X Box 360, Is Going Online Free Of Charge And Can I Remove My Credit Card Details?

[mk1975]

i dont know anything about x box.
we bought xbox 360 for sons birthday and had 1 month gold membership free, when hubby tried to add the voucher for 1 month free he couldnt do it so we thought we first need to put credit card details.
im concerned though, my boy is 8 and i wouldnt want him to pay for downloading games .
is there any way to remove my credit card details, also i now know that you need to sigh in first to xbox and i changed the password so son doesnt know it, i guess without a password he cant do anything?
and maybe a silly question, but now xbox has internet connected to it, going online or "live" is it free without him signing on? thank you.

[Tuvok]

I helped friends activate a voucher for their son's xbox.

Turns out it needed a microsoft email address eg. hotmail etc.

[mk1975]

thanks tuvok, yes it asked for an email address and we put down mine, and later on i changed my mail adress's pasword hoping that he wont be able to sign in if he doesnt know the password. i havent received any confirmation mail from xbox that we signed on or entered the credit card details. is that the norm? and going live, is it free of charge, i found out he can listen to music on the xbox and even watch movies??

[Tuvok]

All I know is that we created a hotmail account for the boy and put his date of birth in.

Then we found that we needed a parental acount as well - both had to be microsoft related.