"Giving" Sirius Online Subscription

[Green Tea]

I really hate the Sirius XM website and can't find an answer....or maybe I just find the answer I want. I want to give a friend a year's subscription to listen online. I don't want to add it my account. I don't want to buy a radio. All I can find online is a free month's trial with CC information required to try it. I want to pay in advance, for year of online listening outside of my account. Is this possible? (If not, they are really not very smart for not offering it as a Christmas gift idea)

 

[princesskrys]

I think they have gift cards. Would that work?

 

[yoopermom]

Every Christmas my parents give me a Sirius gift card from best buy for me to renew my subscription. They are available in thirty or fifty dollar denominations. I cant link but if you search their website its the first two items that show up.

Terri

 

[Green Tea]

I saw the cards. Just wasn't sure if I could prepay and actually give the subscription. Thanks, guys.

 

[elgerber]

You could try calling them. It seems to me like something they should be able to do over the phone. But then again, they make me crazy every time I call them.

 

[yoopermom]

The subscription may be cheaper for the recipient if you give her the gift card and she calls to activate the subscription. This is what I do (as the recipient), I call Sirius and say, "I recieved X amount in gift cards for Christmas, I can't afford to spend more than that for the year because I'm poor." I've been with them for years (6?8?), and have never paid more than $75/yr for a basic subscription this way. Sirius is known as a company that will waffle on what they "expect" you to pay vs what most people actually pay.

Terri