Zune Pass in the UK

[Agentred]

Hey everyone

I'm living in the UK and while I can buy prepaid zune points cards on-line, I can't buy zune pass cards

So, how do I use Zunepass without a creditcard? Anyone have any ideas?
I only have two:

1. I pay $45 plus $10 to a generous American zuneboards user, who then logs in to my account and pays for the subscription. I'm assuming this would be safe because credit card details aren't stored.

2. I pay another generous zuneboards user (there are so many!) to visit their local walmart/best buy and buy me a 3 month prepaid card, but I hear these are hard to find.

Anyone have any other ideas? I know there are a lot of UK users so a solution would be killer.

Gracias!

[Bolt]

Another solution would be to make you an e-mail address from inside the US. I'm not sure exactly how that works though. I doubt anyone's going to necessarily pay for your pass, but someone might share or something. I don't have any immediate plans to get one.

[Agentred]

I used one of the workarounds on the forum to get myself a username, and if anyone wants to buy zune points I can direct them to a website which accepts paypal and e-mails you the code. It's the pass which troubles me!

I wouldn't expect anyone to pay for my subscription, they'd be paid in full plus $10! But I can see your point about sharing a subscription, if there's an American Zuner not using the Pass I could pay them to add me to their subscription?

I understand that there are copyright issues, but UK users should not be left out from Zune Pass awesomeness, there has to be a way to beat the system! Tycho at Penny Arcade said it best: " I don't know why people ever, ever try to stop nerds from doing things. It's really the most incredible waste of time."

Keep the ideas coming!

[runtohell121]

try asking your friends that live in US to buy you one? Zune's aren't sold in UK isn't it?

[steve500]

I'd be more than happy to add you to one of my Zune passes - see my signature for details....!

[Agentred]

Jumpin Jiminy, you got PM!

I could ask my friends to buy it, but most of them are busy and I don't wanna hassle them for a favour. At least this way I know someone's paid for their efforts and my conscience is clean.

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Google and download Ultra Reach or Ultra Surf.
Extract and run the program then point your browser to www.zuneoriginals.net

Get the pre-paid cards there and arrange with someone in the USA that can send the code or at least the card to your country.

Remember to get a Windows Live ID with country set in the USA.

Hope you understand this guide much better:
An International Zune User's Guide - Thoughts Media Forums

[Agentred]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

Zune pass is amazing! Many thanks Steve500

[steve500]

Glad it worked out well for you!