floogorz wrote its probably a trick code or something to get your hopes then just crush them

it could very well be haha my mate just sent me the code randomly on a message, i tried to redeem and it just kept loading, didn't need live, ms points or owt so just posted it here, someone could have been lucky enough to redeem it and get 12 month membership

Your Friend Probly Stole It The Retail Never Activated It

-eLeVaTiiONz- wrote Source i found for you,
It appears that there may be quite a bug going around via the Xbox Live Prepaid Cards. First noted by a disgruntled Xbox forum member last November, the number of people who's encountered the same problem has now ballooned to something that would make you say it's definitely not an isolated case.

Some even had to resort to buying more than just a couple of cards, and still, they get the same error notification. "Can't retrieve information from Xbox Live. Error Code 801613fb." Apparently, that's the dreaded message that the complainants got while attempting to redeem their 12+1 Gold subscription card and 1600/2800 points prepaid cards.

Over at MaxConsole, a complaining patron said in his letter that the most common response that people get when they call customer support (via 1-800-4MY-XBOX) is that the cards weren't activated at the register, hence cannot be redeemed.

Well, Microsoft, it looks like you've got a pretty big bunch of inactivated cards out there. Given that the case may be so, what do you plan to do about it? We do hope Microsoft acts fast on this to avoid any further problems. If these problematic cards still are out there, then they should at least trace them and pull them out or something, so that people won't have to waste their money on a spoiled merchandise.

nice post mate I didn't get far enough to see it was a 12 month membership lol

its a 12 month membership, i tried it on my console, it said it a 12 month, so I clicked on redeem now and it gave me an error message