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Jack Straw

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Dec 22, 2008
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I called to Sirius radio to cancel my subscription and they offered to lower it to $86 and I got them down to $75.
It was originally going to be $176. So if you have Sirius you may want to call them.
 
Yup, just like the cable companies.....they will deal with you instead of losing a customer. I have been paying them $7/month for years now instead of the $18 or whatever it is
 
lol....when i called to cancel my x-m radio....the nice indian lady
told me that if i kept it , it would only cost me 3 dollars a month !
 
Dam it, maybe I could have gotten them to pay me to keep it!
 
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When my free 6 month trial ends in our new car I'll see what XM has to say, but recently I called DirecTV(been a customer for 8+ yrs) to state I'm considering a switch to Dish. Lady abruptly asked what date I wanted to terminate...no negotiations, nothing.
 
Let it expire, then wait. They offered me $25. for 6 months and no other fees.
 
When my free 6 month trial ends in our new car I'll see what XM has to say, but recently I called DirecTV(been a customer for 8+ yrs) to state I'm considering a switch to Dish. Lady abruptly asked what date I wanted to terminate...no negotiations, nothing.

Interesting . . . I just called the other day since the satellite dish was taken down to put on the roof (a project still in the works) . . . told them that I was considering Dish TV since the dish was down anyways . . . initial offer was just to offer a few months of HBO/Cinemax and a bit off if I went to auto-pay . . . told them I'm old fashioned and don't use auto pay on anything and don't really care for HBO and Cinemax . . . at that point I said I would regrettably cancel . . .

Tossed to another person who offered a $20 credit which I could use towards getting HighDef and the local channels . . . which translates into a net savings of $7 . . . not a lot . . . and honestly I think I could have bargained a bit longer for either a little better price or at least some free HBO . . . but no contract, no auto-pay and no service charge . . . fair enough for me in my mind.

Also a long time user . . . 8 years under a plan that is no longer even offered.
 
Very good thread . . . never thought about trying to get a better deal with my wife's XM subscription . . . may have to try this.
 
These days I think I'd much rather have a silly, fun radio than one that's sirius.
 
I used to subscribe to sirius and haven't for a while....I get emails all the time 6 months for 25 dollars no activation fee. I have been really thin king about doing it. Once you get in then just threaten to cancel after 6 months unless they can meet same price.
 
Thanks for this, just knocked half off my renewal!
Now if I can get Frontier to give me decent DSL speed, consistently......
 
I've never had any luck getting a discount. I let it expire once and still nothing.
Maybe I'm not forceful enough.
 
I just loathe dealing with charter (cable). Same thing, just a huge amount of customer dissatisfaction. The toll free numbers give me one set of prices, and then the local office always "corrects" the prices by raising them a bit and telling me that the people on the toll free were wrong.

No wonder they were voted the 3rd most hated company in America.
 
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