LD didn't know to discount it. It was on sale for $50, the regular sale price.
It was on the shelf and I asked the Manager to lift it down so I could check the dates and price. When I saw that it was 2010, I reminded him about the 2012 regulations and that he had a few days to clear it out before it had to go into the landfill and he vaguely remembered reading something about that. Then, I asked what the clearance price would be. He called head office and got them to lower the price, I'd probably have grabbed it for a spare if he'd done it then and there, but was home....At any rate, someone else tried at another LD and didn't get anywhere.
So, w/ a little prompting they figured things out, but otherwise, i'd bet it'd still be on the shelf...
As for the New and Better regulations keeping our kids safe, I agree w/ at least 90% of that. The part that gives me a different POV is that some people can't or won't afford a new seat but will buy one off CL. The fact that even poor children deserve to be safe and I now won't sell my seats on CL, even though they are safer than 85% of what I see on CL every time I look. But, the really big one that makes me say, *what ever* is the fact that my not 40# almost 6yo is the ONLY child in his class that is still following the law and in a 5pt harness. He is NOT the only child in that class I can guarantee is under 40#, legal limit. Further, in Pre-school, 3yo & 4yo, he was one of a few kids in 5pt, following the law...So, while I 100% agree this new law is great and I'm thrilled for it and would have liked it to be even stronger than 22# RF (like 2yo), *some* people will simply not follow it, no matter what it says, so why fill our landfill and/or prevent prevent those that can not afford anything better from buying a discounted seat. The new *Law* now says 22# for FF, so it does not matter that my old MA is out there floating around w/ 20#FF on it, some people will follow the law, some won't regardless of what the side of a 2009DOM seat says.
But, really it doesn't matter, the law is you can't sell them, so you can't sell them and *stores* especially should be dealt with b/c give an inch to them and then Graco could go back to making 20#FF GN b/c it was a popular seat and (was it you Trudy?) some people would buy that over Britax that is following the new rules...
tam