25% off TV DVDs at Tower
 

I got a mailing from Tower Records.
It included a DVD with the first episode of Entourage.
There were two coupons - one for 25% off the regular price of any TV show on DVD good only at the B&M and a second one for $5 off any TV show on DVD good only online.

Anyone else get this?
Tower is notoriously overpriced so I am wonder if it is even worth the drive to the local store to check for a good deal with the 25% off coupon.

Stay home.

25% off the regular (MSRP) price can be beat for virtually every title at one or more of our regular haunts (Deep Discount, DVD Empire, DVD Planet, etc.).

wait for DDD's 20% off

I used the $5 off online one to get the Family Guy Freakin Sweet DVD for 9.99. (but I had to add a CD too to get free shipping.) I suspect that the $5 off works on anything, even sale items.

Yeah....

Definitely a place to avoid. But when DVD was introduced, I went to Tower every Tues for the first year. No other B+M got new releases on schedule.

I used to do the same for records & CDs. Now there prices are so out of whack compared to just about everybody else, it's crazy. -screwy- Wonder how they stay in business?

Their Tuesday-only new release sales sometimes are the same or better than BB and other B&M's. They have special events bringing in local as well as national talent for midnight signing "parties" (not that often though). Also for the classical interest, they have a great selection better than other B&M's......and for the biggest reason, everytime I go in there the parking lot is about 2/3 full, people are browsing, carrying selections and buying -- probably not doing research and impulse, take it where I can get it and the people there are knowledgeable, especially in the classic section, as from some of the questions I have overheard.

One thing I like about them is that sometimes they have hard-to-find albums and DVD's. I generally buy online from them rather than in-store, unless "impulse" and online they tend to have coupons and some hard-to-find and stuff not in the stores.

IMO.

I concede the point on books, and to a lesser degree, the music, but where I am, at least for DVDs, the "sale" prices are usually the same as most B&M regular prices, even on Tuesday - they can't touch Fry's. The parking lot is usually about 1/3 full & that's again for the book store. The video store has a few folks who are there for the rentals, though they do carry some unusual titles ala Borders (albeit full retail).

I like Tower Records. They sometimes sell catalog cds for $7.99-$8.99.
And their barely used section is great, I got the brand new (at the time) Tom Waits cd for like $6.

Isn't it supposed to be like anytime now. Last years sales, if I remember correctly, were in June and November. So, the 20% off sale should be happening pretty soon, right?