Impossible Buying Credit on App Store
Is it just me, or are other people terribly annoyed with how difficult it is to purchase App Store/iTunes credit via the App Store app on the iPod Touch/iPhone?
1. Ideally, first what I would like to do is simply "buy credit". I like having credit on the store so if I see an App I want to buy, I have a pool of credit available to buy that app. I would like to go to a section of the App Store app and say "buy credit" and enter my credit card/debit card number to do a once-and-done purchase of credit. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of driving to a store to buy an iTunes gift card. I just want to do it online. But nowhere does it let you do this, either on the App Store app or on iTunes itself on my computer. I did not want to tie a credit card to my account; I wanted to have "credit" on the store.
2. Since #1 does not work, I tried a second option, which I really did not want to do but tried anyway. I enter a credit card number to tie it to my account. In essence, I gave in and tried to do it their way. But that didn't work either. It won't accept the 3-digit number I am trying to enter from the back of my debit card. It fails, both on iTunes and on the App Store app. Grrrrrr.....
3. So now I go to the store and buy a gift card (which I have done in the past but find inconvenient and wasteful to the environment). But I do it on the way to work, where I do NOT have iTunes installed on my computer. I want to be able to enter the gift card number via my iPod...such as through the App Store app. But **** it, it is like pulling teeth to figure out how to do this. Is it impossible to redeem credit through the App Store app? Is it only possible to do this on iTunes.
I love Apple, the Mac and the iPod to death, but this is the most annoying thing in the world. Why can't Apple make it 500% easier to buy App Store credit?
1. Ideally, first what I would like to do is simply "buy credit". I like having credit on the store so if I see an App I want to buy, I have a pool of credit available to buy that app. I would like to go to a section of the App Store app and say "buy credit" and enter my credit card/debit card number to do a once-and-done purchase of credit. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of driving to a store to buy an iTunes gift card. I just want to do it online. But nowhere does it let you do this, either on the App Store app or on iTunes itself on my computer. I did not want to tie a credit card to my account; I wanted to have "credit" on the store.
2. Since #1 does not work, I tried a second option, which I really did not want to do but tried anyway. I enter a credit card number to tie it to my account. In essence, I gave in and tried to do it their way. But that didn't work either. It won't accept the 3-digit number I am trying to enter from the back of my debit card. It fails, both on iTunes and on the App Store app. Grrrrrr.....
3. So now I go to the store and buy a gift card (which I have done in the past but find inconvenient and wasteful to the environment). But I do it on the way to work, where I do NOT have iTunes installed on my computer. I want to be able to enter the gift card number via my iPod...such as through the App Store app. But **** it, it is like pulling teeth to figure out how to do this. Is it impossible to redeem credit through the App Store app? Is it only possible to do this on iTunes.
I love Apple, the Mac and the iPod to death, but this is the most annoying thing in the world. Why can't Apple make it 500% easier to buy App Store credit?
iPod Touch 2nd Gen, Mac OS X (10.6)
