From what my salesman told me, his dealership had picked up four or five (I can't remember the exact number) extra '08s to sell (they'd originally been allotted four or five) because some dealerships (generally smaller ones) didn't want to get into the Challenger business because they don't normally handle SRTs and don't have staffers who've taken whatever sort of training is necessary for SRTs. It might be that you encountered several places like that in a row.