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Xbox live users..Please Help!

Sorry if you've read my plea before, but I don't want to fork out £40.00 or so on a gold card when they're are half that on e-bay. The trouble is that they are US
and I don't know if they are compatible on a UK Xbox.

Can anyone shed any light on this.
Please,
DK
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  • C_Ronaldo
    C_Ronaldo Posts: 4,732 Forumite
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    at xmas i bought 1 from an american seller on ebay, she sent me the code via email very promptly

    is it an xbox 360 your wanting to buy the LIVE subs card for
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  • D.K.
    D.K. Posts: 596 Forumite
    Yes, it's an Xbox 360 live gold card I'm after.
    It is interesting what you say because I've just had an e-mail reply from M$ to sat that the US ones don't work in the UK!!
  • D.K.
    D.K. Posts: 596 Forumite
    That's not a bad price for a UK card but the US ones are sometimes HALF the price!!!
    Once again the UK gets ripped off.
    So we can buy them from the US, but do the us ones work here. M$ say "No" yet C-Ronald, above did just this at Christmas.
    Anyone else had experience of this?
  • C_Ronaldo
    C_Ronaldo Posts: 4,732 Forumite
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    DK i cant confirm if it was a US subscription i bought but i was defo from a US seller so im guessing it was a US subs(i didnt recieve the card in the post, i had the code emailed to me), have you tried asking on the xbox.com forums,
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  • D.K.
    D.K. Posts: 596 Forumite
    Yes I have on 2 different forums but no reply. Is there nobody there??
  • D.K.
    D.K. Posts: 596 Forumite
    C_Ronaldo wrote:
    DK i cant confirm if it was a US subscription i bought but i was defo from a US seller so im guessing it was a US subs(i didnt recieve the card in the post, i had the code emailed to me), have you tried asking on the xbox.com forums,

    Mm, No card... just a code.
    Maybe I'm just a bit suspicious but is it possible to obtain codes from somewhere, somehow??
  • crompton
    crompton Posts: 463 Forumite
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    yeah you look at the card then email the code that is written on the card
    Like what I said? click thanks!:rotfl: :rotfl:

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  • D.K.
    D.K. Posts: 596 Forumite
    ...or just get a code and sell it.

    Yeah!
  • C_Ronaldo
    C_Ronaldo Posts: 4,732 Forumite
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    D.K. wrote:
    ...or just get a code and sell it.

    Yeah!

    the bit of card is what you get if you win a bid but as it was coming from the US i asked her if she could email me the code, it wud save me x amount on postage
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