ron lee green

I'm going to try to go the day after Thanksgiving in the hopes that dvds will be 50% off. Wishful thinking?

IamLegend

Any updates on the Orange County Stores...inventory selections on cds and dvds and inkling of 50/% off...that is my target to check some things out.

StealMeWinona

I've been to a few Bay Area stores. Campbell's hopeless. San Jose and San Mateo still have some Fox noirs left and some assorted Criterions. I was lucky to find Jules and Jim and Three Colors: Blue in an unassorted bin. I had $35.80 left on a gift card and I ended up getting ten cents back.

The San Jose store had one copy of Olivier's Shakespeare box set if anyone's interested. Also, if there are any Ellie Parker fans (a movie you have to see), San Jose had one copy in an unassorted bin and San Mateo had two copies, but one with the disc loose. I didn't get it with the Jules and Jim DVD 'cause that would've involved spending actual money.

DJariya

Went to the Tower records at Buena Park mall on Saturday. Right now it's at 40% off.

reubs82

Wishful thinking or not, I'm sure people will clean the Towers out the days after Thanksgiving thinking they are getting deals on CDs and DVDs at 40% or 50% off.

Ravid

What do you mean by "leftovers"?

porieux

Wow, they actually managed to sell one! The place by me has about 500 of those. I think they will be paying people to take them on the last day.

BTW I overheard a cashier saying they'd be open about 3 more weeks.

Legolas

I went into my local Tower and the sales were at 30% off. What was laughable was that they were still more expensive than a lot of online stores' regular prices without sales coupons.

PJsig08

What a joke. I was there and it was 40-60% off and I still found nothing worthwhile.

Oh well, bye bye Tower.

CTH

Its still 40% off near me. I'll echo what others have said, when their CDs are priced at $18.99 (plus 7% tax) its no wonder they are going out of business.

wm lopez

Yeah, but Tower did carry everything that was made.
What I always did was go there look around and find stuff I didn't know came out and then order it online from some other store.
Their prices were high, but a great store to hang out and browse.

Walter Neff

It's kind of funny. When I was a teenager and in college, Tower's prices on CDs weren't too terrible -- not a lot below MSRP, but enough to make shopping there not a total waste of money. Then, as the market got more and more competitive with stores like Best Buy and Internet retailers selling for a lot below MSRP, Tower's prices got higher and higher. Seemed like a strange strategy. Ah well. I'll miss Tower, but I've rarely bought much there in recent years.

joliom

Not really. I like a lot of oldies and they rarely had the stuff I was looking for. Granted their selection was worlds better than places like Sam Goody. In the days of B&M's, when there were no online alternatives they were king. But since Amazon, CDNow, Deep Discount, etc. came around they took a backseat both in terms of competitive pricing and in selection.


That's probably what I'll miss most. It's not the same browsing at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. They really only carry the big name obvious titles, and not the more obscure stuff.

Alan Smithee

Thursday and Friday all the stores will have 5 CDs for the price of 4, with 40% off the list price (lowest-priced one is free), also a few stores have individual deals going on. One had all HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs 50% off, another had 50% off all TV show discs.

porieux

They will be open on Thanksgiving day??

Hank1215

Portland Oregon store is open from 11-7.

bearkiss

I just got back from the tower store in nashville... they too are open 11-7 thanksgiving day... quite crowded... most people holding multi discs... buy 4 get 1 free with the 4 bought being 40% is quite a deal! (makes them nearly 50% off if you're buying 5)... stock is beginning to looked picked over on most titles... then again, they have more copies of some than they had of that same title just a week ago so they're still getting stock or transfers in... singles are now 70% off and also included in the buy 4 get 1 free deal...

porieux

Thanks for the info. It actually makes them 52% off doesn't it?

filmsoncon

Anybody have any idea what the discounts are going to be after Friday?

IamLegend

Any Orange County reports on prices/inventory at stores cds/dvds

Arpeggi

Tustin and Laguna Hills have 40% off cds with buy 4 get 1 free. Tustin has hip hop cds for 50% off but Laguna doesn't.

GuessWho

Here in Chicago:

DVDs 40%
CDs (pop rock) 40% -- buy 4, get 1 free
Cds (rap, dance) 50%
CD singles 70%

Manager's specials.... Stadium arcadium $8.50, beavis & Butthead Mike Judge Collection v1 $14.00

filmsoncon

Any word on if the 4-for-5 extended into the weekend--and if not, what the current deal is at Tower stores?

bwsmom

Portland is pretty much the same, but the Manager's special was the Napoeleon Dynamite SE w/Tin, t-shirt, etc., for $23.00. Still had LOTS of copies left.

Alan Smithee

They've got TONS of those Napoleon Dynamite sets- they should be down to a buck or so by the last day. There's thousands of the Tony Orlando & Dawn Show collection throughout all the stores too; I've meant to get that since it came out but they should be giving that away soon too.