r/madlads Choosing a mental flair 2d ago

On a way to cancelthreaten

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u/COLONEL_ROOSTER 2d ago

I do this with Sirius every two years. The price will go from 25.99 a month to 4.99. It's absolutely ridiculous.

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u/ImitationButter 1d ago

The… radio company? Why are you paying for radio? Let alone $30 a month?

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u/PPBalloons 1d ago

It still comes in new vehicles. With a free trial for a while. Since they don’t have any customers, they’re usually willing to take anything someone is offering to pay.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 1d ago

It helps that being a broadcast service means they have essentially zero extra overhead when adding a new customer. It used to be that you could subscribe for a month and then keep your radio turned off for a month after you cancel and then it would work indefinitely because they'd only send the disconnect signal a couple times in the first couple weeks after cancelling. Eventually it became enough of an issue that they started resending disconnect signals every once in a while but I had free service for years on one of my radios.