Xbox Live Gold for 37 euros!

EricM

Here are instructions on how to get Xbox Live gold for 37 euros (the normal price is 59.95).

Credit card required and this only works for new signups, and will renew at the same price every year

Logout of any live accounts you may have.
goto System -> Console Settings -> Locale, change to United States.

Join xbox live, when prompted select country United States,
Enter the first line of your address as normal,

City: Beverly Hills
State: California
Zip: 90210

You will now be given the price in US dollars, which is $49.95, about 37 euros.

Might not work on credit cards that are issued by UK banks as they may have address verifcation system (AVS) but irish card like AIB works fine.
Change locale back to Ireland when your done.

Enjoy

Timans

Great thinking, I never thought of this!

Fnz

Cool! How much does it cost if bought with the locale set to Ireland?

NiSmO

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Dman001

I bought a subscription on Ebay for about 26 euro so I think I will stick to that.

unklerosco

Dman001 wrote:

I bought a subscription on Ebay for about 26 euro so I think I will stick to that.

Ditto...

Makaveli

Only problem with Ebay is they all seem to be 12+1 subs now, no normal 12 month ones.

mcgovern

Yeah, no cheap subs to be found on ebay anymore, might try this tommorrow, thanks!

Vyse

Cool, definitely going to give this one a try. Sound out:D

Kenny_D

mcgovern wrote:

Yeah, no cheap subs to be found on ebay anymore, might try this tommorrow, thanks!

Let us know if it works

koneko

mcgovern wrote:

Yeah, no cheap subs to be found on ebay anymore, might try this tommorrow, thanks!

You already have an account. Useful tip for people that are new to the 360 and/or Xbox Live, but for everyone else it's not much use

kmick

Not to be a smart arse or anything but this worked for me since day one. It woeks more easily if your hotmail is also listed as the same address. They are trying to crack down on it though.

mcgovern

koneko wrote:

You already have an account. Useful tip for people that are new to the 360 and/or Xbox Live, but for everyone else it's not much use

Does it only work if you've never signed upto Xbox Live before or if you've never signed up through Xbox Live (my last gold sub I bought off play.com).

koneko

mcgovern wrote:

Does it only work if you've never signed upto Xbox Live before or if you've never signed up through Xbox Live (my last gold sub I bought off play.com).

This method only works on new accounts as you're tricking it into thinking you're in the US (and thus pay US price). If you already bought a sub before, your account will have already gone online and is presumably set as an Irish account.

Brianb8802

Just curious would this work?

If i set up a new profile on my xbox, and get this 1 year sub. Does this mean i can go back to my first profile and play on xbox live since there is a profile on my machine that has a sub or does each profile have to have its own sub?

koneko

Subs are for profiles (so your account is normally Silver, if you have a sub it's Gold), not consoles, so that won't work.

mcgovern

koneko wrote:

This method only works on new accounts as you're tricking it into thinking you're in the US (and thus pay US price). If you already bought a sub before, your account will have already gone online and is presumably set as an Irish account.

Bah humbug
Thanks for the info

Vyse

What's with the 12+1 month subscriptions? Why won't they work?

Brianb8802

Makaveli wrote:

Only problem with Ebay is they all seem to be 12+1 subs now, no normal 12 month ones.

What is it with these subs, that they wont work for us here in ireland?


EDIT: Just saw the post above. Sorry:o

rcs

I haven't bought a Gold Sub before but have used the trial one month one's etc... Would I be able to do this?

mcgovern

Vyse wrote:

What's with the 12+1 month subscriptions? Why won't they work?

It seems these ones only work for first time subscribers also.

Julez

AFAIK the dont work here at all, not even for first time sign up

Fnz

Cheers for the info NiSmO.

koneko wrote:

This method only works on new accounts as you're tricking it into thinking you're in the US (and thus pay US price).

Doing this wouldn't lock you into using American servers for online gaming, would it?

RobertFoster

XBL is a peer-to-peer based gaming service. Multiplayer games are hosted by someone rather than it being on a server. The download server (demos and arcade games etc.) might be region based, but I doubt it'd hold up downloads much.

shortys94

Sory but is there a 2 month xbox live sub one can buy?

RobertFoster

3 month and 12 month are the ones available in the shops. I think you can pay per month through the xbox itself.

SmashingPilot

RobertFoster wrote:

3 month and 12 month are the ones available in the shops. I think you can pay per month through the xbox itself.

What he said.

There used to be 2 month free trials available but this was for the original Xbox. They used to come free with selected games. If you have a credit/debit card then you can pay for Xbox Live straight from your console. You have the choice to pay the full €60 at once or €5 per month.

Gameplay or Play usually do deals on subscriptions. I thought I would also point out that the 12 month subscriptions from the original Xbox still work on the 360.

brianon

Looks like sigining up and setting your region to US might be a bad idea !

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=76020

EricM

Likely they will just stop the ability to create new accounts, cutting people off would put them in violation of visa/mastercard agreements for not providing service.

Fnz

EricM wrote:

Likely they will just stop the ability to create new accounts, cutting people off would put them in violation of visa/mastercard agreements for not providing service.

Their terms of service small print may have them covered.

mik_da_man

Just to update Ya'll.

If you have your membership set to US and have already used your trial on XBOX Live this will work.

I used my Irish CC and a Beverly hills address and I got the gold membership

Cheers OP

Mik

Julez

I just got a 12 month for €27 on ebay, you just have to look for the ones without the additional month, although they are much more rare now!

Onearmedbandit

Its not a good idea to set your account to US. Further to previous post about MS banning people that do it it also means that any microsoft points cards that you buy in Ireland (which are region locked to Europe) wont work on your Xbox 360. I found this out the hard way when my xbox account was linked to my hotmail that is US registered.
Sorry lads

mik_da_man

Yep, but ya can just use a Credit Card to buy points on Xbox live though :cool:

Mik

the-ging

Julez wrote:

I just got a 12 month for €27 on ebay, you just have to look for the ones without the additional month, although they are much more rare now!

Hey Julez whats the name of the seller?

I need to get back on live!

Julez

the-ging wrote:

Hey Julez whats the name of the seller?

I need to get back on live!

I think I found him by luck, he's only ever sold like 5 items or something his name was ravenhearted!