Then it sounds like the P80 was definitely a good purchase
for you.
On the other hand - I don't know if I'd like a Pico S or not...didn't matter if it was/wasn't OOS other places...nor if they were more or less elsewhere...I didn't
need it (I already have more than enough for myself and several others)...so I backed away.
About this: it had a guy's name and address in CA on the package
That's the guy who actually receives shipments of stuff from VS when it comes in to CA. They then put the stuff on their website as being at their "US warehouse" location (his home or storage building). He got the extra $15+ of the S/H you were charged...above the approx. $8.40 it
actually likely cost to have it mailed to you. Packages I've gotten from them had a guy's name & address in CA on them, too.
He's probably the guy who has my 3 purple Eleaf Pico Squeeze 2 Mods that made it there from China...then mysteriously disappeared when they were picked up from the airport in LA. There wasn't even a new tracking number for the package, as there always is, once it's turned over to the USPS for final delivery from there. That's because he never relabeled it and turned it over to them.