’s some kind of a headphone offer at the NewEgg dailies but most of the times it is consumer tier some kind of a bluetooth, such as today, where you can get the Anker Soundcore Spirit 2 necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $17 after using the limited time promo code shown over there

+ what I call “necklace-style” (as opposed to neckband) are bluetooth earphones whose cable is an open loop (that ends at the two earpieces) and you hear them hanging on your neck like a necklace [you can of course also wear them reverse-baseball-cap style, with the “necklace” being on your back instead of your chest]

On a contemporaneous note, Tuesday 5/18/21 is Google I/0 2021 day where there might be some audio related Google announcements. You can watch the livestream/repeat YouTube-embedded below…

Speaking of announcements, this week has developed a bit of a free “HD music” subscription upgrade with both Apple and Amazon offering “HD Music” at the same price as their standard ($10/month) music subscription. It will be interesting to see if Google “price matches” this with a Google I/O announcement. Google Play Music is of course dead, and out of its ashes came YouTube Music/Premium/whatever-they-call-it-these-days.

Aug 30 – Sept 5: 20% off various brands at Staples stores

Staples stores have only a small part of a headphone company’s line-up, and obviously they tend to focus on the consumer end of the market. With that in mind, according to their weekly circular ad, for the week of August 30 until the end of day on Saturday September 5 (in 2015), they will be having a 20% off sale on headphones from Sony, Audio Technica earbuds, Yurbuds, Pilot, select Skullcandies, and iFrogz. The sale prices will be factored in, no coupon needed.

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iFrogz plugz mobile for $5 w/free shipping

If you like free shipping and are looking for a basic earbud as a car or bag throwaround or emergency backup, the iFrogz plugz mobile earbuds in the white or blue color schemes are on sale for $5 with free shipping at Zagg.com. They average 3.5 out of 5 based on 25 customer reviews over there. PS: the green and pink are out of stock.