Sirius XM Rolls Out Huge Deals For Fathers Day
Now is the time and Sirius XM is the perfect gift so, do yourself a favor and put a smile on the old mans face this year.
Not a big fan of Dad? Lucky for you, Sirius XM doesn’t judge, there is nothing about this promotion that says you can’t go ahead and just treat yourself to a new piece of hardware anyway.
All orders over $50, for today only, will include FREE shipping that is guaranteed to get your gift there on time.
- Save $30 on a Starmate 5 with car kit
- Save $55 on a Sportster 5 with car kit
- Save $100 on a Stiletto2 radio with car or home kit
- Save $149 on an Xmp3 radio with home and car kit
- Save $90 on the MiRGE Interoperable Radio with car kit
So question-
What are the pros cons of getting a stiletto 2 that costs about 300 vs getting an i phone 32 gig that will hopefully get sirius some day for about the same price.
Helpful thoughts?
theres no definite list of content that will be available to the iphone stream.
Also the iphone gets (a higher quality) signal from cell towers, while stiletto gets (lower quality) signal from satellites. Depending on cell/satellite coverage, you might find one works better for you.
I-phone will only get internet offerings, while Stilletto will get full Sirius service plus best of XM, unless you go on Wifi connection (internet offerings only)
Just try using a Stiletto II indoors. It’s worthless.
It’s poor at best even when it’s used outside.
Without Wi-Fi, the Stiletto is a steaming pile technological dung.
BTW, if you buy a Stiletto now, in addition to paying to use the SatRad function, you must now pay the additional fee for internet just to use the Wi-Fi functionality.
Needless to say, I won’t be buying another one.
Dead elvis
I have an XMP3 that I got about a month ago! I drive rural south texas…reception with car kit is real good! Without…not good at all! Skips…loses sat signal! Take it for what its worth! Price for XMP3 is real good now!
Thanks Charles for help getting the word out. Great deals they are offering. You probably just let more people know than SiriusXM did on its own. LOL LOL
Right on Relmor!!
vaporgold
Thank you-
I have no idea of reception for the stiletto I live on the gulf coast in the deep south -I figure once I open it- I own it
I will call the local best buy-since
I held on the phone with sirius for 12 min to ask them listening to fuzzy static music and never got an answer – go figure
Charles
Good information! However, with your fetish for Pandora…makes one wonder if your article is kinda like…what a great deal it is…or is it!
It’s really nice that they are offering the radios at terrific prices – it will entice more people to make the jump over to satellite. Now, applying the same theory, why don’t you – yes YOU, as in Sirius/XM management – run occassional killer deals on the SUBSCRIPTIONS! It doesn’t have to be on Fathers Day – it could be on… Oh… perhaps something like “Let’s stop treating the future and current subscribers like pieces of shit… day.” Combine both the radio deals with the subscription deals, and offer the LIFETIME subscription as an option for those who realize, like I did, that they are addicted. Who wouldn’t choose an up front one time payment over the alternative – as long as they have the money available. In three years or less, you are listening for free.
Come on Sirius/XM, get those brain cells moving – you can do it. It won’t hurt, and if people start responding after you treat them with respect AND stop trying to rip them off like sleazy used car salesmen, you can pat yourselves on the back for being such good samaritans.
The problem with subscription numbers has to do with one thing – the management of this company DOES NOT CARE about the happiness and wellbeing of their own subscribers, and has ALWAYS maintained a RUTHLESS and CONTEMPTUOUS attitude towards them. As long as this attitude persists, this company will ALWAYS have problems.
If they were to actually, sincerely EMBRACE the subscribers, it would be a game changer. They give nothing, so they get nothing in return. I sometimes wonder if there is anyboby associated with Sirius/XM that isn’t a heartless, greedy, self-serving whore? So far, I fail to see any evidence to the contrary!
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The problem with subscription numbers has to do with one thing – the management of this company DOES NOT CARE about the happiness and well being of their own subscribers, and has ALWAYS maintained a RUTHLESS and CONTEMPTUOUS attitude towards them. As long as this attitude persists, this company will ALWAYS have problems.[/quote]
Testify Brother!
Not once, in all the meetings and public statements has Sirius-XM ever once addressed its extremely poor treatment of its own customer base.
Sirius-XM has gotten as far as it has in spite of its management, not because of it.
Sirius-XM management should take a good look at how TSS Radio handles its customers.
They could learn quite a bit.
Charles, Thank you for the info. But already heard about it. I was at a small restaurant having dinner in downtown Manhattan with my wife and some sharply dressed white haired gentleman with a monogrammed trench coat sitting a couple booths down kept looking at me while I was eating and finally went “psst… psst” with a small waving motion to come over to him. When I went over he opened his trench coat and there they were, all the Fathers Day promotions from Sirius Xm! I gotta little carried away and said in a loud voice “Well it’s about time !”, he then abruptly closed his coat got up and scurried out of the joint mumbling to himself “Boy that guys got a big mouth”. I don’t understand why he got so upset, they looked like good deals? Bizarre to say the least! I didn’t catch his name but on the way out I got a closer look at the monogram it was M K?
This storey may be corny, but if it really did happen it wouldn’t surprise me.
I have a Stiletto 100 model that I purchase a couple of years ago. I love it, I take it jogging with me in the mornings here in holmdel New Jersey. Reception is great, everywhere and I have never ever had a problem with reception anywhere, including on a cruise ship leaving New York and going up to Canada. Last Summer I took it on a cruise and had reception nearly all the way to Puerto Rico from New York. One time last May I rented a Yukon and drove from Reno to Mamoth Mountain California. No XM in the truck. Opened the moonroof, put my headphones on and listened to Bubba while driving down 295South. This is simply the best product ever and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
In addition the Wifi function is great. I get the full set of programing from Sirius and I don’t have to pay extra for it. I pay for my regular content and thats it. It has every function that one could ask for, including being able to build and edit your own music library, plus Howard and Bubba. Its disgraceful that Sirius never promoted this product. I gave this gift of Sirius to everyone on my list at Christmas. no one has a complaint.
Sorry, but I simply don’t believe your statements of praise for the Stiletto 100.
The Stiletto 100 is a bigger steaming pile of technological dung than the Stiletto 2.
It’s reception is lousy and any NEW subscribers MUST pay an extra $3.00 per month to use the poor Wi-Fi functionality to get the internet stream.
Sirius didn’t promote it because they nearly had a class action lawsuit because of the failure of the product to work as advertised.
There are very few places in the US where a Stiletto is a useful portable device.
Poor repeater distribution and a poorly designed device equals thousands of very ticked off customers.
The Stiletto 2 was supposed to be a huge improvement but after having gone through 2 units in 2 years, I can say the hardware is poorly designed and has a very short working life.
Forget about using a Stiletto as an MP3 player.
Best Buy offers their own brand that works far better.
What a farce this father’s day promotion. $7.99 per month for six months but there is a catch!!! $29.oo Activation fee!!!! whoa, i am already a subscriber with another xm radio…..
This is a rip off….shame on you sirius!!!!
keep on nickle and dimeing us to death till you run out of customers and sit back and wonder why??????