Followed by Gamertag with same name

This is how the gamertag system has always worked.

The system does not recognise spaces or capital letters so GAMERTAG & Gamer Tag would be seen as the same.

When searching for a gamertag you need to type it in exactly which is why it may of said the tag you wanted was available.

This normally means that you did not sign in with the same email and password as your original account.

You can try and contact xbox support by going to support.xbox.com/contact-us and give them your original gamertag and as long as you can verify ownership of your account they should be able to give you the email associated with that gamertag.

It is good to know. But this does not change the fact that the prompt with the warning text was misleading because it stated false information.

It stated that if I change my gamertag to "nick name" the old one "nickname" will be free to choose.

I think this issue should be fixed because gamertag change could cost money.

I am a little bit happy that it was my free change otherwise I would be extremely disappointed and ask for a refund or the help of my bank.

My original gamertag was 10 characters long and the new one with space is 11. So I think it has nothing to do with character limit.

And yes I was given that prompt where I was told my new gamertag will be "nick name" and my old one "nickname" will be available for anyone.

Interestingly I can choose "nickname" on the account where I changed the gamertag to "nick name" (for a price of course) but not on the other one where I intended to use "nickname" gamertag.

I want to ask, for the gamertag change, were you given a prompt like
this when changing your gamertag? Because my only guess of what it could've done is character limit since I've never seen this happen before. The character limit too is only set to 12 characters for the gamertag that'll for that says "Xbox One console and
Xbox Apps" while the second one is given a character limit of 15 characters.