[BC] XM Appreciation Society

[Kevin Block]

Not to mention their low-bit audio now being passed of as "near CD quality"...

RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
>XM is another fraud! They first advertised it to be commercial-free.
>That was why we had to pay over $130 per year for the privilege
>of listening to repeating automation systems that were blanked out
>if we drove near large trees or buildings. Now, we even have to
>listen to commercials if the signal gets through.
>
>They "automatically renew" your account, meaning that they
>just steal more money from the credit-card you first used to
>"enable" the service. Once you convince them to REALLY
>TERMINATE the account, by terminating the charge number,
>the XM automobile radios periodically  interrupt AM, FM, and
>CD audio, declaring that your account has expired.There is
>no way to turn the "&*!@%$R_&_" off, except by paying the
>"account" charge, or drilling a hole in the radio in some
>special spot, so the down-link chip gets disabled..
>
>Letters to various agencies go unanswered, which is why
>they get away with this stuff. All the XM Radio stuff is spewed
>from a single converted warehouse in Washington, D.C.
>It truly is a license to steal.