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MT RON · Jan 25, 2016

Got my notice to renew my XM for another year and it was like 204.00.There is now a 25.00 charge for song royalties.I called and got someone in India of course and told him I wanted to just cancel.He ended up giving me a year for 87.00.Of course next year it goes back up over 200.00.I don't use it enough to pay that much.Just had to vent a little.Ron

old bc · Jan 25, 2016

XM sued trying to get out of the royalty payments but lost.
Regular broadcast stations don't have to pay it. I have two vehicles
and do the two year contract because it is a little cheaper.

rrc300 u · Jan 25, 2016

I let mine cancel. Then I get some things in the mail about every other week giving me all kinds of "good customer come back" deals. I wonder why they don't treat a long time customer like that? No loyalty from them = no loyalty from me. I had been a subscriber since about 2006 or 7. I got it when I was driving an hour plus both ways to work. I haven't had to do any job site s like that in quite a while. I might reconsider if the drive time goes back up but for now amfm is working.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 25, 2016

I enjoy the xm radio , and just hate the news , sports and ads on am/fm radio. As well as their attempts to brain wash every one with their "social " views.

Fatjay · Jan 25, 2016

I enjoy my XM as well. I do try to cancel every year when the price goes up, but they keep offering me that $87/yr bit. Fort hat price I'll keep it, but if they stop doing that, it'll be the end of it.

Sirius does not have the same option. Even though they're the same company htey keep financials seperate, and don't give you the option to renew at a reduced rate.

centash · Jan 25, 2016

What bugs me is that you can only listen while you[re in the car. For the subscription price, you should be able to listen 24/7. I do like the 60's music though.

Ben

Lazy WP · Jan 25, 2016

I got my first Sirius radio, 11 years ago. Back then I could have bought a lifetime contract for $300. Never figured it would go up. My Dodge pickup has Sirius in it, plus I still have 3 or 4 portables. Last time I tried to renew, I told them I wanted a paper bill, and NO automatic withdrawal. They wouldn't do it. All of our vehicles have a CD player, or in the pickup a HDD, so the wife just builds our own music CDs. If you convert them to mp3 you can get 165 songs on a CD. Besides, they just don't make decent country music anymore.

JF in MI · Jan 25, 2016

I let our Sirus contract laps also. It is nice but not worth the money. Now that my wife is retired and not commuting she spends only about 10% of the time in the car she used to so even less point to it.

Married2Allis · Jan 25, 2016

I got the same bill in the mail to renew and got the same 'come back now that you're pi$$ed' offer. No thanks. Not with the poor quality audio. The local FM classic country station plays as good or better music and I get local news. I think the choices on XM are pathetic. Each channel is just the same prerecorded stuff day after day. Who wants to pay for 10 comedy channels and 2 Howard Stern channels?

cuby · Jan 25, 2016

I have 2 GM vehicles with XM and I canceld both. No use paying for it if you dont drive that much,but it is good country on some stations. I like it if on a long road trip.

This new "country" is for the younger group as us old foggies cannt understand what they are saying if they call that "singing".

John M · Jan 25, 2016

Have it on my truck and our Enclave. Ill probably ditch it on my truck when it come time to renew. The stations I listen to now have the same boring morning shows regular stations do, and thats why I got it to start with, so I wouldnt have to listen to the garbage in the mornings.

Dan Richardson · Jan 25, 2016

I don't care what it costs. I will not do business with any company that employes someone I can't understand.

dr sportster · Jan 25, 2016

I remember working in a corporate computer room and a guy with XM is listening to Stern and Stern starts cursing . The foreman put an instant stop to that radio. Not going to impress anyone with that.

SmokeEater2 · Jan 25, 2016

(quoted from post at 05:21:49 01/25/16)

What bugs me is that you can only listen while you[re in the car. For the subscription price, you should be able to listen 24/7. I do like the 60's music though.

Ben

You can. I have a docking radio in the house that my truck radio plugs into.

I'm listening to Ag Day on it right now. The rural radio channel and the conservative talk channel are the main reasons I subscribe.

My wife really likes a couple of the music channels they have.

Pete in MD · Jan 25, 2016

Ben,
I have it for no extra charge on my laptop. If I had a smart phone I could get it there free too.
Go to the Sirius/XM website and check into it.

JimS · Jan 25, 2016

BMI, the company that collects royalties on behalf of musicians, is vicious. That is what ia at issue with the $25 surcharge. I have worked for businesses that get innocent sounding calls asking if they play music in the gym, restaurant, bar, whatever the venue is. If they say yes, they get a visit demanding payment. God help you if you don't pay; you will end up n court and I have yet to hear of anyone winning against them.

Think of that next time you hear some liberalism/socialism spouting artist complaining about one percenters and know they have their own Gestapo like organization to extract payment.

Russ from MN · Jan 25, 2016

My wife is a good negotiator, we get ours very reasonable. Full price is for suckers!

charlie n · Jan 25, 2016

Have had it since 2010.Got 6 months free when we bought a F150.Still have it and have paid $84.00 every year. The wife calls 2 weeks before contract is up and tells them we're cancelling.They always agree on $7.00 a month. As long as it stays at that price I'm content.

It is nice when you travel. As far as CDs go $15.00-$21.00 each. And then
there's the Ipod. $.99 a song. No bargain there ether.
I'll stay with Sirus.

INCase · Jan 25, 2016

i do the same thing every year.

$87 is the best I've heard. I thought $105 was good with all fees/taxes ect ect.

when they don't bite i let it expire and they come around in a week or 2 with a good deal.

jeffcat · Jan 25, 2016

There is a term they use for that. Something like { customer threat of cancelation}. Works for cable and cell phones too. Give it a try! I need to go to my local Sprint place and yell at them again!

vscummins · Jan 25, 2016

I love mine couldn't live without it in the winter time I drive truck the regular radio makes me want to strangle somebody the crap they call music anymore . It is getting expensive though but it's cheaper than buying CDs that get scratched and quit working

Mark - IN. · Jan 25, 2016

When one of my sisters bought her car new it came with it I think for a year, and she didn't sign or resign, and it stopped. Then she took her car in to get serviced, and when she left the dealer it was working and did so for about a month. Next time she took her car in for service, same thing. When it quit again, because the dealer was near where she works, so she popped in, asked a few questions about something, then drove off and it worked again for about 30 days and stopped. She did that a few times, pulled in near the service area, drove off, 30 more days. I don't know if she still does or not. I do know that it didn't exist when I bought any of my trucks and since I have no plans of buying another new one, I'll never have access to it. Hard to miss what you've never had.

Mark

Robert Major · Jan 25, 2016

Hi
If thats what satellite radio subscriptions cost up here in Canada with the junk exchange rate. The Belarus I got in the shop now for a customer has it in. That subscription is worth about 4 times the value of the tractor, Maybe he should sell/ scrap the tractor and buy a JD. Then it won't look real expensive when he has to fix that as the tractors worth a bit more than the parts/ labor and satellite radio subscription L.O.L.
Regards Robert

muleboss · Jan 25, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:22:30 01/25/16) Have it on my truck and our Enclave. Ill probably ditch it on my truck when it come time to renew. The stations I listen to now have the same boring morning shows regular stations do, and thats why I got it to start with, so I wouldnt have to listen to the garbage in the mornings.

Change the station. There is a button for that.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jan 25, 2016

My truck came with one (Sirius), and I kept it renewed for 2 more years. Then I discontinued it since I rarely drive my truck very far anymore. They kept sendign me all of these fantastic offers, I and I bought a universal one and mounted it in my shop, then another mounting kit for the truck so if I have a long truck to make I just take the one from the shop to the truck.

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