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Contact email re MS XBox Live Gold refund

Hi All,
Just checking bank statements and find that I`ve been paying an annual charge for XBox Live Gold since 2016. The subscription was cancelled at the end of 2015! I`ve tried to work my way through Microsoft Online with no luck. Does anyone have a contact email in the UK that I could use to get hold of Microsoft to discuss this?
Thanks in advance.

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  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,644 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Do you have anything to backup that it was cancelled in 2015 ?
    How have you only just noticed ?
  • feolojad
    feolojad Posts: 37 Forumite
    10 Posts
    edited 2 February 2021 at 12:49PM
    No longer using a console and removing your account from it doesn't cancel the subscription. You either have to log onto the MS website and cancel the subscription there or cancel it through the Account settings in the Xbox dashboard. Did you do either of those things?
  • Thanks for this guys. The Xbox actually belongs to my son. I`ll make contact with Microsoft and see if I can negotiate a refund. It now looks like my son cancelled his account but we didn`t cancel the subscription.
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