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Red Marley

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I've been an XM user pretty much from the beginning. I only use it when I'm traveling; I don't travel much but it's nice to have when I do – but I'm choking on the subscription renewal price. I'd like to hear from users of Pandora and Spotify, specifically with regard to the way I listen. I don't want to organize playlists, I don't want to download, I don't want to have to keep choosing the next song: I want to listen as though I'm listening to a radio station with a DJ who knows what I like and keeps it coming, without me having to diddle with the radio or phone. On SiriusXM, I get exactly what I want from B.B. King's Blues channel 74; I'm just not sure I'm willing to pay $250/yr for the small amount of time I use it. Can I get what I want on Pandora or Spotify? Which is better (best music, least hassle).

Edited to add, yes, I'm a cheapskate
 
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To me they are all a shot in the dark. I use iheartradio over pandora and Spotify, but I do keep pandora mainly for comedy late at night to help me stay awake. I like and enjoy the comedy on pandora over iheart. But I select my artist, and it picks other artist it things are similar. Sometimes it's great Sometimes it's like WTF I picked country and it's playing a rap song.
 
I use Spotify.

Why?

Because my youngest daughter has it and put me on it.

I've created a bunch of lists of diverse music I can play from. When that list is done, it'll continue playing similar music.
 
Well, I called SiriusXM, said remove my credit card information and cancel my service. "Why?" they asked. "Not willing to pay what you are asking." They knocked my renewal down from around $285 they wanted to charge me for renewing two cars to about $85, and with credit for time remaining on my account, I pay $42 total for a year on both cars. They are hosing their long-term subscribers who don't call to cancel. Doesn't seem like a good business strategy, but I'll take it at the new price. I just wish you didn't have to spend 15 minutes on the phone trying to understand what the Indian (can we still say that?) customer service lady is saying.
 
It's a business strategy that has been floating around for decades. Cable companies, for example, are famous for it.

One of the most entertaining phone calls I ever overheard was my wife calling a cable company to cancel service. She wasn't canceling because of an increase in fees, she was cancelling because we had been putting up with poor cable/internet service for a while and not getting anything actually fixed about it. The last time a service technician came out to the house, he gave my wife some BS about how the cable was routed under the house. When I came home, that conversation went like this:

WIFE: The cable guy came out today to look at our problem.

ME: Did he finally fix it?

WIFE: No, I told him not to do anything until I talked to you first.

ME: What did he say was the problem?

WIFE: He said the problem was in the crawl space and that it was caused by the cable being wrapped around the chimney base.

When I got done laughing, I explained to my wife how the guy was full of sh*t because coaxial cable could care less about being looped around a pile of bricks. I had been in the crawl space to look at the cable and there was nothing damaged or unusual about it. She was P*SSED that the cable company tried blowing smoke up her *ss and the phone call she made was HILARIOUS! They tried all the usual "make a deal" moves and were doing anything BUT canceling service and all it did was make my wife MORE livid!

She finally told them if they didn't cancel service RIGHT NOW and send someone out THAT DAY to collect their sh*t, she was having me cut their cable and pull it out of the house and toss it and their cable/internet box out by the street and if they were quick enough, they could beat the trash pickup to it.

They actually had a service technician out within the hour!

🤣

All I gotta say, folks, is DO NOT P*SS THE RED HEADED WIFE-MONSTER OFF!
 
not much help, here.
i play the cancel game, too.
it works for XM everytime.

with cable, we finally cut the cord.
should have done it many years ago.
when fiber makes it out our way,
we will reconsider another wire.
 
I call XM every year right before my 2 renewals and get the cheapest price. It increases each time, but it is nowhere near their full asking price. You just have to be willing to call them.
 
papa_smurf said:
I have sirius in 2 vehicles. If you let it expire for a few days you can call back and get a special promo offer. You have to play the game...
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Yep. They’ll do $5 a month continually if you press it. Did that for years. Promo would end, I’d call to cancel and get it for 6 more months
 
I've been getting emails on both cars service offering $5/mo for 24 months. That's tempting, but I'm already paying for unlimited 5g and YouTube music premium. That's good enough for me, and it works everywhere.
 
If you’re already a Amazon Prime member they have a music service as well. We pay for the family plan so that more than one device can stream. You can also download directly to your device so you can listen with no service.
 
We have had all 3 at various times. We're now with Spotify and it's my favorite of all. Playlists, books, podcasts, and very little repetitive songs when on a channel. Plus the family version lets us put it on everyone's phones...much better in that respect from what we had on pandora.
 
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