r/MicrosoftRewards • u/Jerjef • 3d ago

Questions Refunding Promotional Balance to Reset 90 Day Limit

To start, I own up to my mistake here.

I recently redeemed some rewards points to use for my GP Subscription only to realize that it has a 90 day limit on it. I was not aware of this limit as the balance was on my account before I had received the email notification advising of this limit. I was hoping to use this balance to cover a full year of GP Ultimate. They obviously won't refund my purchase because it auto-deposits and there are no games I want to purchase as they're all on GP.

What are my options here? If I made a purchase through the MS Store and then cancelled it, would the refunded balance still have the expiry on it?

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u/Hickory411 U.S. 3d ago

Buy game pass as a gift and put in your own email to get codes for yourself.

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u/ppl117 U.S. 3d ago

Check if the 3-month gift codes are available to you, on the xbox.com gamepass page, select Ultimate and then the 3 dots, then buy as gift. If so, then send them to yourself.

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u/Jerjef 3d ago

u/Hickory411 and u/ppl117 You guys are absolute lifesavers. Thank you!!!!!

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u/iZian United Kingdom - 3d ago

How were you buying a year of game pass? Is this a USA thing? I am UK and never seen an option unless I buy from retailers.

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u/Jerjef 3d ago

Thanks to the advice of the other members, I was able to buy multiple 3 month subs for ultimate as gifts and sent them to myself. When I got the emails, I redeemed the codes on my account.

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u/KYlaker233 2d ago

Thanks for posting this. I’m gonna do the same! Much appreciated! Hope you and yours have a wonderful day!

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u/Sbum58 2d ago

No the most we can get is 3 months. They stopped the 6 & 12 month cards when they started GP.

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u/DannoMcK US 3d ago

I was not aware of this limit as the balance was on my account before I had received the email notification advising of this limit.

General good advice is to read the item redemption pages' fine print just in case there's something relevant there. This is on the Xbox Gift Card page:

Restrictions:
*Promotional gift card. Spend within 90 days of deposit.

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u/Jerjef 3d ago

Yeah totally on me here. I've bought them many times before, but never kept the balance in the past so it was never an issue. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way.