Sirius is offering a free Home Kit or Vehicle Kit when purchased with the Stiletto 100 or Stiletto 10 from 11-23-06 to 12-31-06. The rebate is technically a $70 off coupon, but since both the Home and Car kit go for about $70... well, you can do the math.
Go here for the rebate form (PDF). This discount is valid at most retailers excluding Sam's Club, Target and Wal-Mart (pssst! help support this site: check out our sponsors to your right).
Thanks realwx!
It looks like Sirius is getting desperate. I've been getting a daily spam from them offering receivers and cut rate prices. Now they are giving away home/car kits. :)
So, does this mean that XM's price cut of the INNO for the Holiday's make XM desperate?
Seriously, it is a promotion. Judging by a lot of comments on this site it seems like no matter what Sirius does, it is because they are desperate or failing.
Both services have their pros and cons. The constant putting down of either is just immature.
I couldn't have said that any better.
Both companies are "desperate". They are desperate to get subs. XM gives away service and activation. Rebates are for the taking with both companies. So if Sirius wants to pay for your car or home kits because you shelled out up to $350 for a Stiletto, I say good move.
Anything to get a satellite radio into the hands of the consumer and make them feel they got something for their money.
Just make sure it is a XM Radio.
Does the Stilleto not come with one of these kits already?
As much I want XM to pummel Sirius....The two companies need subs and if they both get subs we might see better competition since they will be in the green and will then be able to offer better hardware and competitive prices.
It's just an inability to make a descision and stick to it. I'd bet, at first the docks were going to be included like the S50, but the price point needed to be below Inno so they were removed at the last minute. The inno price cut makes them less comparable and the retailers are screaming that the kits need to be included anyway, not to mention there are boatloads of home/car kits that retailers are not ordering clogging the pipes so they flip flop again.
It's no big deal. You can bury the expense in inventory and capitol carry over to mid 2007.
Just in time for the holidays! The Stiletto is a beautiful thing.
The Inno's been out for long enough that it's due for a price cut, early adopters have already picked it up and they are preparing to release 3rd generation models. The Stiletto has just been released. If, like me you bought one and realized it's a piece of shit, you wouldn't bother shelling out another $70 for any kit, you just want your money back.
PFreak,
1st of all the sl100 is an amazing device and does a hell of a lot more than the inno or helix, so if the sl100 is a piece of shit what does that make the inno and helix???
2nd, the inno price point has been lowered 3 times since it was launched only 7 months ago. $349.99 - $299.99 - $249.99.
Philmore:
Other than the ability to pick up sirius.com via wi-fi, what more does the Stiltto do that the Inno or Helix does not? Nothing. They both are portable satellite ardio receivers that can receive a live signal when portable. They both store Mp3. That is it. Wi-Fi and double the price separate the Stiletto from the Inno/Helix.
Philmore, I have an Inno and bought a Stiletto. I live in Boston, a major metropolitan area. My Inno works everywhere I go including the subway, came with a home kit and still cost less than my Stiletto. I've never had a drop out or reception issue with it. In the same area my Stiletto never got a sat signal, was incompatible with at least half of the hotspots I tried it in, has terrible sound quality and limited channels & recording capabilities in WiFi, doesn't allow for recording hours of a channel and deleting individual songs and locking only what I want to keep and forced me to wear those terrible headphones to get any signal which still dropped out constantly. The Stiletto doesn't do more, it just does WiFi but it does it poorly and the rest of the radio features are similar but just don't work as well as the Inno. I kept my Stiletto for almost the full month I had before I could no longer return it hoping if I worked with it, it would be a better device than I initially thought. It stinks. And yeah, the price of an Inno is going down. Just like a PS2, once a bunch of people buy them and manufacturing efficiencies are realized the price comes down. I would expect the Stiletto price to come down in 6 months or so, not upon initial release. I think the original MiFi is a better portable than the Stiletto, I got much better reception out of that device too. The one thing I want out of a portable is consistant reception. My Inno provides that, the Stiletto went back to the store.
Why do people get into a tizzy over something mundane such as a mail-in-rebate promo.
Every company does it.
Sirius has already won the war. Howard Stern, Nascar, NFL, and NBA. In a years time they have basically drawn neck and neck with XM when they were down by more than a million subs. When Mel decides to buy XM I guess this will be a moot point anyway. Thanks for playing XM. P.S. O&A once again prives they are biters. Hmmm where have I heard of that video contest before??? A year ago on Sirius maybe?