HOW TO FULLY FINISH SECURING YOUR NEW GAMERTAG

I have noticed a couple recent issues involving people losing a gamertag because the seller did not remove the account from his/her console and sign in and swap it from the buyer later after the purchase date.

If you purchase a gamertag you want to make sure you FULLY secure it if you do not plan on swapping it. The obvious things need to be done such as verifying no alts on the account, information changes and no linked ID's. A last crucial step is often ignored either by lack of knowledge or just plain laziness. This is the last step, this will remove the account from ALL consoles it has been signed in on and require you to re-download it.

If you ever get this message when signing into the account you NEED to do this step to avoid losing your gamertag. A user can simply sign in and tag swap the name if you do not do this.

The message: "This was last signed in on another console"

1st-Go to www.xbox.com and sign into your account
2nd-click on my account

3rd-the bottom right corner you will see "Xbox 360 Profile Protection" click on that

4th-You will want to click on Require profile download


This will remove the account from all consoles it is on and require you to re-download it.

Hopefully this helps!

Great HQ post, hopefully this will rid scammers from swapping it and help out the newbies

Nice how to should be sticky'd imo thanks for that

Thanks, didn't know about this. Great tip for people.

Great High quality thread that will help and benefit the community. Defiantly worth a sticky good job bro.

Thanks for this, should be pinned

Thanks bro, should be a sticky, it'll help a lot of people out.

Helps alot!!!!!
thanks for making this thread
sticky please

Thanks a lot for this. Wish I would have done this with my other tag.
Anyway, very nice post and it should definitely be pinned.

Very nice thread man! I actually just did this now!

you are welcome guys, apparently everyone but Junior likes this

Lethal said:

you are welcome guys, apparently everyone but Junior likes this

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lol sorry about that I was went and randomly gave every thread 1 star sorry sir and how do you check who rated your thread?

Junior said:

lol sorry about that I was went and randomly gave every thread 1 star sorry sir and how do you check who rated your thread?

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Click on "Thread Rating" it shows who rated your thread.

Cole said:

Click on "Thread Rating" it shows who rated your thread.

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Thanks. Good to know that you rated my thread 1 star.

Junior said:

Thanks. Good to know that you rated my thread 1 star.

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You go around and rate all my threads 1 star so I figured I'd return the favor.

Cole said:

You go around and rate all my threads 1 star so I figured I'd return the favor.

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That's because I thought I bound to rate the persons thread if I rated everyones #YOLO

Junior said:

That's because I thought I bound to rate the persons thread if I rated everyones #YOLO

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LOL Junior I was just messing with you to be honest because we are the biggest tag whores on this site, funny thing about YOLO next you hear someone say YOLO prove it and shoot them in the face.

Lethal said:

LOL Junior I was just messing with you to be honest because we are the biggest tag whores on this site, funny thing about YOLO next you hear someone say YOLO prove it and shoot them in the face.

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yea I say YOLO because it's dumb as fuck and it pisses people off usually and yea we are the biggest GT whores on the site.

Thanks bro this should help me a lot in the future

Beats said:

Thanks bro this should help me a lot in the future

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not a problem! let me know if you have any questions!