I am on silver right now and I wanted to have Gold Live for 1 month. I can't buy a card so I wanted to use my credit card to buy the month of live. Since I have never used a credit card to buy live time I had to enter a new payment option. I put in all the credit card info and I click next and then I put in the address. Once I click next the 360 says "Cannot authorize this credit card" or something like that. Why is this? And why is the address information not include places to put in countries other than US states? I mean I live outside the US. There was only city and state (and for state there were only US states). Maybe because of that? Anyways I tired to fill it out anyway (with a state and american city) but it didn't work.
Yeah, It wouldn't work if you used a american state, it has to be the exact information linked to your card. I also don't live in the US, so I just did it on the xbox360 site, and it was easy and worked, so if you havent tried yet, have a go there.
The credit card must be registered to teh same country as your gamertag, and there's no way around this.
If you can't find a live card in a store, then look online for a seller that has cards suitable for your console (US uses different codes to Europe for instance). Some will send you the code by email so you don't have to worry about postage to weird places.
just make a new email on hotmail.com then make a new gamertag and sign up for silver and get a month free gold. and do that everytime so u get on for free. u need to keep ur main account for game saves for single player etc. but downside is that every month u need to make a new account and re-add ur friends list, its easily done but means ur ranks all get reset online. so if ur ranks are important to you then id buy a card off ebay or phone xbox support to get around it. or if not keep making the trial accounts. i think u can have 4 gamertags on one xbox then delete them via the memory page on the settings blade on the dashboard. and make new ones. all u need is a new hotmail email addy to make them with and it hooks up 1 month per new email addy (cant use the same email twice)
I wouldn't use my credit card for Live if I were you. I did once before and they kept charging my card after I cancelled my service. And it's a pain in the ass to get them to remove your credit card from their database. You have to call them, be put on hold forever, deal with some guy who you can barely understand, and then wait one month for them to call you back and confirm that our credit card info has been removed. But, of course they don't actuallyever end up calling you back to confirm this, so you have to call them again and go through the whole thing again. Fun times. Needless to say, I just buy the prepaid cards now.
just make a new email on hotmail.com then make a new gamertag and sign up for silver and get a month free gold. and do that everytime so u get on for free. u need to keep ur main account for game saves for single player etc. but downside is that every month u need to make a new account and re-add ur friends list, its easily done but means ur ranks all get reset online. so if ur ranks are important to you then id buy a card off ebay or phone xbox support to get around it. or if not keep making the trial accounts. i think u can have 4 gamertags on one xbox then delete them via the memory page on the settings blade on the dashboard. and make new ones. all u need is a new hotmail email addy to make them with and it hooks up 1 month per new email addy (cant use the same email twice)djrobst
This won't work as you only get the months gold trial on the first 3 or 4 accounts created on your 360. After that it just creates silver ones.
Okay then I live in asia (not Japan though, or east asia for that matter) and I bought my PAL 360 from Virgin. Now I was already screwed becuase all the games sold in other stores here are NTSC. And now I find out they dont sell Live cards and that Live cards are region encoded as well. So if I buy a live prepaid card from Europe will it work on my PAL 360?
Yeah, It wouldn't work if you used a american state, it has to be the exact information linked to your card. I also don't live in the US, so I just did it on the xbox360 site, and it was easy and worked, so if you havent tried yet, have a go there.Resoky
If you aren't in the USA, but, signed up as american when you made your silver account, it simply won't work, the CC details need to match your sign up information, especially regionally.
If you aren't in the USA, but, signed up as american when you made your silver account, it simply won't work, the CC details need to match your sign up information, especially regionally.Andrew_Xavier
How can I change that those details (if I did that)?
[QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"]If you aren't in the USA, but, signed up as american when you made your silver account, it simply won't work, the CC details need to match your sign up information, especially regionally.jm100
How can I change that those details (if I did that)?
You'd have to make a new xbl account, as different xbl regions are tied to what xbl is displayed, essentially, XBL canada is VERY different from XBL USA which is very different from XBL europe, etc etc
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