Comments on: SIRIUS sucks

By: tom poon

tom poon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:43:06 +0000

I absolutley hated sirius. I got a year free in my Jeep wrangler, which actually for whatever reason turned into a year and a half free. First off, all the channels get repetitive, period. the hip hop channels constantly have foul language and lewd discussions, jsut tasteless, not to mention the fact that I dont need my 9 and 12 year old learing that its ok to use the word fuck and shit, and pussy and nigger. Its just tasteless. the trance stations are boring, the 80s station hardly plays 80s really good music just generic pop from that decade like a ha and mr mister. quite frankly, the only station id ever really listen to and even that got tiresome and boring was the reggae channel. i could care less about stern, and everything else was just stale.

That takes care of the content part, the hardware part, my signal would cut out constantly, under a bridge, under a tree, if a moth flew over the car, it even cut out on the open highway with nothign around for miles. ive pulled cds off sanding belts that play better than the sirius reception. I hated it and couldnt imagine hy anyone would pay for the priveledge to have such crap. you want to charge people fine, but at least nail the technology down pat, and get some reasonable content. My free subscription ran out today and actually im relieved, you couldnt pay me to have it.

By: Lori McLain

Lori McLain — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:11:40 +0000

After receiving a Sirius for Christmas 2007 and going online to subscribe, I purchased a “LIFE TIME” package for $400.00.
After three years I receive a notice that if I do not call within three days, I would not have service. I called and they do not claim to have had a Life Time package nor would they even try to make some kind of future plan. Simply, pay another 399.00 for the next three years or they will shut off the service. Too bad, I Quit.

By: dave c

dave c — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:24:27 +0000

currently listening to Bob & the Wailers Roots Rock & Raggae probably something i would have never put on an ipod or burned cd. good stuff though. plenty of other great stations. im usually listening to lithium, octane, 70′s. ipod? download music? create playlists? where do you find the time?

i just change stations. sirius kicks a$$$$$$$.

By: Skip E

Skip E — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:12:22 +0000

June 17 2009 I have Sirius external tuner in my old car. I just got a new car 2007 model that has XM tuner in it. I want to use the new car’s in dash unit. Sirius says I have add XM to use the in dash unit . They say we need to cancel Sirius and get XM to use tuner in the new car. They want to charge me A $75 CANCELLATION FEE TO CANCEL THE SERVICE EVEN THOUGH I MOVING TO THE SAME FREAKING COMPANY!!!!!!!!! They haave merged almost a year are a month away. I bitched and got them to waive the fee. Don’t take it lying down.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:09:09 +0000

Want to quit Sirius but can’t get a human being? Here’s the magic number that gets you straight to the cancellation people:

>>>> 1-866-325-2846 <<<<<<

I tried for 8 months to cancel this service and couldn’t even get the voice system to recognize my voice to get that deep into the system. After a 15 minute tirade on this number – made available only because I had to cancel the credit card it was being billed to! – she had the gall to tell me I still owed $14. I told her I sure as anything wasn’t giving her a new card number. She said she could send an invoice! When pigs fly over frozen hell! She finally issued a cancellation number and waived the charge. Then some dolt called a few hours later to “verify” my information on a “recorded call.” I told him I wasn’t a customer, I wasn’t verifying anything, and launched into a tirade that included some definite table pounding to get my point across – no “magic discount” was going to work on me. Get lost.

This service is terrible. It is worse than AOL was, and they are going to get their tails sued off by the state attornies general before they get through with it and pull the plug on the satellite. Get out while you still can. Call the number above, it will save you a LOT of pain. Don’t verify anything with them if they call back. This boob finally agreed to put me on their do not call list because I threatened to turn in a complaint with the Arizona attorney general’s office and the FTC if I got one scrap of paper, one bill, or one more phone call from them. Stand up for your rights. Don’t be intimidated by this has-been company.

By: Gary Thison

Gary Thison — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:04:55 +0000

Please read my article about Sirius. They made awful and expensive changes to the Sirius Satellite Radio channel line-up and there are some great, free alternatives for online and mobile music, news and talk.

By: Howie Adao

Howie Adao — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:03:09 +0000

A couple of years ago I bought a lifetime subscription to Serius for my new car. For months afterwards I got mail warning me that I might have a break in my service unless I paid to continue it. I finally called Serius and they said it was a mistake and it would stop. It did. Now Serius and XM are one company. So when I traded in my car for one that had XM I asked the dealership if I could switch services. They didn’t know or so they said. When I called Serius they said I couldn’t switch yet and probably would be able to in the future. (Read maybe) I called a second time and was told I could buy a converter from another company and I could have a car stereo shop install it. About half the cost of a new lifetime subscription by the way. So I agree Sirius sucks.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:20:45 +0000

II just canceled my Sirius service. I had to sit on hold for 30 minutes in order to complete the cancellation. The customer service person said that people are waiting in line to cancel their service, which is why I had to wait so long. To add salt to the wounds, the customer service people were rude and impatient.

I tried to cancel two months ago, but I hung up after waiting 20 minutes. I sent them an service requiest through their website asking them to cancel my account. They ignored the first phone call and the service request, and they refused to refund me for the two months of service that I didn’t use after I asked them to cancel my account.

By: Scott Tobias

Scott Tobias — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:12:53 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. what Sirius doesn’t get is that its not about the “Stars”. Its about the music. I bought Sirius for the wide variety of music it offered compared to conventional radio. It just lost “disorder”, which I loved, but now I’ve got Wolfman Jack to talk over the intros to the songs.

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