XBL gift card question????

I live in the U.S. and my buddy Joe lives in Canada. Joe wants to buy me some Arcade Games for my birthday. It seems that Joe cannot recover my Gamertag and just buy the games himself. Anyways, we had the bright idea of Joe just buying a gift card and sending
me the code on the back.

Yet I read somewhere about how the gift cards have to match the same monetary value of the currency the person redeeming it is in. It makes it seem like it's possible but at the same time it doesn't say how. It's confused us both. I know the Canadian dollar
is worth more than the U.S. dollar.

So if I redeem a code he sends for a $30 gift card, would it only give me $26.48 or would it just not work period?

Another friend suggested buying the card from Amazon and having it shipped to me directly but it seems the same problem arises due to Joe only being able to purchase from the Canadian Amazon.

We used to be able to buy each other games using a temp account I created to just load points onto, one of us recover it, and then use said points to buy whatever. But it seems like that's no longer an option.

I just wish this were easier and XBL had a gifting system like Steam.

:)

 

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Some of it's from Bing Rewards. Yes. The other is when they had a sale on XBL Gift cards.

 

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I've done really well lately, I got £50 XBOX Gift Card from Currys for £10, a £10 XBOX Gift Card from Argos (had a gift voucher that I forgot about and was about to expire!) and a £20 XBOX Gift card, again from Argos as I had a Nectar pamphlet in the post, telling me I had £21 to spend!

So £80 of XBL credit for a £10 spend. :thumbsup:

 

a card from Canada will not work on a USA account and vice versa

 

Well does anyone know how we'd go about getting each other gifts on the Arcade?

 

well you can buy a card for his region just make sure it is from said region, you an get a USA card from say amazon.com and a Canadian one from amazon.ca for example good luck.

 

Thanks, I'll look into it.