Johnhav430

After the trial that came with the car, or free with used car...I just call every 6 mos. and have been renewing at 2012 rates, 6 mos. for $24.99. My brother does the same, only he even gets the add'l Howard Stern stuff for that price.

The valid promotion is $30 for 6 mos., but I just request them to keep it the same as 2012.

What I was thinking was that in the amazon.com world, the account would simply be canceled since I am asking for a personalized price, as is my brother. And that in Bezos' world, you only do what he says.

I think sure maybe it's not worth $50/yr., but I let it slide...

My buddy who is a wheeler/dealer, for some reason, pays $114/6 mos. and doesn't want to call to get it down to $25. I would love to do that, but cannot....

LexBob2

I'm on the $25 for 5 or 6 months on each cat. It's a pain to have to all every 6 months but for now I want to keep it mainly for the variety of choices when I get tired of the usual stuff. There are MANY who have cancelled after any trial period.

mmarshall

Howard Stern? LOL.....give me a break.

Personally, I like the XM/Sirius account I have. I don't have the complaints with the sound-quality that some other people have, although I do think it's overpriced, especially compared to what your brother pays.

JDR76

BoDarville

you play that thru your phone?

Johnhav430

haha I agree. I do remember watching some special in the 90's at a New Year's Eve party, but that's it. When I got a free trial on the 2006 LS430 (in 2017), it had Howard Stern. I listened to it one time only, and I actually learned that Sheryl Crow was a dancer with Michael Jackson. Had no idea.

When I called to renew they renewed the wrong car, so bizzarre. Two accounts, with the only link being the same CC to pay. The difference is the Lexus was 5 mos for $25, now it is 6 mos. for $29.94. My wife's car is $24.94 for 6 mos. Again, my rationale is let's keep it the same as it was in 2012. And they have no problem with it. Thanks to their mistake the two cars are now coterminus. Like I said if amazon they'd probably turn off my utilities in addition to closing my account...

mjeds

Same here. I've never used Sirius or XM even with the free trials, I don't see the point of paying for commercials, and Sat radio has just as many as OTA radio.

Johnhav430

That's strange, are our receivers stripping out the commercials? When I listen to AM radio there are tons of commercials for rugs, enlargement services, roofing, etc. I haven't heard such on XM in the 6 yrs. we've had it.

mjeds

the couple of trials I had were pumped full of commercials, the main reason I never engaged with the product.

might depend on what you listen to. According to SiriusXM:

LexBob2

I wonder what the retention rate is on all of the Sirius/XM trial periods that come with new vehicles? It must be very low considering how easy it is to get the $25 per 5 or 6 month rate.

RXSF

the company is so annoying, endless mail and even calls to get you to subscribe back. XM radio is fine, but its not great. I can live without it and I have enough FM presets to switch around to bypass commercials. Now that data is becoming cheaper, streaming from your phone isn't as dangerous as it was before.

Sound quality on older cars was bad, but newer cars are able to cope with it quite well. I can barely tell the difference between it and FM HD radio in my benz.

kagete

The music stations on XM have no ads, but all the talk channels have TONS of ads between segments. Sometimes it feels like there are 10 minutes of ads while listening to ESPN or NBA Radio. It's unfortunate that these are the primary reasons for keeping XM for me.

SW17LS

I've never heard a commercial on any music station on XM/Sirius in the 13+ years I've had it. There are commercials on the sports and talk stations, but not the music stations.

I've actually been listening to Pandora and Slacker a lot and have found I haven't been listening to XM that much lately...sound quality on them is much better.

jgscott

iTrader: (1)

Ditched XM after the Trial. Nothing special about it to me. Have to listen to what they want randomly. Cant choose what and when I want. Sound quality not good. But I had No commercials when I had it.

I use Pandora and Tidal. Tidal is very high quality sound. You can tell the difference.

tex2670

OMG, same here. My last renewal, Sirius XM was running an advertised promotion for 1 yr/$60 when I had 1 car expiring, so I renewed for that price; and then they agreed to renew my other car at that rate, so I had matching expiration dates. I told my neighbor--who same as your buddy, researches and works a deal for everything, and had his eyes almost pop out of his head when I told him about 6/$25--and I gave him the heads up about the 1/$60 promo. He called, they told him "Oh that's only for new customers", and he said thanks and hung up. And then I pointed out to him that I wasn't a new customer, and he just said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You don't think they overprice it so they can then discount it so that we all think we are getting this amazing deal?