“Paypal users were mistakenly charged as much as $4,000 for Mac OS X Lion software after using the payment service to buy from the Mac App Store,” Nick Farrell reports for TechEye.
“It appears that they have been incorrectly charged for purchasing Mac OS X 10.7 Lion from the Mac App Store numerous times,” Farrell reports. “In one case a user was billed for 122 copies of the software.”
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“The problem seems to lie solely with users who have a PayPal account connected to their iTunes Store account for payments,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider. “Some who contacted PayPal said they were told that the multiple charges were made by the iTunes Store, while Apple has insisted to some that the iTunes Store only charged ones.”
Hughes reports, “Some reported that they have been hit with overdraft fees and other charges because of mistaken multiple charges. Some have also been left waiting days for the refunds to reappear in their PayPal accounts. ‘App Store agents have told me this is now a known issue and Apple is investigating the specific causes,’ user ‘teknikks’ wrote on the Apple forums. ‘So far they can only blame an overload in their automated payment system from all the Lion downloads.'”
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