Converting from Gold to Game Pass Ultimate still charging $14.99 month?

Add your Gold card first, then buy 1 month of Ultimate. Your Gold will be converted to Ultimate and you'll have 13 months of Ultimate. Game Pass Ultimate is $14.99 USD.

The 14.99 is just the regular price of Ultimate, you don't get a discount for adding more time, the time is just converted into Ultimate. Gold and Game Pass are converted based on price rather than time. So the price of a 12 month subscription of gold
or game pass is the same price as purchasing 4 months of Ultimate. So since you added the 12 months of Gold before you Ultimate ended, it was automatically converted to Ultimate for 4 months. At the end of the 4 months, you would either need to renew Ultimate
(the 14.99 per month) or you can go back to just Gold after the Ultimate ends.

1) OK, but if I convert my account, I get the first month for $1, then $14.99 per month after that, for what? I already pay $60 a year for xbox gold.

2) A friend said they converted ALL their remaining months of xbox live gold to ultimate and it only cost them $1 in TOTAL, not per month. He said he renewed his gold, then paid $1 extra, and now he has ultimate for the next 14 months, no monthly charge,
does that ring true with anyone here?

1) If you convert an account with prepaid Gold and/or Game Pass, you pay $1 for the conversion, which then adds together all those unused months. For example: If you have 6 months of Gold and 6 months of Game Pass at the time of the conversion, you'll pay
$1 to get your first Game Pass Ultimate month, then 12 more months of Ultimate. After that expires, you will begin paying $14.99/month for Ultimate, which includes all three services - Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass Console and Xbox Game Pass PC.

2) Yes, your friend is exactly right.

I previously purchased Game Pass Ultimate during the $1/month sale, and have since canceled it. Now I have a year's subscription to Xbox Live Gold. If I were to purchase a month of Game Pass Ultimate at the full $14.99 price, would my year of Live still
convert over to a year of Ultimate?

Hi There.

Your current remaining Gold membership will get converted and added to your Game Pass Ultimate subscription based on ERP (Estimated Retail Price). In my territory 12 months of Gold equals 4 months of Ultimate. But it might vary a bit in other countries.