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I bought my car, used from a California BMW dealership they only wanted to give me a three month trial and I thought I talked the sales into giving me six month trial instead. However, that will have been a year ago at the end of April and it's still going strong.

I'll find out for sure by the end of next month but I'm starting to wonder if he either signed me up for a whole year or if being so far from the activation region that it can't disconnect me... either way, I'm grateful for the freebie, lol.

Lucky Joe,
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sometimes a deactivation signal wont hit your stereo, periodically once a quarter they send out a signal, your car may have been off when the signal was sent.

I had this issue too, eventually it got shut off! Or perhaps you're lucky with a free plan, either way free isnt too shabby!
 
Good deal! I received the 3 month trial in August 2012 when I bought my truck. I was worried I would lose service if I didn't activate before it was over. Silly me :(

If and when you do renew make sure you haggle a bit because they will start very high. IME they will come WAY down on price before losing a subscriber.
 
Love my sat radio but just getting tired of paying for it there is a new country FM station in NYC and I can get it clear where we are (~10 Miles north as the crow fly's) so I'm thinking of getting rid of it unless they can give it to me for like 5 bucks a month because I like BPM (electronic dance music) and there are no FM channels that produce that.

Anywho back on topic lucky you lol
 
Are you sure you never game them a credit card? XM/Sirius are notorious for their shady business practices. I used to be a fan back in their prime, but the sound quality and content is terrible now. For me, Pandora is a much better alternative.
 
XM/Sirius has undoubtedly the worst customer service around. Foreign, hard to understand, typical go down the customer service "how to" hand book for helping you out. Threaten to leave and they will give you 3 months free. You can keep that up a while and get a good 6 months of free service maybe more if you really wanna deal with them. Supposed to be commercial free but the stations I listen to are swamped with them.
 
My wifes camara came with a free trial of satelite radio. We live in the sticks and while driving down these back roads the signal would continuously go out. Not worth paying much for. As i recall, it would have been a hefty monthly fee to suscribe to the service. I do miss the comedy stations though.
 
Definitely check to make sure you didn't give them a credit card number. They will auto renew you without telling you and the rate will be high.

Best way we've found to get it for cheap. Threaten to cancel, and if they don't come down low then actually cancel. You'll get a call from them in like a couple weeks saying we can give you a year for like $50 or something. Then you just make sure to cancel again before they renew you. That's how it's gone down the past couple years with my moms car.
 
yakky said:
Are you sure you never game them a credit card? XM/Sirius are notorious for their shady business practices. I used to be a fan back in their prime, but the sound quality and content is terrible now. For me, Pandora is a much better alternative.
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Bigds2012TT said:
XM/Sirius has undoubtedly the worst customer service around. Foreign, hard to understand, typical go down the customer service "how to" hand book for helping you out. Threaten to leave and they will give you 3 months free. You can keep that up a while and get a good 6 months of free service maybe more if you really wanna deal with them. Supposed to be commercial free but the stations I listen to are swamped with them.
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Chris's FX4 said:
Definitely check to make sure you didn't give them a credit card number. They will auto renew you without telling you and the rate will be high.

Best way we've found to get it for cheap. Threaten to cancel, and if they don't come down low then actually cancel. You'll get a call from them in like a couple weeks saying we can give you a year for like $50 or something. Then you just make sure to cancel again before they renew you. That's how it's gone down the past couple years with my moms car.
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That.

Unfortunately, when you finally do want to cancel...for reals....the process is agonizing. And even afterward, they will hound you with junk mail and email spam. If you enjoy the programming, great.... I gave up on 'em very shortly after the merger, and haven't missed a moment of, ahem, programming. At that, even after moving to another city, I get at least two pieces of junk mail from them each month.
 
The best is when you do cancel they send you to collections for your last bill before you even have time to pay it!

Hopefully in a few years it goes free and paid for by commercials. That's the only way they will survive.
 
Neither Sirius nor the dealership I bought the car from got my creditcard so that's a plus. When I bought the car I flew out there one way and when I got there the bank hadn't cleared my check so the dealership tried to run me through their finance group. I want having that so instead I told them I would wait until the next morning and told them for a $30k cash purchase they could either let me sleep inside the 2012 M6 out front or rent me a hotel for the night.

I could watch the girls work the street from the window of the Day's Innt hat nite but it wasn't on my dime.

:-p

Lucky Joe,
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best bet IMO is to get the prepaid xm/sirius cards. saw them @ best buy $25/$50 last yr. the $25 at the time was good for 6mo.

that way once the allotted subscription runs out, theres no issue with canceling and nothing that ties you to them financially.
 
arjo.reich said:
I bought my car, used from a California BMW dealership they only wanted to give me a three month trial and I thought I talked the sales into giving me six month trial instead. However, that will have been a year ago at the end of April and it's still going strong.

I'll find out for sure by the end of next month but I'm starting to wonder if he either signed me up for a whole year or if being so far from the activation region that it can't disconnect me... either way, I'm grateful for the freebie, lol.

Lucky Joe,
Wannabe Detailer

Sent from my HTC DNA
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I bought my used Navigator a while back (2 years this July) and it had sattelite radio. I too thought it might be a free trial, but nope. Still going. I'm thinking that the previous owner has a multi-subscription that he just renews and doesn't realize it's still going on his old ride he no longer owns. :D
 
I bought a vehicle also last February and it has XM radio also. Thought they threw it in even though i bought it used so I didnt think nothing of it. Ran a more through vehicle report on it after i purchased and found out it was used as a company vehicle way over in California. My thinking is whatever company used to have it never cancelled the subscription! Woo hoo free radio i love it!
 
yakky said:
Are you sure you never game them a credit card? XM/Sirius are notorious for their shady business practices. I used to be a fan back in their prime, but the sound quality and content is terrible now.
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Don't get me started! Not only do they have commercials now, but they do the bait and switch, where they send you a letter telling you your subscription is coming due in 2 months and they will be charging you X amount, then when it shows up on your bill it's higher, then you call and they tell you about the little asterisk on the letter that says "you will be billed this amount or the rate that is in effect at the time of your renewal". Then there was the time that I decided not to renew, and they kept calling me up and bugging me to renew, so finally I relented, and they made me pay for the 2.5 months when I was disconnected or they said they would have to treat it as a new account and charge me an activation fee.
 
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