$40 camera at wal-mart?

bad idea. but here’s how I came to decide to buy it.

I shopped on wal-mart.com. I was hoping that they had fixed the most annoying thing about wal-mart.com. That you can’t find out what something would cost in the store, or if it’s in stock.

So anyhow, I found they had a 4MP Elph on the web for $250. That’s not a bad deal. Plus it included free shipping to the local store. So I go to the store. They don’t have it. They have the 3MP Elph for $280. I asked for a price check, hoping that it would be less than $250. Nope, it’s $280. Stupid wal-mart. So I buy the cheapest camera they’ve got, figuring I’ll just return the POS if it doesn’t work out.

Yeah, so I’ll be returning it in short order.  Because it was awful.