[nufan]

i may be mistaken here but i dont think that option will work for you either. Before i got my xbox i made my account at xbox.com. Then when i went to associate it on my xbox i was not given any option to get my 1 month free of gold. It was a silver account and my only option was to pay to start the gold service. So i had to make a new account straight from my xbox to get the 1 month free, and like Scot said you had to take it right then and there, couldnt put off using the free 1 month of gold.

I even called MS to see how im meant to get my free month of gold on the tag that i had made at xbox.com, and he said that you have to make the account on the actual xbox to receive that.