The Trick to get Sirius/XM for $5 per month

[DrMitoFit]

If you logon to your active Siruis/XM account and try to cancel your full-price subscription, it requires that you chat online with a rep. To stop you from cancelling, they will offer you a really good deal (I think it was one year at $5 per month for the deluxe channel package, or something like that). But then it reverts to full price after a year. After a year I decided to cancel because I am now retired and don't commute everyday like I used to. My music solution was to copy my PC's ripped CD collection onto a mini-sized USB thumb drive and plug it into the USB port inside the center slide covered storage area. I can voice control which album or artist to play. Only annoyance is that the slow infotainment system takes the better part of a minute to recognize the USB when I cold start the car. If I turn on the stereo too soon, it starts with AM radio or tries to connect to Sirius/XM (no subscription). You would think it would remember what I was playing last.

 

[NJRonbo]

If you logon to your active Siruis/XM account and try to cancel your full-price subscription, it requires that you chat online with a rep. To stop you from cancelling, they will offer you a really good deal (I think it was one year at $5 per month for the deluxe channel package, or something like that). But then it reverts to full price after a year. After a year I decided to cancel because I am now retired and don't commute everyday like I used to. My music solution was to copy my PC's ripped CD collection onto a mini-sized USB thumb drive and plug it into the USB port inside the center slide covered storage area. I can voice control which album or artist to play. Only annoyance is that the slow infotainment system takes the better part of a minute to recognize the USB when I cold start the car. If I turn on the stereo too soon, it starts with AM radio or tries to connect to Sirius/XM (no subscription). You would think it would remember what I was playing last.

It doesn't always work this way

I have been with SiriusXM for decades. Every year I go through the negotiation process of renewing my subscription.

You have to threaten to cancel. You talk to a rep, and you keep turning down their offers (which progressively get lower) until you think you are getting the best offer. It's a con game that is hard to believe SiriusXM puts people through -- and most don't know you can play this game and end up paying many times more each year for service.

Thing is, you never know what deal a rep will offer you. If you are getting $5 a month for their top-tier plan (which includes Howard Stern and app streaming), that's probably the best deal out there and one usually has to cancel their service and receive an offer through the mail weeks afterward. If you were offered that deal immediately, that's pretty damn good.

The best deal I have been able to negotiate is $85 for a full year of their top-tier plan with no royalty fees added. That comes out to a little over $7 a month.

Again, it's always a crap shoot what deal you will be offered. Just know that when your subscription is up, you should call and threaten to cancel, then play the game of turning down every offer they give you. You may end up getting your service cancelled for not taking their lowest offer, but you can call back later that day and accept that lowest offer.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: Put the renewal date on your calendar. If you miss it, they will automatically switch you to their most expensive plan.

 

[DrMitoFit]

It doesn't always work this way

I have been with SiriusXM for decades. Every year I go through the negotiation process of renewing my subscription.

You have to threaten to cancel. You talk to a rep, and you keep turning down their offers (which progressively get lower) until you think you are getting the best offer. It's a con game that is hard to believe SiriusXM puts people through -- and most don't know you can play this game and end up paying many times more each year for service.

Thing is, you never know what deal a rep will offer you. If you are getting $5 a month for their top-tier plan (which includes Howard Stern and app streaming), that's probably the best deal out there and one usually has to cancel their service and receive an offer through the mail weeks afterward. If you were offered that deal immediately, that's pretty damn good.

The best deal I have been able to negotiate is $85 for a full year of their top-tier plan with no royalty fees added. That comes out to a little over $7 a month.

Again, it's always a crap shoot what deal you will be offered. Just know that when your subscription is up, you should call and threaten to cancel, then play the game of turning down every offer they give you. You may end up getting your service cancelled for not taking their lowest offer, but you can call back later that day and accept that lowest offer.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: Put the renewal date on your calendar. If you miss it, they will automatically switch you to their most expensive plan.

It’s my wife’s pet peeve when businesses reward new customers with big discounts but make loyal long-term customers pay full price.

 

[NJRonbo]

It’s my wife’s pet peeve when businesses reward new customers with big discounts but make loyal long-term customers pay full price.

I hear yuh, but that's the way it works with every company these days.

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[DonL]

so is there a deal to be made? I only want the music

 

[NJRonbo]

so is there a deal to be made? I only want the music

If you simply take their advertised prices, you are paying 3x more than people who know about the negotiating that needs to be done.

I suspect SiriusXM still survives because most people don't know about the "game" that needs to be played when renewing.

You need to call, threaten to cancel, and watch the offers roll in

 

[Black Label]

They sold me a "lifetime" plan when I bought my 2008 Expedition. Around $400. I pay $75 to transfer when I buy a new vehicle. I got lucky. Doubt they offer that anymore.

 

[NJRonbo]

They sold me a "lifetime" plan when I bought my 2008 Expedition. Around $400. I pay $75 to transfer when I buy a new vehicle. I got lucky. Doubt they offer that anymore.

Unfortunately, they don't

Wish I had known better back then. There are quite a few people I run across on the Internet still enjoying that plan with the neglible transfer fee.

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[DonL]

I am on a free 3 month trail. Guess I will make an account and then see what happens. I can say that I have Peacock streaming and when I didn't renew a week late got a price for 1/3 the original without even asking