Inadvertent $1500 in app purchase Tap Zoo - warning!

No, few of us defending this app downloaded it. But we have looked at it, and all I can say is: apparently you didn't read paragraph #2.

seems to me much discussion for little progress :(

i can understand the angst over the cost, but what has happened is not illigal as it stands. i would say imoral in that it is named as a childs program, it is alsi dowloaded for 'free', then who ever s hit with additional cost's at astonishing prices.

i do feel that makes it wrong, any app having such an abibilty imho should have more safe guards put in place, but then phone companies have done this for years, offering attractive tarrifs but God help you if your not savvy and use it abroad.

microsoft 'live' is not inocent in this, they often offer an introductory 'gold' weekend for £1, but then see fit to roll onto a £6 monthly deduction to contunue gold memnership - which is the most expensive tarrif they have.

no warning this will happen is not shouted in bold type, and in practice a way to harvest credit card details to make these charges as they see fit, having got the initial fee that they claim entittles them ti do so, although the punter was only intending/wanting to spend £1.

to me this tactic of charging extornate prices is being taken to a new more sinster level, what is to stop the vendors who arevtrading within the blue chip highly trusted name of Apple via iTunes from charging £1000 for their DLC?

the above unfortunately won't help the O/P, but i hope serves to make more people aware of what is the legal, if not moral phishing scams.

peraps gamers should unit to push their goverments to legislation to stop this blatent abuse

Yes it says about in app purchases but not that they cost between £10 and £70 !

and apparently you didnt read my post as I said it happened to "a friend" not me

Nah, I knew who you were labeling and so do you.

It is not robbery, blatant or otherwise. Don't want to pay that much money, don't use that app. And yes, as I've said I looked at the original Tap Zoo, said it was too expensive for me and any kid using my iDevices, and didn't buy it. I know others who have it for their kids and they love it, but they do control the in-app purchases to avoid large bills. It is not my place nor yours to decide how much they should charge for the various tokens in the game.

They don't have to tell you how much it costs. If they don't, that's their problem. When I say "you" I meant that generally.

So what price cap would you institute?

Thing is, it's not up to him. And I think that's a good thing.

well it is a game aimed at children, so in app purchases limited to £10 per week would be fine. everything you do in the game requires stars and lots of them, there is no way to earn them in the game, the only way is to buy, but at extortionate prices £10 - £70

And your Psychic powers must be failing, because I wasnt refering to you at all 😝

sois it a case of the foolish beware?

there is a very funny advert if a couple checking out of a hotel, they are asked questions about the view, the bed to each reply of yes the bill is increased, finally he is asked 'did you want a paper clip?' to which he falteringly says No!

if society is be seen to be fair, the populous should be assured a certain level of dececy is the default setting, so restraint and honesty has to be exercised by the organisations who are granted free access to clients funds, not a barage if gliblyworded t&c's.

if you concider many elderly do not trust banks, and that was before this recession caused by them to ave very good reason, if not forth comming then all such transactios including good ones, will be widely mistrusted (as example time share selling is now), and i suggest to a point of damaging manyvcountries economies severely if it is allowed to continue unabaited.

so legal trading yes, in good spirit NO!

Visa/Mastercard get 1.5%.

Don't tell me 30% isn't mostly profit. My God, man, where do you think thses record profits are coming from?

you should set this yourself as the account holder, default maximum pw i'd suggest £20, after that it's password required to accept.

i know many will screen 'nanny state', but it is not it is morals state.

There was nothing about that when the app was downloaded onto the iPhone and no warning when iTunes passed it on to the iPad.

Apple will lose the class action lawsuit--they have already admitted guilt in various ways. IOS 4.3 was supposed to address this issue--it didn't. IOS 5 has fixed it--AFAIK. In some respects, this is no different than some other things Apple has pulled in the past with G5 warranties, etc.

Give it up. Pull your heads out of your Macs and get some fresh air and sunshine.

Apple covers the Visa/Mastercard fees in the 30%, plus accounting ledgers, plus the cost of the server farm, plus the cost of maintenance of the server farm, etc.

They aren't making their record profits from the Apple Store.

Morals has nothing to do with it. Should you also be able to walk through a toy shop and set the prices on toys?

eeeeexactly