the payment card you entered is not valid in the United Kingdom

Is this Apple's business to check does my credit card belong to this country or not? I may have credit cards in dfferent countries and I can use them wherever I want. I can buy salt from the market with this credit card in a completely different country but I cannot buy applications from App Store. This is ridiculous.

If it is a bug, just fix it. If it is a kind of a "security" policy, I have to say that: "it is ********!"

Hi ...

The issue is that your credit or debit card credentials must be associated with the same country where you reside.

"Although you can browse the iTunes Store in any country without being signed in, you can only purchase content from the iTunes Store for your own country. This is enforced via the billing address associated with your credit card or other payment method that you use with the iTunes Store, rather than your actual geographic location."

From here > The Complete Guide to Using the iTunes Store | iLounge Article

Hi there,

I am in the UK, always been in the UK, and just trying to set up a new apple account and have exactly the same error message. I have tried 3 different card and all say that they are not valid in the uk, when they are. I wonder if this is a problem somewhere with Apple?

Have the same problem in Slovakia - Credit card, account and billing address all in Slovakia. Spent hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars purchasing apps, suddenly all of my cards are "not valid for this store". Sent support request to Apple, called apple support. None of them helped. Can't say how mad I am.

I'm getting the same error message here in Canada. Tried logging into my account, it said I needed to veryify my account information. Now it's telling me the card that I've always used for iTunes is invalid. Keep getting the message "The payment card you entered is not valid in Canada". Very frustrating.

Hello Apple! Do something! And do it quick ... please.

The same issue in Czech Republic, few days ago everything worked well. Seems the troubles are on Apple side.

The same in Poland. A few hours ago my credit card worked fine and now it's not valid in Poland.

Tried to set all accounts to payment method = none and the re-enter the card. Not working. Just to save you time...

The same issue in Brazil. Today morning I bought in Itunes and now I´m receiving a message of invalid card.

Another here, my card is unchanged for over a year registered with Itunes/App Store and purchased games using it just yesterday.

Just attempted to subscribe to Itunes match service and it keeps taking me to the payment card page in Itunes to update my card details, they are all correct but this message keeps coming up.

UK based all my life, never had a foreign account or cards on my account ever...

Oddly I can purchase from my Iphone4 and the iPad with no such issues with cards being declined.

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Same problem here, I get the feeling that there might have been a security breach in iTunes today..... 😮

***....I just tried to buy a app on my iPhone only to get the following error message saying "The payment Card Is Not Vaild In The United Kingdom. Please provide a valid pay,ment card for the United Kingdom, now i am ike confused to why it si doing this, as I have been using this card for a whileto purchase apps, ok I had my iPhone 4S replaced earlier on today, but there is No reason to why it is doung this, as my computer has re registered the iPhone as it only takes a matter of minutes when you `st plug it in, but I am like out of idea's to why this is happening though?

I am guessing it is a fault with Apple then???