Sirius just doesn’t get it
The OAM had Sirius radio in his new truck for the first 3 months. He liked it. A lot. (Pearl Jam radio…) And he drives a lot, so it makes sense to keep it around. They sent letters with awesome deals for the first 6 months if he wanted to continue his trial subscription.
Their service agreement/contract is online.
The only way to get those deals is to call them. And wait on hold.
Seriously? (Or “siriusly,” I guess it could be) It’s 2013. I can buy a car online. I haven’t looked but I bet I can buy a house online. Why the hell can’t I buy a lousy radio subscription online? Do they think they are going to sell me more if I talk to a live person? I suppose it does work like that for some people. Not us people, though.
It’s a significant cost difference. Penalized for not using an outdated technology that opens me to an attempt at sales pressure. Not sure it’s a company with whom I want to do business.
Got the same situation coming up with insurance. Our old agent got “promoted” and we got a new agent about 2 years ago. So far, we’ve been able to avoid meeting him in person. We got a personal articles rider added for the OAM’s camera equipment last year and managed to convince the agent’s lackey to do it all over email. Worked just peachy. I have been thinking we should re-evaluate our homeowners’ insurance to make it is enough to cover all the custom framing and photography that we’ve shelled out for over the last few years. We’ve added content to our contents, I guess you could say. So another lackey has been trying to set up an in-person meet for that. We made one for next week. I told her it was hard to make appointments with us. Yesterday, the OAM found out that he’s going to be in Cleveland all next week. So I called and left a message cancelling our appointment.
When she calls back, I’ve about decided that if she won’t do this through email, I don’t have a need for more insurance and possibly may be in the market for another insurance agent. One that is just online.
Wake up, companies. Business models are changing and consumers who want to be are more educated than ever about their choices. Change with the times or perish. Just ask the newspapers.
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Companies that make it hard to buy their product are run by idiots. They’re right in with vendors that won’t send you an invoice until you badger them with emails, faxes, and phone calls.
Precisely. Yet if you don’t pay, they aren’t slow to send to a collection agency.
I saw an ad for an insurance company where the person said, “I got my insurance 6 months ago and I haven’t heard from my agent since!”
I was thinking “That’s how it should be”.
The ad went on to explain how that was a bad thing.
I won’t use GEICO again because they make you threaten to leave before they’ll lower your rates, but they did make it easy to just deal with online.
I never even spoke to them over the phone.
I’ll keep that in mind about Geico if I end up looking for an online only insurance company.
I thought essurance(sp) was an online insurance company, as well?
Anyway, I am cancelling my Sirius. It’s a PITA because you can’t just order online, and by the time I get to calling, the offers are worthless.
Fairly sure that despite him liking the station a lot, he’s not going to sign up. Too much of a pain and it really chaps his hide to have to pay more just to not talk to someone.