nexialist: "..had been clearance priced at $29.95 for a couple of months.."
I think the manager is not right about that.
A similar discussion was about these phones some many month ago already, but they were much more pricy at that time.
Eversince I was constantly monitoring the prices of these, but they weren't this low until some weeks ago.
Office Depot has a system to denote price reduction.
Items on closeout are ending with $.88 , then after a while they are reduced even more and have then the ending of $.66 and the final blow/sale/closeout is at $.22 (priced to go).
The problem with the $.22 period is, that it is for a very short time, normally days only.
After that the items are DESTROYED.
OD's inventory will start soon, therefore they are flushing out such items.
The sad thing is that OD normally does not do a store forward like Staples, so you really have to either drive there (did somebody mention Honolulu?) or persuade them to ship it to you.
Anyhow, the phones are really great so far!