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We planned for it just about a year in advance, and due to the state of the economy weren't able to afford our second box in time to meet the expiration date.

I have a friend that makes over $100k a year, and he applied for the coupons, which should have been restricted from those in his income level to begin with, Id est. Only those in the Poverty/Low Income levels would qualify, $40/$20, 2 coupons/1 coupon respectively.

To top things off, when I got my coupons I had to wait almost 9 months for any local seller to have the damn things in stock at the MSRP (some sold the $40 boxes for $79.99, Wal-mart advertised the boxes for 1 week at $29.99 before they got stock in, then jacked the price to $39.99 when stock was in), and in fact the first day I went there after a hard days work they had already sold out of the 100 units they had in stock THAT WEEK, yes ONLY 100 UNITS.

The execution and planning that went into this program was FAR worse than the problems were having now with people not being ready. This is NOT including the problems the transition alone will cause after the switchover is complete, i.e. More Channels, Less stable and reliable.
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