I made a special trip yesterday to the Bellevue Circuit City to check out the Karma. It was on the bottom shelf of a locked cabinet and nearly invisible. If I too had not been specifically looking for it, I would have never found it.

I was disappointed there wasn't an open box display of the new Rios. I would have liked to have held the unit in my hands, and compared with the others there. They did have a few of
the other players hanging on the display hooks, but that's not the same. I think the weird over-sized plastic packaging makes it extremely difficult to find space for display.

The Karma did look very small, but the two units were stocked under several 20&40GB iPods. There was a $20 rebate for the Karma, making it slightly less expensive, but the iPod packaging looks so much nicer...

Here's hoping Karma gets some better placement soon.