Probably not. It's illegal to sell the coupons. Ebay searches show
500+ hits for converter box and none for converter box coupon. So, you'd have to buy a converter box with the coupon and sell it. It is however legal to give a coupon to a friend, neighbor, or relative.
I had the problem of ordering the coupons as soon as they were available. Unfortunately they had a 90 day limit for redemption, but there were no boxes for sale within that 90 days.
People will just have to choose between buying the boxes at full price, buying digital TVs, signing up for cable or satellite which provide boxes with analog output, or giving up TV.
No HDTV is necessary to get the digital broadcasts. Any new TV (even a small one) has a ATSC (digital) tuner. Also, you probably don't need a new antenna (for HDTV or not).
I know a lot of people who don't understand the digital changeover. Despite all the ads saying that if you have cable or receive your TV signal from satellite, I know a lot of people who got the coupons and bought boxes that don't need them.
Add to that the number of people, as some have mentioned in this thread, are getting the coupons so they can sell them and make a couple of bucks. There goes two big reasons that the money for the coupons ran out.
"Cheri" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news7.newsguy.com:
WalMart checked my ID. They had to scan the card thru their terminal,too. I still have one expired coupon,and CompUSA is now selling a converter for $40.01(what I was waiting for...); I'm thinking of trying to use it,see if it goes thru.
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