Apple iTunes charging procedure TUT TUT

Mancunian

I have a young daughter who lives abroad and have just bought her an ipad.

I set up an iTunes account and attached a pre-paid visa card which I topped up with £10.

I was amazed yesterday that Apple don't seem to physically authorise payments for apps each time and she has managed to spend nearly £20.

Obviously this couldnt be charged to the card and the account was stopped until payment -which I have no done.

I had heard before of the fraudulent scheme of buying hacked/stolen accounts with unlimited downloads (until apple notice) - this seems to backup those stories and they don't seem to have acted to stop it.

This seems an amazing procedure for such a large company and wondered what your thoughts were.

robt_2

Do you think it is worth their while to pay card transaction fees for every 69p purchase individually?

liubeliu

iTunes gift card

Gordon_Hose

It's a pain when you buy something and they don't charge it to your card for a week or so. And that's why I removed my card details and started using iTunes cards.

Mancunian

robt wrote: »

Do you think it is worth their while to pay card transaction fees for every 69p purchase individually?

Wow, where did u find that out?

robt_2

Mancunian wrote: »

Wow, where did u find that out?

Find what out?

gjchester

Mancunian wrote: »

This seems an amazing procedure for such a large company and wondered what your thoughts were.

Its not a lot of difference to Sky where if you buy a movie it doesn't check/ charge your account immedialy, The boxes have a credit limit they will go to before they have to connect other wise it tells the servers next time it connects. Or a shop where they only authorise card transactions above a certain amount.

In that vein it could be in app purchases that are only synced when the device syncs.

Worst you can do is steal £20 of Apps, and if the bills not paid the account marked as delinquent and the next time you sync apps could be removed or disabled.

If something was authorised each and every time it would slow the system down, Apple choose to adopt a model where they only check every so often.

Their business model and their choice.

Mancunian

robt wrote: »

Find what out?

Sorry, mis-read thought u mean they paid 69p each time someone bought an app.

Thanks for all your comments, waiting for some official comments from Apple support, will post any info.

uzubairu

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

It's a pain when you buy something and they don't charge it to your card for a week or so. And that's why I removed my card details and started using iTunes cards.

Use the prepaid credit card to purchase iTunes card and then apply it to the account.

I too got tired of the payments showing up days later and used my credit card to purchase the iTunes cards (on multi-buy offers) which are now credit to my account.
I can also see my balance whenever I log in.