She may be correct in saying that the cards are no longer available thru Viking or another store but there are many places that you can buy the cards like on ebay. With the re-writable cards and reader you can still go to places like embroidery.com and down load the .hus files and use them. I paid 600 for my #1 this past winter. I'm glad you didn't take a mere 200 for yours. If you sell it go to ebay or somewhere you can get a decent price for it.