I Spent 500$ on Xbox Gift Cards At Walmart And not a single code works

I will move this to XBox, this forum is for Windows Insider

Walmart Gift Cards are not an acceptable form of Payment with Microsoft.

If you are needing to purchase XBox Live Gold, Walmart sells Cards for that in store then you can redeem the code on the Xbox.

If you are wanting to use it to purchase a game, then you can purchase an Xbox Gift card from Walmart and use the code on that to apply it to your account.

Hope that Helps.

That's really odd

May I know if you tried to purchase an Xbox gift card and then pre-order the game using Microsoft balance?

If not, please try that. You can purchase the gift card here:

https://www.microsoft.com/p/xbox-gift-card-digi...

Or you can use any third party store like Amazon, Walmart, etc

If the redeem code gives an error of not activated return to merchant, then its target you have to deal with not xbox. I had this same problem with walmart. The barcode on the back has to be scanned by the cashier or it can't be used. So there was a
problem with scanning the gift card. Every card has its own code. I bought two cards, one scanned but the other wouldn't scan so they re scanned the first gift card. It showed on the receipt that I bought two gift cards but one was scanned twice so the
other one was useless. Walmart gave me my money back because they couldn't take gift cards back as a return. Make sure you still have your receipt and you get to deal with someone nice at target. Maybe take a screenshot of the error message to show target
as well.

Walmart would be the only ones who could possibly refund it, since that's where you purchased them, but it's pretty common that gift cards (not just Xbox gift cards) are non-refundable.