The Official Expired Converter Coupon Complaint Thread

[aelarol]

I let mine expire because I did not notice an expiration date on the card. I was sort of preoccupied paying for my dead boyfriends funeral.

[staticMHZ]

i just got another coupon in the mail today

no idea why you people are having problems

[WANDA KAY BULLARD]

I have been unemployed since july and my coupons expired in 09/16/2008. I did not have the extra money to buy a box can these be used or replaced?????????????????

[mkg421]

I ordered my coupons in Nov. I got them last week, guess what? THEY ARE EXPIRED! Where have they been for 3 months?

[laidlaw50@yahoo.com]

I am also a holder of expired converter coupons..When are they going to realize there is alot of people in this situation?? I need boxes but cant reapply or get any answers what to do???

[laidlaw50@yahoo.com]

This is to staticstem.. How did you get another card in the mail..where do we go to reorder??

[Jay]

Originally Posted by laidlaw50@yahoo.com

This is to staticstem.. How did you get another card in the mail..where do we go to reorder??

Staticstem is probably referring to his first set of coupons, not a coupon reorder. The Government is currently not allowing expired coupon holders to reapply to the converter box coupon program. For more info, see Answer #11 at: http://www.dtvusaforum.com/everythin...s-answers.html

[povertystricken]

I, too, went thru the same as others--got the coupons early--there were none in the stores--and then when I found some I saw the cards had expiration dates. Notified the government to no avail. My sister also never received hers and it is "just too bad." And now I found places selling the converter boxes at 3x the original price! Shame on them! TV is one of the only affordable forms of entertainment left for a great many people and if I could afford cable I would have it and the government wonders why we think so little of them and their antics!

[divxhacker]

I can just imagine how much they are saving by putting expiration dates on these coupons. I'll bet that less than half of the budget allowed for the DTV coupons actually does ever get used. I talked with a store manager, and they say they have to keep bookeeping on the used coupons for 90 days - they make the customer surrender the coupon so they can make sure it's paid legally. They've had the government flake in the past with WIC checks, so they have to make sure that it doesn't happen with these coupons.

So it takes 90 days. The value of the expired coupons don't go back into the pool for new coupons until the credit card statements don't show any activity for the expired coupons. Some merchant banks are a bit slow to report the full details of the usage of the cards, it just takes too much time. That's why Mary said not to wait for the coupons and buy the converter(s), even if it dents your budget up a bit.

In one year, after these coupons are gone, I'll bet the prices for these things would crash as the stores would want to liquidate the remaining stock, if there are any left. All that would be left in the market are devices that aren't coupon eligible, such as DVRS with digital tuners.

[mawind]

Originally Posted by ljb15

In the last 6 months Ive been to all the major stores in my area and still have not seen ONE box!! Are the EBAY HOGS grabbing them????? I have two coupons I cant use that have now expired! Leave it up to our goverment to screw up another program!

They also told me that my coupons had been sent but they never arrived and now I can't have anymore - And we expect these people to know what to do with 3-infinity Trillion $$'s to FIX our economy. Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!