SoIwent on the net, spent15minutesreadingproductreviewsongoodwebsites, wrote down the namesofthreetoprecommendations and headed formynearestbigfriendly camerastore.
Sure, I could probably take advantage of Costco's return policy, but I've come to accept this as my punishment for not reading the reviews -- if you Google the product name, you'll see that I'm not the only one who thinks it's a disaster.