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Xbox 360 Live 12 Month Gold Card plus 1 Month Bonus Review (continued)
More User Submitted Xbox 360 Live 12 Month Gold Card plus 1 Month Bonus Reviews
Date: 2008-09-20
Great member ship I recommend this one!
I like this because I bought 12 months and got one free. It is a good member ship and I dont have to worrie for over a year to re new it.. I recommend it very much.
Date: 2008-09-18
Insult to injury
PRO
Price is awesome
Ok, this is simple. You need this to play xbox live games with you friends, co-workers or any fool who challenges you. Its so addicting im willing to pay for it.
I use it mainly for Halo 3, COD4, Bad Company, Rockband DLC
CON: Shipping UGH*
7-10 Business days OUCH!!! They mean it, USPS ,Yep Postal Service!!!
If I could call and have the code read to me over the phone I would choose this option.
I placed the order Sept 10th, (still not here took 3 whole days to move across town to springfield MA, if i knew i would have done a detour from Six flags there....)it is set to arrive Sept 22nd
its also a dollar cheaper adding insult to injury, yes Whah...
I need a whambulance!!!!
Date: 2008-09-17
Great value compared to brick and mortar stores.
If you can get this for under $49.99 then it is a great value. You can't find this on sale much in the local store. It is a better value than renewing online since you get the extra month free with the card code (13 months for the price of 12). Make sure you put the code in online a little before your current subscription expires so that it will become effective on the day your subscription expires. Great Value!!
Date: 2008-09-09
Best Deal for Xbox Live
To sum it up quick, this is the best deal you can purchase for Xbox Live.
Here is a quick breakdown:
1 month via Microsoft = $7.99 = $7.99/month
3 months via Microsoft = $19.99 = $6.66/month
12 months via Microsoft = $49.99 = $4.17/month
12+1 months via Amazon = $45.00 = $3.46/month
This card comes with THIRTEEN (13) months of Xbox Live for cheaper than directly from Xbox. I fully recommend purchasing Live via Amazon, but the choice is yours.
Date: 2008-08-29
Great Price. No Problems At All.
I spent quite a bit of time reading the reviews for this Gold Card. The single biggest problem I read about was how people needed to scratch off the back of the card to access the 25-digit code needed to activat it. If a person scratched too hard, the code became unreadable and the card was no good. There was supposibly no way retrieve the numbers once they were illegible. When my card arrived, I was expecting to have to go through this process. But to my plesant surprise, all I had to do was PEEL BACK a piece of perferated strip from the back of the card. No scratching involved at all. Maybe due to so many complaints, they decided to fix the problem and make it easier. Who knows, but at least I did not distroy the card or scratch so hard the numbers became unreadable.
Another concern I had was WHEN to use this card. I only used about 1 week of my "Free One Month Gold Membership" that came with my new X-Box 360. Should I risk renewing now and possibly loosing my remaining 3 "free" weeks included in my month long trial? Or should I wait until the free month is almost over and use my card then? I have read that if you let your month expire, all the stuff you have accumilated on that user profile is gone. You will have to start over from scratch. I decided to take a chance and use my card the next day. After I followed the simple instruction on my card, and entered the 25-digit code on my 360, I got an email from the email address I used to register with. It stated that I had extened my memberhsip until October 15 of 2009. Since my origional membership WOULD HAVE expired on September 15, and the card I purchased was for 13 Months, that would put me at October 15, 2009. So for anybody who is worried that the Gold Membership will not let your trial month "run out" before it activates, dont worry about it. You wont loose any time. It will run concurrently with your free month, or any membership you already have, before it activates.
The only other complaint I have seen in regards to this card is how long it takes to recieve it from Amazon. This I cannot really help with because I use Amazon Prime. I spend enough money with Amazon, and do enough of my shopping through them, that Amazon Prime is just about the only way to go for me. Expecially since I live in a rural area and do not have alot of the electronic stores or discount outlets you would normally find in larger cities. I can tell you this: It took me 4 days to get my card. Normally Amazon Prime has everything at my doorstep within 2 days. I was not too worried becasue I still had 3 weeks left on my trial membership. But if I did NOT use Amazon Prime, or if I only had a couple days left before my membership expired, I might have considered purchasing it locally for the extra money. So my advice is to either buy early and expect the longer than usual delays, or go Prime and get it within 4 days.
With the price of this card being about 10 dollars cheaper then Wal-Mart, and also giving you the extra month for free, this card is definately worth the money. ANYBODY who already has Amazon Prime would be a fool to buy this card at the store. If you DONT have Prime, and your membership will expire soon, maybe it would be better to get it at your local store and eat the difference in price. But for me and MY experience, I could not have asked for a easier time. That is why I am giving this review 5 Gold Stars. I hope this review helps.
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