App price changes undone?!

Discussion in 'Public Game Developers Forum' started by Carlos, Aug 27, 2012.

  1. Carlos

    Carlos Well-Known Member

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    Yesterday I've made AnyMoney free - however the app gets automatically reverted back to paid, and the original price is shown. I checked in iTunesConnect, and the app was still free. I quickly switched again between paid and free and resaved, and after a while the app showed up as free again in the AppStore. However, this did not last long: after a few hours the app is again $1.99.

    I think this is probably some - hopefully temporary - issue with the AppStore.

    So have you noticed lately that price changes are undone automatically? If yes, is there any solution for this issue? I am going to report this to Apple, but first I'd like to see whether others are also experiencing similar artifacts recently.

    Btw, would you please doublecheck on your iDevice and/or Mac whether AnyMoney shows up with the $1.99 pricetag instead of being free? Thanks in advance! Maybe it's just some caching problem on my side...

    App info is currently processing and/or the app is not yet fully available for sale on the US App Store.
     
  2. Royce

    Royce Well-Known Member

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    Showing as free for me.
     
  3. Carlos

    Carlos Well-Known Member

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    Thanks. However, as you see, this is not the case anymore. The price went back in the AppStore to $1.99 without any intervention from my side. In iTunes Connect I still see it being free...

    I've contacted Apple, this seems to a be some database issue.
     
  4. jeremy.provost

    jeremy.provost Well-Known Member

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    This may be completely unrelated, but I also had a very strange iTunes Connect issue recently. I removed an app for sale from all stores worldwide. A few days later the app was available again in the App Store and was marked as available in all countries worldwide. Super weird.
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  5. Carlos

    Carlos Well-Known Member

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    There is high chance this is the same issue. Have you reported this to Apple? Maybe if more devs complain they fix the issue sooner.
     
  6. picohero

    picohero Well-Known Member

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    This is a weird problem. I'll keep an eye out for it.
     

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