It's all about the person you find, I have made a lot of good friends at Oakley. But then like you say there are some that won't go that extra mile for you.What was weird was that at my regular O store, they told me it was long discontinued and said nothing else. So I was at a vault and he was showing me some sunglasses and I saw "12 gauge" and a price on a sticky note on the inside of the case.
So I asked if they had one and he said they had just transferred it out, but that he'd look in the system and find me one. So a few phone calls later he found one in Orlando and had it transferred. He was super cool about it. Plus the fact that it was already clearanced priced. It was a pretty good deal.
Weird how the O store made no effort to help, but the Vault guy was eager to help. Plus he got me a Carbon carabiner and was going to get me a robot too.