{"id":2609,"date":"2010-09-23T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2010-09-23T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:03:09","slug":"itunes-allows-paid-app-downloads-even-though-a-credit-card-they-have-on-file-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2609","title":{"rendered":"iTunes allows paid app downloads even though a credit card they have on file has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found out something pretty interesting today. iTunes allows paid app downloads even though a credit card they have on file has changed.<\/p>\n

A quick prologue… my corporate AmX card got compromised last week. Apparently a local Chinese restaurant I liked to go to had a dishonest waiter who copied the front and back of my AmX card when they were supposedly running it in back to pay for a business dinner. I saw false charges pop up, called AmX customer service, AmX immediately refunded the charges the thief\/thieves made, and sent a new corporate card overnight UPS. (FYI, AmX corporate customer service is the best<\/em> customer service I’ve ever experienced.)<\/p>\n

So fast forward to today, when I was downloading some business apps from iTunes…

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…and I remembered only after I pressed the YES to the purchase button the credit card iTunes has on file is my no-longer-valid AmX card. But the download for the $14.99 paid app had started anyway!

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The app finished downloading, and I saw it in my app list in iTunes. I went to see if it cleared in my purchase history…

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…and sure enough, there it was. Tax and all.

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I went ahead to the edit payment information button to update the AmX card…

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There were no errors at all in the screens that followed. Only after I had updated my credit card information did iTunes finally say something was wrong.

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“A previous purchase failed to successfully authorize, because the credit card used for that purchase was declined. Please provide working credit-card information and press done to clear the outstanding amount from your account and enable your account to continue purchasing.”<\/p>\n

And at the bottom of the page was a small addendum about the outstanding balance…

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I pressed DONE and that seemed to be it.<\/p>\n

I think it’s kind of strange Apple allows a full app download before a credit card can be confirmed. Shouldn’t the charge amount go through first before the download is authorized? And I wonder what would have happened if I never updated my credit card information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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