I should have mentioned I want to pay cash for the bitcoins.  I went to the bitinstant website, and it lead me right back to cashpayment.com, which is on their list of agents.  What I don't get is why cashpayment.com would list all these locations and none of the ones I contacted knew anything about cashpayment.com or bitcoins.  This is either gross incompetence, or I'm using the wrong language.  I emailed bitinstant and mentioned the problem, so perhaps they'll answer me and give me a solution.

Walmart was one of the locations listed at cashpayment.com, and they were also mentioned on a different website that also referenced bitinstant.com as the service that made the Walmart connection possible.

I also looked at localbitcoins.com, but the only really close person had a $1000 minimum.  And there were only five persons/businesses listed in my area, a very large city.  There were a few with $20 minimums, but they weren't very close.

Walmart would be perfect, if only I knew how to get them to admit they were really a bitcoin location.

I've tried the location finder on cashpayment.com, and it showed a list of about 20 locations in my area.  I tried some of them, Walmart, Albertsons, CVS, a local check cashing business...none of them had any idea what Bitcoin was, nada!  They'd never heard of it.  I went to Walmart and spoke with their customer service desk (where they sell money orders, etc...) and they tried to find it in their computers.  Again, nothing.  I called Walmart at a different time, different shift.  Again, strike two, nada.  When I called Albertson's, I spoke with a manager, but he had no idea what I was talking about.

All I want to do is buy some Bitcoin to pay for something on the internet.  I want to find a location that sells it that can also tell me what the fees are.  Can someone help me with this, it shouldn't be this hard.

Dan