Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments
SteevyT@beehaw.org 3 days agoYou know, the truck I had at the time somehow never had it’s Sirius radio shut off. Although, I never got billed for it either…
Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments
SteevyT@beehaw.org 3 days agoYou know, the truck I had at the time somehow never had it’s Sirius radio shut off. Although, I never got billed for it either…
lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The truck might have had one of their ‘lifetime’ subscriptions.
Sirius sold lifetime subscriptions. Some people who purchased one were led to believe it was for the rest of their life. Sirius worded it to say it was the lifetime of the device. Their ‘lifetime’ service got cancelled on them after a merger with XM Radio, or they’d replace their vehicle which had a different but still a Sirius radio and could not transfer lifetime service.
There was a class action lawsuit filed. The lawsuit was settled in 2021 (subs had been sold as far back as the early 2000’s) and made ‘lifetime’ refer to the subscriber, not the life of the radio. People with inactive subscriptions could cancel it and get $100. An active subscription could pay $35 (instead of $75) to move it to another radio, each time they wanted to move it. Except that settlement was dismissed in 2022 and it’s no longer possible.