Despite having Verizon & Apple's pages ready on the "checkout" button, I was able to use BestBuy to purchase an iPhone 16 Pro Max 1TB.

BestBuy continues to earn all of my Apple business (except Macs since they don't carry CTO models) because of the free AppleCare. I give BestBuy $179 a year and they fund AppleCare on every device I own and trust me, I'm getting way more than $179 in annual value just in that.