Delta also sells coupons to people at least 62 years old, in books of four or eight.

Continental, in addition to the passes described above, also sells coupons, called Freedom Trips.

Hawaiian Airlines now sells coupons for inter-island flights at Bank of Hawaii A.T.M.'s.

Some sites sell coupons in bulk (like 20 coupons for $1 off General Mills cereal); you buy them and they send the coupons to you.

Whatever the case, Chrysler's experience appears to suggest that without the opportunity to sell coupons to a broker, few recipients will use scrip to buy big-ticket items.

A number of smaller airlines also sell coupons.

Another sign warns consumers to beware of hucksters selling fraudulent coupons that supposedly can be exchanged for Tamagotchis.

"They are already selling coupons in the pedestrian underpasses," he said.

He said those brokers agreed to stop selling American coupons and paid the line settlements in "six figures," which he said he could not further explain under the agreement.

The idea is to create traffic by selling modestly priced coupons.