From the Rumor Mill - More on Sirius' Retail Holdups
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 12:38 PM
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Lots of rumors and speculation going around about the possible retail delays from Sirius. Here's a compilation of all the chatter (yes, some of it is conflicting):
- The cause for the delays are due to a pending FCC certification on the updated devices.
- The cause for the delays are due to Sirius re-designing their non-compliant FM modulator connectors.
- The Sportster 4 is back-ordered until July 15th - this may be for big-box store (ie, Best Buy) shipments. This supposedly is because they are waiting for Sirius Sportster SPTK2 stock to run out.
- The Sirius Sportster SPTK2 Replay, Sirius One, Starmate Replay, Sirius Connect Home Tuner, GM connect SIR GM-1 piece, and the SRH550 Digital Sat Tuner are back-ordered until July 5th.
- Xact has always emphasized selling through retailers rather than direct sales, so this is why no product listed on Xact.
And that's all so for now.
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IF this rumor is true, then Frear lied yet again (remember the "we own Toyota" comments).
If I were Mel, I would fire this jerk. His lying has hurt Sirius and the industry.
Posted by: SatelliteRadioFan ? | June 28, 2006 12:53 PM
You cant buy any products via the XACT website.....They never sold anything anyway
Posted by: leo | June 28, 2006 2:33 PM
Lying or not lying...the issue here is that Sirius waited so long.
They should have fixed the radios when the light was on XM.
Now they look stupid.
Posted by: NWXMDUDE ? | June 28, 2006 3:45 PM
The sportster4 appears to be for sale right now from the Sirius web site:
http://tinyurl.com/rln46
Posted by: Rich ? | June 28, 2006 5:45 PM
Yep, I just saw that Rich, thanks!
Posted by: Ryan Saghir ? | June 28, 2006 5:57 PM