Vendors saying BlackBerry phones are discontinued

This might not be the right place to post this but I had a frustrating experience yesterday at a Wireless Wave location.
I was trying to get another SIM card and unlock my phone to switch providers and the rep kept trying to get me off BlackBerry.  He said that the Z10 and BlackBerry phones in general were discontinued.  They had one Z30 in stock he tried to sell me but Fido would not do a term on it again because as the rep said "they are discontinued".
I was not trying to switch phones I just wanted a new SIM and to unlock my phone.  I told him I liked my Z10.  I was curious about the Z30 but wasnt interested in another term (I switched from Bell because of billing issues and I still have time left on my term with them).   He was really trying to push me to Android.
I doubt that this is isolated to this particular rep or this particular store.  I was seeing a girl in San Diego and seeing as she mostly wanted to just text and email I suggested that she look at a BlackBerry to see if she liked it.  The Verizon rep said "getting a BlackBerry is a bad idea" and wouldnt even let her try the phone out.  He ended up selling her an Iphone5.
My point here is that I'm a BlackBerry fan.  If I wasnt I would have walked out of that store with a different phone and left the platform.
BlackBerry, you need to do more to get these on-the-ground vendors on your side.  The phones are fantastic.  Maybe take the stock writedown on those Z10s and send sales reps out to the individual stores to turn the vendors onto BlackBerry or something?  I've seen little to no advertising and if the places people go to buy phones are telling customers who are specifically asking for BB products not to buy them you wont turn this ship around.

Im quite well aware of whats going on with BlackBerry, I work in financial services and we follow the markets (BB stock up 33% this year!)
I'm also a proud Canadian and happy to have a Canadian product.  Blackberry phones work great here, I've had a guy with a Samsung Galaxy side by side on the same carrier who was in and out of service and I was getting full bars when camping.
Just that the frontline vendors persistently trying to talk me out of my BlackBerry when I'm obviously wanting to keep it I could only imagine someone who likes their blackberry but isnt a fan and doesnt have as much loyalty would be gone.
I know how these guys work, they work for spiffs when they sell a phone.  Maybe if BlackBerry offered a vendor spiff directly it would change their mind.  These guys make like 15-50 for each phone they sell even if it's on a term. 

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