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Sharing my experience with you all. Just called sirius to switch my subscription to a different car. They wanted to charge me a $15 swap fee. I asked to please get a supervisor to waive this fee as I've never had to pay to swap before. I was on hold 10 seconds, they agreed to waive the fee. It never hurts to ask!!

tex2670

I did this last September; they didn't even try to charge me a fee.

mmarshall

Tell them you are Sirius (and not kidding) in your request, and they will usually listen to you.

LexBob2

Same here. I did this twice in the past year on two different cars and a fee wasn't mentioned. Maybe with the OP they were fishing to see if they'd agree to the fee.

bitkahuna

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I am on my last sirius subscription. I hate all the commercials, and the music audio quality is garbage.

mmarshall

^^^^ What are you listening to on Sirius? The stations that I listen to (mostly news, NPR, religious, or music) are all commercial-free.

bitkahuna

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News stations other than NPR are FILLED with commercials. Even NPR has loads of "brought to you by" and "supported by" etc., that often go on and on.

as i said, i don't care for music on sirius because the audio quality of foul.

so i'm done at the end of this subscription. For news, i can stream npr one from my phone or just say "hey google, listen to the news" and get summaries and stories from soures *I* choose.

user 5976864

That’s a new one I hadn’t heard of. I’m thinking that the days of talking them down to super cheap renewals could be coming to an end if they’re doing this now.

mbarron37

My subscription expired last Tuesday and I did not renew, but I had to call them to tell them not to charge my card (auto-renew). They tried several times to keep me by lowering their price, but nope.

The issue I had was signal cutting out more often than I would like. I am going to move to one of the streaming services (Amazon, Tidal). I think the high quality option for Tidal is $20 per month, which is more than I really want to pay. For now, just listening to music that is on my iPhone.

ShrinkDoc

For those of you dropping Sirius, do you lose your Navi when the signal is gone? I've heard some people (other say no issues with navi) say that w/o sat radio, navi, weather and other functions are gone.

tex2670

News and sports have commercials. Particularly CNN, MSNBC and anything that simulcasts at TV broadcast has to have commercial breaks to match up with the TV broadcast.

mbarron37

I use Waze or Google maps, so no help.

tex2670

If you subscribe to Sirius/XM traffic, you would lose the traffic data. But you shouldn't be losing nav capabilities--that's not subscription based.

Toys4RJill

I always thought the stations on Sirius were commercial-free. But looks like it is just the music stations. that is too bad. Always though the attraction to this service was that there were no commercials for the monthly fee.

UDel

They will go out of business if they don't give customers the cheap rates/renewals. As soon as I have to pay the regular price I am dropping the service, I think a large chunk of their users will do the same thing. It costs them nothing to give me the service so they will only be losing money if they force me to drop them with higher rates.

Almost every time I get in my car my sirius radio has to "update channels or service" for a minute or two, which I think is just a annoying test to make sure I am a customer before they allow me to listen to anything(why is modern technology making things more annoying and worse in many cases). That, and the poor quality, signal sometimes going out and a regular radio signal taking over, constantly having to re up every six months, them taking away free internet streaming, and I only really listen to a couple stations means I end it once I have to pay more. I would miss Howard Stern(though he has totally changed/sold out, way too one sided political), and a few other stations I like.