There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (undefined)

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There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (undefined)

Attempting to purchase and download from App Store off and on over the last several hours. Have checked account details, rebooted twice, closed store and reopened several times. Running 10.6.6 and have even verified details in iTunes to ensure that is not the issue. Also verified Time Zone settings per Apple Support suggestions.

I continue to see the same error each time: There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (undefined)

Anyone else have/solved this problem?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 4, 2011 2:33 PM

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Answer 1

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Muchballyhoo

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Dec 8, 2011 8:55 AM in response to dohertyjt

I had "There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (4)". Once I signed out of the App Store and the iTunes store and signed in again, everything was okay. I suspect for me the problem had something to do with recently changing the email address associated with my account. It seemed like I was still signed in under an old email address.

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Dah•veed

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Feb 5, 2011 10:37 AM in response to dohertyjt

Your issues may be in the iTunes Store account. Quit the MAS and Open iTunes. Sign into your iTunes account and there may be a new Terms for your to agree to. Also, at the bottom of your account info page reset the notifications.

Dah•veed

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Steph_za

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Feb 5, 2011 12:49 PM in response to dohertyjt

It seems the link to certain "featured" apps are broken.

I was looking for Ommwriter, I clicked from the full app description page and got an "There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (undefined)"

I went to Productivity in categories. looked for my app there and it works.

To be short don't buy from the full page. buy it from the small boxes in categories

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Answer 4

Jul 27, 2012 7:43 AM in response to dohertyjt

Guys I did it!

(sorry my english)

The problem was after when I tried few times buy an app. It seems the credit card was blocked. I changed the card and it worked again. Or if you can't change the card just wait for a few days. Maybe a week maybe a little bit more or less.

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Answer 5

Aug 1, 2012 12:26 PM in response to dohertyjt

I'm not sure if this is what fixed it, but I went in an changed my iTunes payment preference to pay by paypal. Last night my credit card had been declined because my bank doesn't authorized large transactions from iTunes in the middle of the night (don't they know when I am most likely to be messing around on the computer?). I read in another post that changing the credit card helped. So I guess changing to paypal helps too.

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acon234

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Feb 6, 2011 6:32 AM in response to dohertyjt

I finally got this to work as well. Apparently it definitely matters which link you hit in the store to get a successful download. The app I wanted happened to work under the "top charts" link, then in the listing on the right hand side of the page. The app store is obviously still very buggy and not flushed out yet. If you "hold it like this," then it works.

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Answer 7

Feb 7, 2011 1:26 PM in response to dohertyjt

Got this working but for me it required a combination of the two methods mentioned on here. Firstly Quit MAS, go to iTunes, sign out, quit iTunes, open MAS, try again. And then secondly, search for the app and click the small buy link next to the icon name - featured items would not work even after the iTunes account log-out.

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Feb 7, 2011 4:27 PM in response to dohertyjt

I am having this problem too. I've updated software, nothing is working.

HELP

This is extremely frustrating Apple, fix your programs.

Ok Finally got it to work by signing out of iTunes quitting then signing out of MAS quitting reopening signing in again searching and hitting buy on the little icon.

Regardless, it is still extremely annoying and Apple needs to take care of this glitch pronto.

Message was edited by: ospeacexo

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Answer 9

Feb 6, 2011 4:11 PM in response to dohertyjt

I received the same error when trying to buy Call of Duty from an advertisement link in the App Store. When I searched for the game under categories I was able to buy the game without a problem.

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Feb 4, 2011 5:27 PM in response to dohertyjt

ok, so I don't know what I did, but I started downloading this "combo update for 10.6.6" and as its downloading, I went in and tried again and it allowed me to purchase and download the app and now my purchase history is back. Sorry if it doesn't help anyone, but heres the link for the combo update.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349

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Answer 11

Jul 3, 2012 4:21 AM in response to dohertyjt

I had this for a while - turns out 90 days. It was because my iMac was associated with a different Apple ID, which I then could not change for 90 days. Once I changed it to the correct ID this error went away.

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ehmjay

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Feb 7, 2011 12:13 PM in response to SteviesFanboy

FishComputer wrote:
Quit MAS, go to iTunes, sign out, quit iTunes, open MAS, try again

This worked for me!

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Answer 13

Jan 10, 2012 7:33 PM in response to SteviesFanboy

Thanks! Quit MAS, open itunes, sign out and launch MAS --- WORKED

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Answer 14

Dec 31, 2012 10:54 AM in response to Muchballyhoo

Signing out of both iTunes and MAS... and then signing back in again in MAS solved my problem!

For me, I was not able to purchase new apps or update existing ones.

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Feb 6, 2011 4:58 AM in response to Finbinhot

I tried this approach going through categories to no success (German Store says: "Ihre Anfrage konnte nicht abgeschlossen werden. Im App Store ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Bitte versuchen Sie es zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt erneut. (undefined)").

Amazingly I tried purchasing OmmWriter, as well. Maybe it's out of stock? 😉
Amazingly also, this problem only has surfaced within the last two days...

Hello-ho Apple, the fanboys wanna buy but can't!

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