Prepaid card loaded on Microsoft account but allow purchase of vbucks package

I bought prepaid gift card added to my Microsoft acct. Balance shows up, but will not allow to purchase vbucks package? Txs

Hi there, you can buy anything with the credit that you have in your balance even v-vucks. But yiu gonna need the amount obviously.

the gift cards are money equal to what the vbucks would be, he should have a cash value on his microsoft account to purchase the vbucks with.

If the vbucks were part of a promotion with the prepaid code you purchased, there would either have been an additional code with the card or you would need to contact the retailer you purchased it from to get a code from them. Otherwise, the promotion
through Xbox requires that the subscription be purchased with a credit card, so prepaid cards would not be eligible.

Microsoft have never allowed microsoft account currency to be used for xbox live gold membership purchases, You would need to buy an xbox live gold branded prepaid code card not a currency card.

Thanks for the reply. If the Microsoft account balance is essentially a gift card, is there a way to use that to purchase Vbucks? If not, what can we do to facilitate the purchase of Vbucks (or are we really limited with what that Microsoft account balance can buy us?)?

And would you happen to know why the Xbox all of a sudden wouldn’t accept Vbucks purchases via the usual way (PayPal) and sent my son down the path of having to ask a parent (the purchase the Microsoft credit)?