The only way I could use the card is to create a new GamerTag and start over. They would not give me a refund. Of course my inital free "month" was really only one day, as my 1st box got the 3 red lights of death and had to be returned, and it took several months before I could get another one.

I was highly disappointed when the card wouldn't work on my GamerTag, I tried Microsoft email support 4 times, with no help but canned responses. I called, and after an hour on the phone, they finally came up with, my GamerTag had been used for the free month when I bought the console, and when that expired, and I went back to Silver level, they CANCELLED that GamerTag from Xbox Live!!!!! Never to be used again.

Not only it was not an issue, for it was, I am assuming, I newer card, where you do not need to scratch anything, but I've got one month extra too. The card was sealed in a hard-plastic wrap that needed to be cut-open by scissors. The code was printed on the back of the card, no scratching necessary.

So I was unable to load any saved games for any games (to play locally or online). It has been three days now and I have tried to recover my profile countless times and still can't load any save games. I called XBOX support and their only suggestions was to....

Granted, I would need to wait for it to arrive in the mail, but since Microsoft gives a one-month advance warning before one's Xbox Live membership expires, that was not an issue.

It said 12 plus 1 month on the web sight, but the card came and only said 12 months. But guess what? When he enterd the code on the back he got the 13 months.

I got the package today, and I was very disappointed that I got only 12 month card instead of 12+1, 13 month card. I am not sure whether Amazon ran out of those 13 month cards; however, I would not be this much disapppointed if the website correctly advertised and I was aware of what I was expecting in my package.

Xbox Live is a great service, and its very fairly priced especially if you buy it for a year. I would much rather pay for a service and have it work nicely than get a free online service which is laggy.

This thing took a MONTH to get... Id go to the store and pay Extra... They said 3 days not 4 weeks!

(Each time requiring the gamertag, email address and password. I repeated this 7 times and was unable to recover the profile.

The card was a little cheaper but it took a long time to ship. If you have time to wait then I would recommend getting it through amazon.

Pretty slow, particularly since I had to pay over $4.00 for shipping and this procuct can be found several places online where the prduct can be downloaded immediately after submittin payment.

Microsoft wants $49.99 for 12 months of xbox live... Amazon wants $43.99 for 13 months.

As for buying the service, I would recommend buying it on Amazon instead of handing over your credit card number and buying it over Xbox live.

There is nothing to rub off. Code is printed on back of card.

Not only it was not an issue, for it was, I am assuming, I newer card, where you do not need to scratch anything, but I've got one month extra too. The card was sealed in a hard-plastic wrap that needed to be cut-open by scissors. The code was printed on the back of the card, no scratching necessary.

It said 12 plus 1 month on the web sight, but the card came and only said 12 months. But guess what? When he enterd the code on the back he got the 13 months.

There is nothing to rub off. code is printed on back of card.

The only way I could use the card is to create a new gamertag and start over. They would not give me a refund. Of course my inital free "month" was really only one day, as my 1st box got the 3 red lights of death and had to be returned, and it took several months before I could get another one.

I was highly disappointed when the card wouldn't work on my gamertag, I tried Microsoft email support 4 times, with no help but canned responses. I called, and after an hour on the phone, they finally came up with, my gamertag had been used for the free month when I bought the console, and when that expired, and I went back to Silver level, they CANCELLED that gamertag from Xbox Live!!!!! Never to be used again.

(Each time requiring the gamertag, email address and password. I repeated this 7 times and was unable to recover the profile.

It said 12 plus 1 month on the web sight, but the card came and only said 12 months. But guess what? When he enterd the code on the back he got the 13 months.

Microsoft wants $49.99 for 12 months of xbox live... Amazon wants $43.99 for 13 months.

Xbox Live is a great service, and its very fairly priced especially if you buy it for a year. I would much rather pay for a service and have it work nicely than get a free online service which is laggy.

As for buying the service, I would recommend buying it on Amazon instead of handing over your credit card number and buying it over Xbox live.

Not only it was not an issue, for it was, I am assuming, I newer card, where you do not need to scratch anything, but I've got one month extra too. The card was sealed in a hard-plastic wrap that needed to be cut-open by scissors. The code was printed on the back of the card, no scratching necessary.

Xbox Live is a great service, and its very fairly priced especially if you buy it for a year. I would much rather pay for a service and have it work nicely than get a free online service which is laggy.