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Technology Stocks : Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kovachs who wrote (5286)	10/6/2006 5:13:05 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

Another clue for you ptel. All OEM radios are FREE Radios that are given away to the OEM's. Some percentage of the retail radios are free giveaways. Only your logic would come to the conlclusion that thereby retail radios have a greater subsidy. You know.. I think you are on to something here.. You see, I always thought the same thing. That is, that the OEM radios are "FREE RADIOS". And would require a much larger subsidy than that of the Retail Crowd. But, David Ray assured me that NONE OF THE OEM RADIOS WERE FREE RADIOS. Here is his exact post. I stated: How else do you market the OEM promo subs. They got a FREE radio, they got several months of FREE trial content. David Ray responded by saying.. I don't know of any that got a "FREE" radio. I believe Toyota is still charging $600 or something for XM. Even GM still charges $195. Message 22663934 So part of my viewpoint about retail CPGA being higher than OEM is based on "what appears to be BAD INFORMATION" that your bunky David Ray has been spreading. I mean.. Surely you can clearly understand my viewpoint of Retail CPGA being higher than OEM when Mr. Ray advised me that Toyota is charging $600 for XM in one of their cars. I mean it is hard to conceptualize the concept that someone paying $600 for an XM radio in a Toyota on an OEM basis, results in a HIGHER CPGA than that of someone that paid $100 for a radio in the retail chain. I mean.. I tried to argue the point. But, Mr. Ray assured me that I had no clue what I was talking about. (Even though he had no links to support his OPINIONS). Now, just take a look at what happens when one assumes that what David Ray says, is a FACT!! I'm with you.. I think the boy doesn't have a clue. So if my viewpoint has been WRONG, then it is based on the BAD INFORMTATION that I was presented by your "bunky" Mr. Ray. So just to get your viewpoint straight. All the OEM installs are FREE RADIOS. Got it! Thanks for agreeing with my original viewpoint, before I got all of that bad info from Mr. Ray. Maybe you and Mr. Ray can have a discussion about this before beddy bye time tonight?? Maybe a good pillow fight.. Winner takes all. David wins, OEM Radio's are $600, you win, OEM radios are FREE. Let us know which one it is tomorrow morning so we can stick it in our models. Best Regards, PCSTEL