More info on Sirius XM and their willingness to come down on the rates

Here's the latest.

They wanted $209 for a 12 month renewal.

Well, I don't have that money (maybe you already read the post about me not getting back my rental deposit, if not, it's a couple posts down)

So, I called them up and it takes 8 minutes to get the 1st guy to understand I will not be renewing my subscription.

8 minutes... he probably doesn't speak English very well. I don't know why, I do believe it's an American company, catering to USA drivers.

Anyway, he can't do anything with an account anyway, we all probably know that. The 1st person is just to get your call to the right person who handles accounts

So then I talk to a woman that has NOTHING in the notes from the 8 minutes I just spent talking to James, and I waste 2 minutes telling her I am not renewing.

THEN she has to try and get me to stay on the billing. I don't know why they are desperate to keep an upset customer, or a broke one. She asked why I would not renew, and I told her, because your company can't take a note, and put it in the account with my name on it, and I have to waste my time explaining everything over and over again every time there is a problem.

So, she offers to renew my Sirius XM for a year, or whatever, for 1/2 price.

Then she tried to tell me what a long time I've blah blah and that Sirius will offer blah blah blah

and I say no. I said, you aren't listening to me. I am not renewing.

Then the magic last ditch, low dollar, bottom line offer gets mentioned. $25 dollars for 5 months.

Friends, that's 3.5 times less a month than they want to bill me for at the normal rate. $209 for 12 months, is 17.4 a month.... but when you're telling them you are going away, and turn off the subscription, they suddenly will give you the same amount of Sirius XM radio for about 1/3rd the price (for 5 months)

I've mentioned this before. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Sirius%20XM 

Sirius XM prices are going up, maybe it's time to just share the music library and grow it

The automatic renewal (if you're foolish and give them your credit card number) was 175 dollars for the 12 months of Jan 2014 to Jan 2015

As of Feb 2017 a renewal for 12 months is $218 a year.

That's nearly 4 dollars more a month, and they included a note that as of April of 2017, the price will increase another dollar  a month.

By my math, the price has already been increasing more than a dollar a year.

As I've done in the past, I advice all of you to check on the renewal situation of your XM/Sirius radio contract or subscription, tell them you are cancelling.

A couple months down the line, you'll get a sweet heart offer for 1/4 or less of the normal charge. That's been my experience. Just thought you'd like to know.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/05/advice-for-all-xmsirius-subscribers.html

Also, consider this.... maybe you too are paying for unlimited data on your cell phone. I am. About a 100 a year, T-Mobile. 

So, really, would you pay more than 5 bucks a month for Sirius XM when you can take your phone, access You Tube, and listen to whatever you might want? Or Pandora? Or even all your old Cds if you've ripped them to your computer and loaded them onto your cell phone, thumb drive, or portable hard drive 

This reminds me, I've put all my old cds music onto a hard drive, I call it my music library. So have other people. Some times when people add their libraries together they get a hell of a lot of incredible sharing (hey, I'm sharing stuff on this blog every day, with you) of music, and without buying more cds. 

If you want to share your music library, like I do, let me know. We can send the hard drive around, and have people add theirs to it, and when it gets to the next person on the list, they can get all that's on it, add theirs to it, and send it on along. So far I've got about 3/4s of a terabyte of music. But I still don't have the Who, the Guess Who, and some others that I'd love to listen to more, like some 80s big hair bands and rock n roll. 

Just fyi.