One thing that Satellite radio has going for it for someone like myself where you might be sitting in the seat for 8-12 hours going through multiple states is you don't have to keep searching for a station, but on that note I'll agree that they say commercial free but the DJs are gibber jabbering to much about nothing and promoting in house garbage is a form of a commercial. I know I said when the play commercials on the music channels it was being canceled and it's getting close.

 

The one thing I really like to do is listen to audio books.
When I am not doing that then it's music that I have loaded
onto an iPod/iPhone or then I find a station I like on Iheart
(KFI 640 AM From LA) Sort of fun to listen to the state next door
and there fights. Less depressing that local politics.

I recall a time when cable TV was to be ad free. Gee what happened there?
AND Ads have gotten so stupid. If I hear that Gecko one more time I am
going to puke.And they are not the top on the stupid list by a long shot.

Sorry about the rant.

Sean



Marry Christmas

 

We don't get along anymore. Paid full price for a couple years. They would always try to charge the wrong type of credit card then send my the account past due emails. I went about 3yrs. paying half price. This year I ignored the renewal emais. They charged my card full price for the year. I called and said I wanted my money back which they did.

I called about a week later to get it turned back on. There was no way they were going to give it to me for what I had been paying. I said it's that or nothing. They chose nothing. Of course it's holiday time right after this. Lots of time in the truck.

I call so I can get one month service. The guy says ok that's 60 some dollars. One month plus activation. Told him that aint gonna happen and hung up. I called again and the fellow I talked to said they should have left it running for a month after and turned it back on. He said I would probably receive some special offer during that time. It never came. So at the moment I am siriusless.

I would re up with them again but not at full price.

 

My first experience with it in a vehicle was our free 6 months that came with our 2013 we do like it, we also listen to it over our satellite dish and have for years. When the preview was close to coming to a end they called and called until they gave me another 6 months for 4.95 a month, at that time I told them not to contact me by mail but by email because we don't get mail for months at a time. When we did get home I found their bill in the mail along with a automatic renewal to the highest price plan. I called and told them to cancel it, after a long discussion I ended up with music only for 8.95 a month, I also told them their travel was a joke and I got better information off my table and MiFi. I checked my account on line and at the end of our year they have me scheduled to go to the expensive plan again so I will have to go through the whole thing again.

They gave me a free preview of travel and it was a PITA on our trip from Virginia to Florida, all sorts of road alerts that were outdated over our nav system, I just want music only not all the other crap.

Denny

 

wonder how they will stay in business with all these bad experiances.

 

They may not, skip. If you recall Sirius was on the verge of bankruptcy prior to their takeover of XM.

 

I don't think that they have a financial problem. End of 2013, their net income was 65 million. The end of Sept, 9 months later, their net profit was 136 million on 1.057 billion in gross - or about 13%: SIRI Income Statement | Sirius XM Holdings Inc. Stock - Yahoo! Finance

Of course, it is the end of the year now and that final number may "suffer".

I can tell you that that number for 2015 wont include my dollars

 

They have obviously helped their bottom line with the acquisition of XM. But not with my dollars, either.

 

Called and cancelled Sirius today. They offered it to me for $5/month until June - nope, not gonna happen. I did a 184 channel 'tour' this morning while waiting for my wife at an appointment. I have better CDs and mP3 'things' to listen to then their endless loop channels with babbling DJs

 

Welcome to the other side Dave.. Or is that the LIGHT SIDE of the Force??

Now be prepared for their constant barrage of calls, mail and email perstering the cr@p out of you for the next few years...

 

Luckily those calls and other pestering will go to my wife as I was an add on to her account since we bought her Fusion before I bought my truck. She is very quiet but you know when you are done talking to her, she has told you where (and how) to go. Oh .... and she will dump Sirius in June at just about new car time.

 

I'm not going to join once the trial is over.
If I am going to pay for music then I want only music! No DJs talking crap!

 

My free trial is out the middle of March. I tried to use coupons online I found and when I chatted with the online rep he said, "sorry sir we do not honor any online offers other than ours". I told him it is funny how 90% of the folks who tried it got the coupon discount. He again just said sorry. I told him I would not be subscribing then and closed the chat.

The only thing I listen to on it is NASCAR on my trips home from the farm on Sundays. I guess the dvr will just have to record it for me. I won't be subscribing.

 

Glad i bought unlimited back in the day. They keep sending me crap asking me to sign up for a subscription. All i do is laugh at them. As a rational person can any of you think why I would change my unlimited subscription to a paid one? I'm just trying to figure out their reasoning but as of yet i'm stumped.

 

I really like the fine print that states, "To cancel you must call us at 1-866-635-2349". Funny how they will sign you up online but won't cancel you online.