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Hi All, I had a chore today to pickup two DTV boxes for my friend which he just had an heart attack a couple weeks ago.he's recovering now, he will be ok.back to the topic.
today I stop at Wal-Mart in town to see what they had in stock , which was about a dozen, so I grab two Magnavox DTV boxes and bring them up to the front register due to the electronis dept was closed at the time.at the register I had the cashier scanned the two boxes first to use the $40 dollar coupons and ring them on a seperate bill then my perchase.ok so the cashier ringed the boxes up and Returned the coupons back to me.I thought they suppost to confiscate them from the costomer .they did confiscate the coupons when I picked mine up last march.Do these get zeroed out like a gift card when used.sorry about the long read ,did this happen to any of you.
 
I had a similar experience.

I bought a box at a Walmart and the coupon was returned to me. Another purchase at Best Buy and they kept the coupon, as did another purchase at Radio Shack. I recently bought another box online and they just wanted the number and didn't ask me to mail the coupons to them.
 
MarcB said:
As a Walmart cashier I can tell you, those DTV cards are supposed to be put in the bag with any coupons and gift cards customers have redeemed. That's what the CSMs told us cashiers to do at my store.
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Can you tell us if they are zero'd out? Or can't you tell?
 
Mark said:
Can you tell us if they are zero'd out? Or can't you tell?
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The Magnavox box that the original poster mentioned is $49 and change. For the purpose of this discussion lets say $49.97 (a lot of products sold at Walmart end in 97 cents). If the box is the only item the customer is purchasing the cashier hits total. (I never paid attention to whether or not these boxes are subject to sales tax or not. For the purpose of this discussion lets say there's no tax). The customer then hands me his DTV card. I push the credit card button on my keyboard and slide it through the card slot on my keyboard. It says processing. Then the customer has to sign the pin-pad. Then the register tells me the remaining amount the customer owes. In this case the customer owes $9.97, which they can pay however they want (cash, check, debit, or credit). When the order is finished it prints out the receipt and on the receipt it shows the purchase and also lists the Voucher they used. I put the DTV card in my bag that we keep used coupons and gift cards in.

In other words its no different than if a customer uses a Walmart gift card or one of those pre-paid Master or Visa Cards to pay for their purchases except in the case of the DTV card, they're not reloadable.
 
WPPCProductions said:
Do these get zeroed out like a gift card when used.sorry about the long read ,did this happen to any of you.
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In theory. They are, essentially, stored-value debit cards, and you shouldn't be able to re-use them even if they're handed back to you.
 
It may vary from one state to another or one store to another, but on the boxes I bought in Jackson, TN sales tax was added on to the full price of the box, and the coupon removed $40.00. I bought an RCA box at Wal Mart for $49.97 + $4.87 tax = $54.84 - $40.00 = $14.84. Then I bought an Insignia box at Best Buy for $59.95 + $5.84 = $65.79 - $40.00 = $25.79. Needless to say, TN has one of the highest sales tax rates in the nation, but at least we don't have income tax. ::)

It also varies from one store to another about how much tax is added. I work as a cashier part time at Lowe's and we have coupons that take "$XX off a $XXX purchase" and the way the computer runs it the tax is figured after the coupon is processed at the lower total.
 
While we're (sort of) on the subject.....

I've bought several different types of boxes (I seem to be the point guy for grandparents and other uninformed TV watchers) but have settled on the Channel Master CM-7000 for my own use. It is the only one I found (eligible for coupon) that has an s-video port. All the boxes have small differences but most are not worth noting. You can buy the Channel Master from Solid Signal (online) for $41.xx minus coupon plus shipping. I just bought two for about $21 and that included $12 shipping.
 
Yes, there is sales tax on those converter boxes (6% in Connecticut). The Walmart I work at has either the Magnavox boxes or the RCA boxes. We run the coupon through as if the customer was paying $40 on a credit card (where they sign the screen). Our pre-coupon price is $49.87. We usually hand the coupon back to the customer. I'm not sure how exchanges and refunds are done, since that's at the Customer Service Desk and not in our department.
 
When I bought the first two boxes at Walmart the clerk handed the coupons back to me telling me they could be used again if I returned the original box for some reason. The other stores said they would replace the defective box or give me a store credit but would not reuse the coupon.
 
I bought one of the RCA boxes last summer at a Walmart here in Houston. They did NOT charge sales tax, but they did keep the coupon card.
 
My experience when I bought my two boxes was Wal-Mart didn't take the card back, mainly because I requested my coupons on day one and bought the box in mid-February last year in a store only open two days and in grand opening mode, so they didn't get around to how exactly to do the coupon procedure yet.

But two months later when I bought my Insignia at Best Buy, they had me give it to them, so I guess they had the procedure down pat there.
 
Texas tax law has the tax based on the final price of the item - $50 (item) - $40 (coupon) = $10 (final price) + $.60 (6% tax) = $10.60. (vs. $50 + $3 tax -$40 coupon = $13). Gift cards are applied after tax, but the government card is an actual coupon.

How I know this is that Best Buy was charging tax on the initial price and I received a nice $5 gift card in the mail from BB, since the state called them out on it and forced them to refund the difference. I also got a $7.50 gift card at the local store, since they hadn't fixed the computers yet, and I called them on it... ($7.50 gift card was easier for them to process than trying to to the "pre-tax" coupon. There must have been something to managers about $7.50, since I would have been happy with $5 ;) )

Jim
 
Last year, Sears wouldn't let me use a credit card.

They said I could use a credit card to buy a gift card and then they would use the gift card when I purchased the converter boxes. One of them I don't plan to use until June 12 because I have one station that will be VHF and I need a different antenna setup. Because of the delay, I've watched that one station (and another that developed a problem that can't be fixed until June 12) on analog TV. Fewer worries.

I hope it still works. I have to choose between a combination TV/VCR with no timer (it's supposed to have one but it's never worked) and one with no VCR (unless I can get the tape out--I'm almost there! But is the problem one that will mess up other tapes?). Neither option is appealing. Plus the kitchen is not a good location receptionwise.
 
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