For some reason I'm getting all channels including sports channels in my van free not that I'm complain just curious if this has happened to anyone else? Been getting it free since Christmas and not as a gift
Sometimes the signal to deactivate a device doesn't actually turn the device off. We had a radio that we deactivated, but it didn't get turned off. Two phone calls and two emails to SiriusXM still didnt fix it. So we had a radio working for 5 years before it was finally turned off. Enjoy it while you have it.
I did contact them initially because I thought they might try and bill me for the extra time. But after I called twice and sent them two separate emails (which I still have copies of and their automatic replies 'thank you for contacting SiriusXM'), I stopped notifying them and continued to use it.
Little did I know it would remain working for almost 5 years (4 years 10 months). They deactivated the device right after a 'freebie' period. I think they send out a signal after those free periods to deactivate the devices that aren't supposed to be active.
SiriusXM doesn't waste much signal time on activating/deactivating devices, and they have no way of verifying if a device receives the signal. They are receivers only. SXM simply sends the deactivation signal several times spread out over a few days and then stops sending it. They resend the signal every so often after that, but they don't put a very high priority on it after the first few days. If you hardly ever use a device, it's completely possible to miss the signal for years.
Probably more like people listening to a free trial and don't even know it. It's a for profit company that is doing very well so they do care. I learned that in Business 101.
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