phavens's Journal: A case of the Mondays...

Well I had a good weekend where I celebrated my sons 2nd Birthday... In doing so you go ahead and do your best to spoil hime the best you can, and since we got our return back welllll :-)>

So to get to the point taken. We went out and bought a Sony Handcam. Which one you ask? THE ONLY DAMN ONE AVAILABLE. What is it with stores only ordering something maybe once a year and once sold out, keeping the diplay units up and not restocking?

I went to Walmart in Napa and out of 8 possibles that had only a few of one of them (The Sony Handycam 108). Now of the 8 I was only looking at the two Handycams they had, a 108 and a 308 and they were selling them for $300... both of them. (Excuse me $.50 difference with the 308 being cheaper.) And then we went to Target in Napa. Only three options... NONE IN STOCK. The sales person informed me that it had been that was as long as he could remember. Ok wanting to get one for the party the next day we went to the Walmart in Vallejo. Here they had a wide slection of them including the 108 ($250), the 308 ($320), and also the 608 ($360) that had the ability to plug directly into a computer via USB (not sure but hoped it was USB2). Now of course I wanted the best one I could.. so I asked what ones they had in stock. And you guessed it.. the 108. And deciding I was frustrated with the whole process and at this point willing to be happy with saving $50 and get the heck out of there.

Now I like the camera and it worked very well for the party... I'm sure that I'd miss the features that were in the other models more. Why is it that they advertise selling the damn things and don't carry them?