- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Premium Purchases FIX!!! After reading every post with "premium" in it (34 pages is a lot), I almost wonder if XBox Live got my premium purhcases setting cleared up while I was just messing with the 360 family settings. Like many, I couldn't enter the last 4 digits of my credit card on my Original XBox's Dashboard 'cause I upgraded to a 360 (got technical difficulties error). The problem is...I'm not sure how I fixed it. But I can tell ya all that I did and didn't do. I didn't have any family settings enabled to start with so I couldn't hit the Disable Family Settings button (greyed out). I didn't add no 2nd credit card er mess with any colors...silver...gold...poop brown...no, no.
All I think I did was restrict all family setting, like ONLY Allow G-Rated TV 'n everything (I created a 2nd gamer profile--no credit card er nothin'--to do this, but I don't think that's necessary)...save settings, restart the 360 (don't think the restart was necessary, but couldn't hurt),
AAAHHH, now the Disable Family Settings button isn't greyed out...HIT IT!!!! (I deleted the new gamer profile just before this step and signed back into my regular gamer profile, but again, I don't think that 2nd gamer profile is necessary) I think this is the only way in a 360 to allow Premium Purchases. Save settings, restart (again, don't think restart is necessary).
No more premium purchases error on either the 360 or the xbox...it was just the installation error after that...which is server congestion...just keep trying. If you're getting purchase error...I've got nothing for ya...try using a different credit card. If you never had a 360 and get the technical difficulties error when entering the last 4 digits of your credit card in the XBox Dashboard...well...I think you're screwed...either 1-800-4MY-XBOX or get your account onto a friend's 360 temporarily to try this.
[Edited on 04.24.2007 10:12 AM PDT]