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XM Warning
After my 3 month trial subscription ended in April, I did not renew. In July while on a road trip I called and activated for $77 for one year. That year expired July 14. With noisy tires and bad hearing I have not used the radio. Now I see a charge on my credit card for $39.71 from XM for a quarter.
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
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After my 3 month trial subscription ended in April, I did not renew. In July while on a road trip I called and activated for $77 for one year. That year expired July 14. With noisy tires and bad hearing I have not used the radio. Now I see a charge on my credit card for $39.71 from XM for a quarter.
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
I went thru this also. Big pain to try and cancel. Best advice is to put XM subscription on a seperate Credit Card and cancel the card if you don't want XM any more.
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From: CHOCOWINITY NC
After my 3 month trial subscription ended in April, I did not renew. In July while on a road trip I called and activated for $77 for one year. That year expired July 14. With noisy tires and bad hearing I have not used the radio. Now I see a charge on my credit card for $39.71 from XM for a quarter.
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
Get a hard copy bill and pay by check
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From: Rushsylvania Ohio
As soon as XM or Sirius has your credit card number, renewel becomes automatic with zero warning to you. I refused to give my credit card number to XM during the trial activation and the lady on the phone was very ticked off. Too bad for her. I have Sirius in my truck and now in the Vette and renewel is automatic. I don't like that it works that way, but since I will renew anyway, it is not a big problem.
Don't give XM or Sirius a credit card number if you do not want automatic renewels!
Don't give XM or Sirius a credit card number if you do not want automatic renewels!
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From: Prescott AZ
St. Jude Donor '04
After my 3 month trial subscription ended in April, I did not renew. In July while on a road trip I called and activated for $77 for one year. That year expired July 14. With noisy tires and bad hearing I have not used the radio. Now I see a charge on my credit card for $39.71 from XM for a quarter.
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
Be careful. If you think you are verbally subscribing for one year at a discount price, guess again. It is a lifetime subscription with no warning.
Jerry
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As soon as XM or Sirius has your credit card number, renewel becomes automatic with zero warning to you. I refused to give my credit card number to XM during the trial activation and the lady on the phone was very ticked off. Too bad for her. I have Sirius in my truck and now in the Vette and renewel is automatic. I don't like that it works that way, but since I will renew anyway, it is not a big problem.
Don't give XM or Sirius a credit card number if you do not want automatic renewels!
Don't give XM or Sirius a credit card number if you do not want automatic renewels!
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As soon as XM or Sirius has your credit card number, renewel becomes automatic with zero warning to you. I refused to give my credit card number to XM during the trial activation and the lady on the phone was very ticked off. Too bad for her. I have Sirius in my truck and now in the Vette and renewel is automatic. I don't like that it works that way, but since I will renew anyway, it is not a big problem.
Don't give XM or Sirius a credit card number if you do not want automatic renewels!
Don't give XM or Sirius a credit card number if you do not want automatic renewels!
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St. Jude Donor '08
Very simple. Call your credit card company and tell them do not pay XM for their service now and in the future. If they decline tell them you will close the account. They will do what you tell them. 
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St. Jude Donor '06
Either use a temporary credit card number (if your bank offers this service) or ask for a paper bill instead of credit card billing. The paper bill will often, but not always, cost an additional $2.
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From: Houston, TX
Nobody wants to listen to all the horror stories of XM's ****-poor service. I had three vehicles on XM for a while and now have none due to their constant billing problems and unbelievable amount of time I spend on the phone over the course of my dealings with them trying to fix problems.
I highly recommend that people NOT do business with them until upper management gets the message that their service ranks among the worst in modern history.
If you think I'm ranting about isolated problems, do a search and see how many problems are reported just on this forum.
I highly recommend that people NOT do business with them until upper management gets the message that their service ranks among the worst in modern history.
If you think I'm ranting about isolated problems, do a search and see how many problems are reported just on this forum.
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From: Laurel Maryland
St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
First you must be proactive with them, when your 11 month anniversary comes up, call them and get your best deal.
Second, no credit card. Back in May they billed me for exactly 77 dollars even. --
eddie
Second, no credit card. Back in May they billed me for exactly 77 dollars even. --
eddie