I’ve been a paying subscriber for about four years – and when my wife leased her current car, it came with an XM radio so we piggy-backed her subscription onto my account.
There are a few reasons why I'm feeling disenchanted.
Sittin' at the Dock of XM...
First, I'm not using it as much as I used to because my radio is a portable one and I have a "dock" for my car (which doesn’t seem to be working too well anymore) and a second "dock" for my home office (which has also been kind of flakey lately). I am currently "dock"-challenged.
Aside from apparently only having a limited life span, I'm sick of having to re-dock my radio every time I want to use it somewhere. Unfortunately, I spent hundreds of dollars on the radio when it first came out on the market so it's not that easy to just discard. What I really wish I could do is buy a separate radio for my car. I'd be willing to do that. Unfortunately, XM wants to charge me "by-the-radio" which means I'd have to activate a third subscription.
I really resent the fact that both services charge "by-the-radio" and not "by-the-user" and although I didn't think much about it before, now it's irritating.
XM + SIRIUS = I Lose
Besides the physical moving of my radio, I don't trust the proposed merger. I've been in commercial Radio a long time. Every time a station I worked for was sold, the new owners always promised me they were buying the people, not the station – and then I was usually fired soon afterwards.
So much for buying the people.
