What can I get with an Xbox Digital Gift Card?
Where can I buy Xbox Gift Cards?
How do I redeem my Xbox Gift Card code?
I'm in the USA but would like to buy a movie from Movies & TV that is only available in the Canadian region. To do this, though, I need to add an Xbox Gift Card in Canadian dollars to my account (ideally, around 12.99 CAD). I checked CDKeys, Newegg, Ebay, Rakuten, and Amazon but they don't have any. I tried to buy it from www.microsoft.com/en-ca but got an error message:
Contact us at Microsoft. We’re having trouble processing your payment.
Any other options?
UPDATE I went with u/dave8125's suggestion to buy from the Canadian Costco website (costco.ca). It worked. Here's how to do it:
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When you create an account, you must use a Canadian shipping address even though the Xbox Gift Card was a digital delivery. I simply inputted the address for the Microsoft Store in Toronto, which worked. Then you can use a U.S. credit card for your payment information, and you can properly input your U.S. address as the billing information.
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After you purchase it, you'll immediately get a confirmation email from Costco.ca, and 29 minutes after that I received an email from Codes2Go with the actual 25-character code.
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When I tried to redeem this code on account.microsoft.com, I received an error telling me the code was from another region and that I should return it. I tried again to no avail but then finally figured out how to do it:
I searched for the movie I wanted to buy from the Canadian Microsoft Store website (www.microsoft.com/en-ca/) and then clicked "Buy" from that page. Then it popped up a payment information option and I clicked on "Redeem a code". I inputted the 25-character code and it added it to my account and purchased the movie.
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Following that, the movie showed up in my 'Purchased' section of the Movies & TV app on all of my devices (Xbox One, Windows 10 PC, Windows 10 phone) even though they were all set to the U.S. region.
Side note: if you log into your account on account.microsoft.com, on the left-side pane it will summarize your remaining gift card balance for any region you redeemed cards in; if there is a small remaining balance, you can use it to rent a movie.
But if it's too small in value to do that, I think it'll just go to waste, sitting their unused indefinitely because I don't think you can use multiple funding sources--particularly from multiple regions, so try to find a card that is as close as possible to the purchase price of whatever you want to buy--just don't forget to account for tax (for instance, the movie I bought was priced at $12.99 CAD but had $1.69 CAD in tax, for a total of $14.68, so getting a $15 CAD gift card was just about perfect, resulting in only $0.32 CAD gone to waste.
Another promising option from u/xXiLax is PC Game Supply, but I wasn't able to test it out myself as I already went the Costco Canada route.