GPS shopping ... grrr

Today we went shopping for a new GPS for Karyn's mother.

It seems that most of the shops don't actually want to sell you a GPS.  There was either:

• nobody around to sell you one (various stores)
• when there was someone to serve you they were from the TV section and didn't know anything about GPSs (Dick Smith)
• a problem with their GPS display so they couldn't actually turn one on and demonstrate anything to you (David Jones)

Thank goodness for Harvey Norman.  They had staff who knew about GPSs and were capable of discussing their relative features, a display stand that let you play with the GPSs, and importantly, a post-Christmas sale that made a purchase attractive.  So of course we bought one from there.