XM subscription renewal time again...any discount codes?

"Tell 'em about the discount Harry!"

"harry!"

I called in last week and said I want the $77 for 12 month deal and they gave it to me.

Try 'em again in a day or two. Last year I didn't get the deal until the 2nd attempt.

Just tell rep you want to cancel, worked for me for last 3 years - 77/y deal. 12... per month - please .

I just made my yearly call tonight. Had to threaten two CSRs with cancellation before the 2nd one gave me the 77 per year deal. Going on my third year at this rate.

My $77/year deal is ending next month. I guess I'll be pushing for $77 or cancelling my account. I just don't feel that it is worth $12/month.

If you go multi year it's only $9.95 a month[2 years or more]btw.

$77/year? How much for the additional receivers?

Will be trying also

I got in on the $77 dollar a year deal for the first year

Will try again in December.

I just got another year for $77.

I called and said that my current plan of $77 per year is going to expire next month and is set to autorenew for $12.95 per month and that I would like to cancel because that is too expensive. The lady asked if $77 for another year would be acceptable and I said yes. Too easy. She said that she can't set up the account to renew next year at this rate and for me to call back then and see what they can do for me. I wish Comcast and AT&T would bend over like that for me as well.

I didn't get my "special" renewal rate until I asked to cancel. Then they transferred me to somebody who gave me the rate. You gotta threaten to cancel.

Good luck to ya!

I also just got the $77 rate, but I was ready to cancel if I did not get it. Telling the phone rep you want to cancel your service and sounding like you mean it gets you transfered to a "retention specialist". He/she will want to listen to the sob story (make it sound authenic) of why you are leaving XM, then they will offer another year for $77 to get you to stay. She did mention calling back a couple of days before the end of the special pricing year and going through the process again or your rate will automatically re-adjust back to the full price.

You buncha cheap SOB's........here we have a company thats trying to stay afloat and you guys are to damn cheap to pay the 12.95 sub price

nice!

/\\ /\\
No Sh!t cheap ass SOB'S

HOO HOO TELL EM' FRED

FRUNKKKKKKISSSSS

As a consumer, it is my responsibility to get as good a financial deal from any merchant, XM radio or otherwise, that I can. If I have any information that I can pass on to my fellow consumers, to help them save money I am happy to do so, just as I am happy to receive information from my fellow consumers which will help me save money.

Any consumers concern for the financial health of XM or any other corporation must be trumped by their concern for their own financial health, because I can assure you that XM radio has absolutely no concern for my financial health.

"""Try 'em again in a day or two. Last year I didn't get the deal until the 2nd attempt"""

"""I just made my yearly call tonight. Had to threaten two CSRs with cancellation before the 2nd one gave me the 77 per year deal. Going on my third year at this rate"""

"""I didn't get my "special" renewal rate until I asked to cancel. Then they transferred me to somebody who gave me the rate. You gotta threaten to cancel"""




What your doing is dishonest!
have a nice life.

Sometimes you gotta whack 'em over the head with a 2X4 to get their attention. If you WILL pay $77 but not $147, then you're doing the legwork to give them the chance to not lose a customer. It costs them almost nothing to keep an existing customer (except for the calls which they make worse by making you try again and again), and anything they'll agree accept to puts them ahead of where they'd be if you leave; you're just negotiating from a very strong position.

Several years ago we had a cell phone with a provider we liked. Always worked, everyone who needed it knew our number, pretty much the price and service everyone else was offering when we signed, etc. Time came to renew the contract, and the renewal deal was much worse than the come-ons from other providers. Called a customer rep, told them we wanted to stay and asked if they could match, or at least approach, the better deals we were offered. Nope. We'd drop. Sorry. We let the contract expire and moved to another provider at a better monthly rate, with a much better deal on LD and roaming, but new phone, new number, and voice mail has never worked as well as before. A couple weeks later, the old cell company called asking what they could do to keep us as a customer. We related our experience and told them to call back two weeks earlier. Looking back, we should have hung up on the first and tried a different customer rep. Nothing dishonest there. It would have worked out better for both of us if we tried again and gotten a more compliant CR, but why should we have to do that?

Our daughter bought a car with an XM radio and activated the 3-month free trial during the summer, and liked it. After she got back to school and only occasionally used the car, the trial period ended. She intended to let it lapse and reactivate it when she was going to be driving a lot, probably in the spring. It just wasn't worth $12.95 to her while classes were on. XM called and she told them her plans. They offered her a much better ($5.95/mo??) rate, so she took it. Not dishonest at all, and they kept a subscriber.

Chuck said it. Their financial health is their concern, not ours. They certainly don't care about our financial health. If you feel really strongly about it, send them a donation. Maybe they'll return the favor if you hit hard times.

I have to agree with mercury. If you are falsely threating to leave even though you want to keep it that's dishonest. That's basically the same as insurance fraud that way I see it. If they call YOU with a good deal, then great... that'd a whole different story I agree.

Just pay for 3 years and get your discount the honest way, no? I've paid $9.99/mo. since 2003 with no funny business.

There is absolutely nothing dishonest in bargaining to get the best deal that you can for yourself. It's called negiotiating. Private individuals, businesses and governments do it all the time.

Insurance fraud generally consists of faking an injury to person or property in order to gain payment from the insurance company.

I've not gained payment from XM. To the contrary, I, and my fellow consumers are paying them. No fraud is involved in getting the best deal possible....just some good hard bargaining.

What's cool is that no company has ever lied to me, embellished, promised and undelivered or otherwise misled me into buying their product.

So I would never do the same to them.

(if it was a money-losing deal for them to offer $77/yr., then they are idiots that deserve to fail in business. If it's a minimal-profit deal that they willingly accept, what's the issue?)

PS: Thanks for the info!

I recently purchased a car with an xm radio that thru the dealer got a 3 month free trial. I got a card from them about activating service beyond the three months. I called them and asked about the $77 rate for 12 months. They said they couldn't give to me because I received 3 free months from car dealer. I even spoke with a supervisor. He said the only way I could get the rate was with a valid promotion code. Does anyone have a currently valid promo code that can be used to get the better rate?

try,

ou812


Happy Holidays.

If they won't give it you for $77 just let it lapse. In about a month they will mail you a card offering it to you for $77. They want your business.

I have got four units and will be paying $34.00 per month. I am definitely eager to get more info on this $77.00 per year deal.

Is this for a single receiver or multiple? I love XM but it is getting very expensive for our multi-receiver family...