Picture this. I’m eagerly waiting to get my hands on my measly wages for the week and take them out drinking with me. I get to a cash point - insufficient funds. What the f**k?! I check my account and I’m skint. Why? Because of another sting from an axis of evil we’ve all been in contact with.

Microsoft. The thieving, sneaky, back-stabbing, greedy, sadistic, betraying, disloyal pigs looted my account for another subscription of XBOX Live…that thing I couldn’t afford to pay anymore since my router at my place in Lincoln won’t support all the features.

I naively assumed that they wouldn’t take out my money seeing as the card that was registered to pay for the said subscription didn’t exist anymore. However, I totally forgot that I’d registered my other card to buy Live Points to buy such arcade jewels as Geometry Wars and Marble Blast Ultra. So, being the hulking thoughtless machine this limb of the Xbox Live payment system is, they robbed the dusty coffers of my student account to feed themselves another forty quid! I am so angry right now.

In my rage I swore a lot, swung my clenched fists around in tight circles and jogged on the spot with a face knotted up like a constipated lemon. I went straight to my dormant 360, fired it up and attempted to remove any trace of card details to stop this from ever happening again.

But I couldn’t.

When it comes to electronic sales management, this company are nothing short of con artists. Ignore the colourful interface of their website, with the airbrushed faces of a bunch of goons holding various Xbox-related tech. These folks are back-street hustlers gambling with the loyalty we’ve so happily handed over to them.

After this I did a bit of good old fashioned research. However, what I found was either serendipity or just another round of being repeatedly thwacked in the plums with an M$ branded swag bag.

According to Unscripted 360.com, Microsoft have only begun allowing people to wipe their card details from their books by calling them. Translation: squeeze out MORE money from your wallet just to sort this out.

Piss off, I’m emailing. I’m a poverty stricken student. Eat it.