Normal for Itunes to take R7 off your credit card?

Belix · Post by **Belix** » 24 Sep 2008, 13:19

Hi folks
Downloaded Itunes the other day and signed up. As part of the signup it askes for credit card details. Next thing I see a R7 charge to Itunes on my credit card. Is this normal?
perhaps I should have read those terms and conditions after all...

Belix · Post by **Belix** » 24 Sep 2008, 13:36

Nevermind...found it on their website:

Apple wrote:Like most merchants, iTunes places a $1 authorization hold to verify that your credit card is active when you update your billing information. This is not an actual charge and the bank will remove the hold.

Don't know of any other vendor doing that, but hey...

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 24 Sep 2008, 13:37

I'm guessing your registered at the itunes store?

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 24 Sep 2008, 13:37

Lol I just logged in to tell you that. Paypal and Google does the same.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Sep 2008, 14:16

Hold on a sec... is iTunes available in SA now?!

EDIT:

Yeah, i thought this was wrong somehow.

Purchases from the iTunes Store are available only in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 24 Sep 2008, 14:20

Yep, the Itunes Store has come to SA.

edit: There was a big announcement on the frontpage of this forum, a month or 2 back.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 24 Sep 2008, 14:23

That is bullocks! Do they give you like 2 free tracks in exchange for the R7 charge?
Imagine 4 million+ users all charged R7 just to see if the account works! OMG?!

Yeah I think I'll buy a CD instead.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 24 Sep 2008, 14:25

Frozenfireside wrote:That is bullocks! Do they give you like 2 free tracks in exchange for the R7 charge?
Imagine 4 million+ users all charged R7 just to see if the account works! OMG?!

Yeah I think I'll buy a CD instead.

I'm pretty sure you get that $1 back as credit to use towards a purchase. That's how it worked with my paypal account.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 24 Sep 2008, 14:28

AAAAh. Ok. That's fine then.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Sep 2008, 14:39

Prime wrote:Yep, the Itunes Store has come to SA.

edit: There was a big announcement on the frontpage of this forum, a month or 2 back.

Any reason why it's not listen on the actual iTunes page then?

Can anyone here confirm that you've bought music from iTunes (legally)?

Straight from the itunes page.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 24 Sep 2008, 15:04

Apple iTunes store in South Africa!

Churned out on July 11th, 2008

Johannesburg - Those people that upgraded to or downloaded the latest version of Apple’s iTunes software on Thursday would have been pleasantly surprised to see that South Africa now has its own iTunes store.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Sep 2008, 15:08

WiK1d wrote:
Apple iTunes store in South Africa!

Churned out on July 11th, 2008

Johannesburg - Those people that upgraded to or downloaded the latest version of Apple’s iTunes software on Thursday would have been pleasantly surprised to see that South Africa now has its own iTunes store.

Gosh i hate it when stuff is so inconsistent. Why don't Apple update their frikken site...

Thanks dude

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 24 Sep 2008, 15:09

DAE_JA_VOO, Coz its Apple mate

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Sep 2008, 17:07

lol

Okay, now i don't know if i'm just being dumb or what, but i can't find how to buy music in iTunes. I downloaded and installed the (60MB) application, and all i can browse/buy is iPhone apps.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 24 Sep 2008, 18:03

Maybe you wanna read the report:

Pre-empting the release of the long-anticipated iPhone on local shores, the local iTunes “app” store currently only offers the software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. No music or video content is available through the store.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Sep 2008, 22:24

So... there is a local iTunes store, but you can't frikken buy anything that will be remotely useful from it. Wow, iPhone apps. That would be great if the iPhone was actually LOCALLY AVAILABLE.

Gosh... the guys at apple deserve a kick in the pants.

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 24 Sep 2008, 22:35

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:So... there is a local iTunes store, but you can't frikken buy anything that will be remotely useful from it. Wow, iPhone apps. That would be great if the iPhone was actually LOCALLY AVAILABLE.

Gosh... the guys at apple deserve a kick in the pants.

The Iphone is supposed to be available locally! I know people who have them.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 24 Sep 2008, 23:01

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:So... there is a local iTunes store, but you can't frikken buy anything that will be remotely useful from it. Wow, iPhone apps. That would be great if the iPhone was actually LOCALLY AVAILABLE.

Gosh... the guys at apple deserve a kick in the pants.

Which it is, saw the advert 2 days ago at a Vodacom store

Sauce

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Sep 2008, 23:49

Prime wrote:
DAE_JA_VOO wrote:So... there is a local iTunes store, but you can't frikken buy anything that will be remotely useful from it. Wow, iPhone apps. That would be great if the iPhone was actually LOCALLY AVAILABLE.

Gosh... the guys at apple deserve a kick in the pants.

The Iphone is supposed to be available locally! I know people who have them.

Supposed to be, yes, but it isn't.

WiK1d wrote:
DAE_JA_VOO wrote:So... there is a local iTunes store, but you can't frikken buy anything that will be remotely useful from it. Wow, iPhone apps. That would be great if the iPhone was actually LOCALLY AVAILABLE.

Gosh... the guys at apple deserve a kick in the pants.
Which it is, saw the advert 2 days ago at a Vodacom store

Sauce

Did you even read your link?

That's a pre-order form. Maybe you didn't see the nice little COMING SOON text. Go back and check.

The iPhone is apparently being released on friday though. I'm quite amped for that. Once the hype around the G1 has cleared, i'll get one of the two. I still need to research them a bit though.

Moses · Post by **Moses** » 25 Sep 2008, 04:57

There are lots of stupid people on this forum. Whining all the time without bothering to do any research.
Yes, it's just an App store, apps can used on both the iPhone and iPod touch - which has been in SA for ages.

DeathStrike · Post by **DeathStrike** » 25 Sep 2008, 09:14

lol. so he downloaded it for nothing then?

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 25 Sep 2008, 10:38

DeathStrike wrote:lol. so he downloaded it for nothing then?

While moses is correct, it's still dumb. That means that the iTunes store is only good for Touch owners.

And yeah. I downloaded it for nothing.

thealluseless · Post by **thealluseless** » 25 Sep 2008, 13:10

That would be great if the iPhone was actually LOCALLY AVAILABLE.

the iphone 3g is available from 12 tonight, i know because i have seen the stock, here is the great news, vodacom cannot confirm pricing yet......

it will only be available on contract for now, off contract towards the end of the year. What a crock

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