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am1958 wrote:

jfkmk wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
reading all these posts about jumping thru hoops every 6 months makes me appreciate my auto pay ala carte plan. :)
bumpy

Not sure what’s so hard about spending less than 5 minutes on the phone every 6 months.

I agree with you. Very little effort involved.

Not sure about what is so difficult about hitting the "scan" button on the radio and if that doesn't work either plugging in a thumb drive or talking to the other people in the vehicle...

Scan button = endless commercials, overplayed popular songs
Cost of subscription is $5 per month. Downloading songs on my phone are $1 each. Who the world uses a thumb drive in their car anymore?? I've never even loaded a CD in the slot of my new truck. If we're using the ideal of antiquated technology as the basis of our discussion, I could probably still find some cassette tapes.
Talk to other people? Most of my drive time is by myself, and I've already solved all the world's problems between me and myself.

I'm a self-described anti-noise guy. I enjoy some music and some talk radio and some news radio, but the vast majority of my driving is in silence. For those times when I want to listen to something, I find that $5 per month is peanuts in a $60K truck.

Big Katuna wrote:

Bionic Man wrote:
Prepay for 5 months at a time. They have a 5 months for $25 promo. Then put it on your calendar to renew and get the same deal in 4 months and 3 weeks.

BINGO

Better yet let wait 4 months and 3 weeks then log on and delete your payment info....let it expire......They'll go apeshit that your dropping the service ,and immediatly hound you to death with an email and snailmail barrage of epic proportions, way worse than Camping World and Good Sam. Then call them and you'll most likely get a better deal than the 5 month promo.

WTP-GC wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
reading all these posts about jumping thru hoops every 6 months makes me appreciate my auto pay ala carte plan. :)
bumpy

Not sure what’s so hard about spending less than 5 minutes on the phone every 6 months.

I am NOT a tight wad BUT if I can save a LOT of $$$ on the same service or product and it only costs me a few minutes of my time I am all over it! I am the guy that buys GY for his RV's and Boat trailer and Michelin's for autos.

Cummins12V98 wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
reading all these posts about jumping thru hoops every 6 months makes me appreciate my auto pay ala carte plan. :)
bumpy

Not sure what’s so hard about spending less than 5 minutes on the phone every 6 months.

I am NOT a tight wad BUT if I can save a LOT of $$$ on the same service or product and it only costs me a few minutes of my time I am all over it! I am the guy that buys GY for his RV's and Boat trailer and Michelin's for autos.

5 minutes??? some of the previous posts show more hoops to jump thru than that. and I think my auto pay is about $5.95 a month. no fuss, no muss, no 15 minutes on the phone, don't have to mark my calendar and jump thru hoops. I don't consider my additional cost to be "a LOT of $$$.
bumpy

Bionic Man wrote:
Prepay for 5 months at a time. They have a 5 months for $25 promo. Then put it on your calendar to renew and get the same deal in 4 months and 3 weeks.

Same here , I was on to them right off. I renew every five or six months on the promo, sometimes its the threat of cancelation to get it , this last time it was pretty simple ,asked for it ,and got it, but that is not always the case. We will see next time what it takes it varies :)

Bumproad

I am on the 5 month thing for $30 or so, I would like to go your $5.95 route, can you tell me where or how you started this plan, appreciate any info you can give, I am about 2 weeks out for my trucks plan and 3 weeks before my wife new free plan expires.

Keith

One every 6 mo I call. I ask can you help me with this yes or no. If not I want to talk to your manager. Usually they help no problem, especially when I say simply look at my track record.

I do the same with Dish. These Companies are in decline with subscribers so they are more than happy to play "Let's Make a Deal".

They ticked me off with the Beatles channel. It was on for a while for free, but on the test channel. All the on-air personalities were swearing that it was staying around and it did. But they started charging for it ($30 I think) and at that point they lost me and my 3 radios. Any company that you have to scam to get a good price isn't getting my money.

In the meantime, I Heart Radio is free.

I had Sirius "commercial free" radio in a Jeep many years ago (the previous owner of the vehicle forgot to cancel it).
When they finally woke up and cancelled it, I allowed it to go away. Their self-promoting "commercials" were a definite turn-off! Oh, sure, they didn't have commercials for Walmart or Sticky Joe's Used Cars, but they sure had plenty of "announcements" for Sirius Channels.
The 6-disc CD player worked just fine for the few areas where there was poor radio signals.
If they ever have channels which are truly "commercial free", I might be interested.

Keithk3628 wrote:
Bumproad

I am on the 5 month thing for $30 or so, I would like to go your $5.95 route, can you tell me where or how you started this plan, appreciate any info you can give, I am about 2 weeks out for my trucks plan and 3 weeks before my wife new free plan expires.

Keith

first you need a receiver capable of using the ala carte service. for the one basic fee (auto pay) you get 50 stations. I have 2 or 3 additional fee stations at 25 cents a month. I have a portable sirius radio with three docking stations, two in vehicles and one in the house.
but "ala carte" service is the key requirement. that was mandated by the govt to allow the merger. my vehicle receivers get plugged into the aux input on the radio.
bumpy