Is this it? As I walked through Best Buy this afternoon I noticed that the Zune HD was on clearance for a price of $152.99. This is not the first time you have been able to score a Zune HD for a prices like this. According to Zune Boards forums, Target sold the Zune HD at a similar price when the chain stopped selling the device. Newegg deactivated the 16GB Zune HD device saying it is out of stock and may or may not be restocked. Amazon lists the 16GB Zune HD as only available through 3rd party resellers. Walmart sells the Zune HD, without any clearance label, albeit for $159.54 – a price similar to other clearance prices.

A check of the Best Buy website shows the Best Buy website now sells only Zune Pass in the location you would expect to find Zune devices. The lack of a product page is odd as HP’s recently discontinued TouchPads still have product listings while the presumably still in-production Zune HD has none, as evidenced by the picture above. A sales representative at the customer service number of Best Buy’s website told me there were no Zunes in stock on the website or in Best Buy stores. When I asked about future availability I was told there was no set replenishment date and to call in periodically. Take it for what it is, but get your Zune HD from your local Best Buy or Walmart while you can.

Considering these facts and the age of the Zune HD itself, I have to wonder, is Best Buy going to stop selling the Zune HD? If so, to my knowledge, that leaves Walmart as the only national retailer still selling the Zune HD in stores. More importantly, with Zune out of stock at so many first-party retailers, what comes next in the Zune media player lineage?