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Trying to Cheat the Microsoft People
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Not cheat in any big way.
But I've been hearing that cancelling your Xbox Live Gold Subscription is notoriously difficult, but I've had a thought.
My current Visa Debit card, which I charged my Gold account to, expires at the end of this month. I've already got my new card which I can use no problem.
My question is this: if I don't change my payment options to charge the account to the new card, does it just, sort of, stop giving me Xbox Live because I haven't got a valid card registered?
But I've been hearing that cancelling your Xbox Live Gold Subscription is notoriously difficult, but I've had a thought.
My current Visa Debit card, which I charged my Gold account to, expires at the end of this month. I've already got my new card which I can use no problem.
My question is this: if I don't change my payment options to charge the account to the new card, does it just, sort of, stop giving me Xbox Live because I haven't got a valid card registered?
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edit - its actually a service provided by your card provider where your recurring charges are put through even though your card details have changed.
it only took me 4 minutes to cancel my subscription.
Thank you, Rubacava!
Call them up, cancel, and call the day before renewal to confirm the cancellation.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
See, I tried this - I used a 1-month temporary CC to pay for Gold.
They disable your account. Completely. It doesn't fall back to Silver, it gets disabled.
I enabled it again with a 30-day Gold code. Never using CC to pay for Gold again.
yes and that doesn't work
Oh yeah, canceling Live a couple months ago was easy. Removing my credit card from my account took about 45 minutes and I was transferred 3 times & asked the same set of questions multiple times by each of the people I was transferred to. I don't mean that each person asked me my name, my account name, my credit card # and if I wanted to remove the credit card once each. I mean they each asked me those things 2-4 times. Each.
It was a pretty horrible experience.
PSN: Broichan
Happened to me.
I called them, and after being on the phone for 20 minutes, I got them to refund me.
That makes sense, so I don't believe that Microsoft added it.
I kept my gold account anyways and I was constantly harassed by email to update my payement info.
That shit should be illegal. It should be just a simple to cancel than it is to subscribe.
Battle.net: Fireflash#1425
Steam Friend code: 45386507
They did the disabling thing to a roommate of mine awhile back so maybe I just got lucky.
It's simpler to cancel than subscribe.
To subscribe you enter a whole lot of personal information into a website/Xbox.
To cancel you dial a number, push a couple buttons, confirm gamertag/name/whatever and say goodbye.
Sometimes they ask you why. They don't actually care, though.
PSN/XBL: dragoniemx
Your only hope is if the system screws up like it did with me where I got an entire 1 and 1/2 months of Live (back when I had an OXBox), when it finally figured out the card was dead they sent me a 50$ refund when it tried to finally renew.....
When I mean as simple I mean If I can subscribe through my console I should also be able to choose a cancel option through the same means. I shouldn't have to call a representative (which may involve having to wait on the phone for a few minutes) to justify my cancellation. Also, see Creepy's post above mentioning that he had to explain himself multiple times before his account was finally cancelled.
Battle.net: Fireflash#1425
Steam Friend code: 45386507
18 months later, I try to subscribe via card again, and they WON'T accept it - because my old card was charged 3 times for 3 months recurring service. And declined each time, but they didn't care because "we gave you 9 months, you owe us 9 months."
They will never let me use a credit card for my account again. So I just use live-cards from the store.
I can't even by points unless I buy them from the store on the card thing. heh.
I hatezors teh live. Sucks it's so much fun.
So for future reference, don't try to do this with anything.
Right, because microsoft gives a shit about your lawsuit :rotate:
The website seemed pretty simple to use for me, I think that's your best bet.
Serving MS would be hassle, but it would probably work. In fact, if he was out of other options, an in-house MS lawyer would bill at least $100/hr and outside counsel is going to be 2-3x that, which is going to be less than the cost of just giving him his subscription $ back.