'They say the heater is free and you're actually just buying the case.' Jean Szuchan got one after seeing an ad for it in the paper. The company says THAT product is a 'miracle', too! Universal Techtronics also makes a heater called Heat Surge. Universal says it believes it offers a very competitive package, and points out that it offers a 5-year warranty where as the company claims most retail boxes come with only a 1-year warranty for 50-dollars.

It also says it offers a better converter box option than most and stands behind its product with the best warranty available. You can get a box for as low as 40-dollars, which would make your box really free.īut Universal Techtronics says its offer makes it so you don't have to wait until you get a government coupon. Remember, the government will send you two coupons worth 40-dollars each that you can put toward the purchase of a converter box. a free offer should never come with strings attached.' Goode says, 'This appears to be a deceptive practice. So your total ends up being at least 68-dollars! 'They charge 59-dollars in order for a person to receive a five-year warranty and then they charge shipping and handling charges.' 'This is the same box or a similar box as what you can buy in the store,' says Goode.Īnd to get Universal Techtronics' free box you have to buy a five-year warranty from the company! And while the company - Universal Techtronics - calls its box a miracle, the Better Business Bureau isn't so sure there's anything miraculous about it. Indeed the ad is for a digital TV converter box, which some consumers will need when stations stop broadcasting analog signals in February 2009. In it, the company claims to offer amazing new boxes called Miracle ClearView TV for free!Īndy Goode from the Better Business Bureau says, 'What they're promising is a box that will take the new digital signal and convert it to TVs that can only accept an analog signal.'

The ad is running in newspapers nationwide.

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