Xbox Live Query.

You can pay monthly,3 monthly or a year at a time.

Best thing is to shop around online as you can get some good deals on 1,3 & 12 month codes that are a lot cheaper than buying on xbox live itself.

Yes, you can use a credit card to purchase gold through Live. As long as you choose a 1 month subscription you will auto-renew every month until you turn that off.

A couple of things about that though. It's cheaper to purchase a 1 year subscription instead of renewing monthly. It's $9.99/month which would work out to be about $120 a year vs. $60 up front for 1 year. You can also find prepaid gold cards online for about
$30-40 as well.

If you don't see a change made to your renewal status within a day or so, I suggest calling phone support back just to be sure. As for the month of LIVE, have you tried recovering your gamertag to your console, to see if the change goes through then?

First part, there is usually a delay across systems, especially when you call customer support. Hopefully that piece has resolved itself.

Second part -- there's usually a delay with that, too, but not usually more than 30 minutes. How did you pay for the 1-month of Gold? I ask because your payment method could re-establish the automatic renewal (just a warning).

Appreciate the help, but all sorted. Called up support and it was because the deal they organised to get my next year of live for £23.99 required auto-renew to be on and they will send me a reminder to turn it off and the gold problem just took a bit of
trial an error with stuff like testing connection and signing in and out a few times and it kicked in.

Thanks any way