Kodak Z612 Digital Camera

ray wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:08:06 -0500, John Turco wrote:

<edited, for brevity>

> > Incidentally, my local Wal-Mart recently started carrying "Impact" 1GB
> > SD cards, at $19.74 USD, each; no sales events, nor rebates, needed.
> >
> > [Note: I'd bought one, at a different Wal-Mart store, a couple of months
> > ago. Another shopper had thrown it into a clearance bin, apparently;
> > lacking a price tag, I ran the Impact package's UPC under a bar scanner,
> > which Wal-Mart had installed, for its customers' convenience.
> >
> > So, when it came up with $19.74, I mistakenly thought I'd stumbled upon
> > a nice, juicy, closeout bargain! <g>]
> >
> >
> > Cordially,
> > John Turco <jtur DeleteThis @concentric.net>
>
> Interesting. I recall checking WM shortly before Thanksgiving. Manager
> asked if he could help me find anything. I simply queried how come they
> were selling 1gb SD cards for about $60 when OfficeMax and Staples had
> them for about $25. He just shrugged and said it had to be the same brand
> for them to price match. He asked what brand they were - I replied "who
> cares?"


Hello, Ray:

I just went to that "different Wal-Mart store" (adjacent to a Sam's
Club), last Wednesday (2-7-07), and it had the "Impact" 1GB SD cards
($19.74), out in the open.

In contrast, the "local Wal-Mart" keeps them behind locked, glass
doors; although, strangely, they're right next to the name-brand
products, many of which are simply locked onto hangers.

Didn't buy anything, by the way. :-J


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur DeleteThis @concentric.net>

John Turco wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>> John Turco wrote:
>
> <edited, for brevity
>
>>> Kodak-branded memory cards are made by Lexar, as the "God of the Big
>>> Yellow Box" clearly states, on its packaging. :-J
>>>
>>>
>>> Cordially,
>>> John Turco <jtur.RemoveThis@concentric.net>
>> Yeah, but Kodak relabels them, and triples the price.
>
> Hello, Ron:
>
> I never implied that Kodak doesn't plaster its own name, all over
> its Lexar-supplied stuff.
>
> [What is it about my "Kodak-branded" statement, which escapes your
> grasp? <g>]
>
>> Still, I recently
>> saw an ad for HP computers and cameras that wanted over $100 for a
>> 512meg card.... And I suspect some people actually PAY that much....
>
> Getting stuck with a Hewlett-Packard digicam, at >any< price -- quite a
> "shuttering thought," no? Only thing more depressing, would be Sigma
> branching out into computers!
>
>
> Cordially,
> John Turco <jtur.RemoveThis@concentric.net>

Actually, HP has made some pretty good cameras. My neighbor has one she
takes pictures of flower with, and they are outstanding. The cheap ones
are, well, cheap.