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Live account parental confirmation

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Archived post from September 26, 2013. Product: Hotmail – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Sep 26, 2013
Hi,

My daughter has an Xbox Live account as do I. We are currently trying to sign in to her account to add a new email address to it. 

When we attempt to sign it on the internet it prompts that she needs parental permission to make changes and use the account over a browser (which is fair enough). 

It then asks for the parent to sign in with their Live Account. When I sign in it informs me that I will need to prove I am an adult and that I will need to make a credit card transaction. I am not sure why you need to do this when you already have my credit card details on my account. 

When I click the button to proceed it then takes me to a page where I am required to fill in my address and credit card details. However, the page seems to assume that only US citizens would want to have a Microsoft Account. The county is hardcoded to the US and thus the page is asking for Zip and State information that I can't provide as I live in the UK.

The options for Category and Product don't really cover this either so I have had to guess the best choice.


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