"Could not purchase" iTunes Store Error

All i can say is apple is obviously not taking responsibility for this because it has been happening a few years.

For instance

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3705864

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3705864?answerId=17479965022#17479965022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1755529?start=0&tstart=0

And some people noticed strange updates without titles.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3706019?answerId=17480123022#17480123022

There are many others too check them out yourself.

Im having the same issue. Brought a new laptop yesterday and started to use the new "itunes in icloud" to move all my music over to the new laptop and it all of a sudden stop transferring. Ran some test and its saying that "secure connection to itunes store failed". did some research and tried everything from reinstalling, rebooting, some winsock issue, firewall, etc...nothing fixed it...called support, they wanted me to pay 30$ for help, i told them where to go....im getting a lil jacked off, also they just came out for a new itunes update in the past hr or two and they didnt help either....

i had the same problem... can someone from Apple Store reply.... dun want to miss out a lovely friday evening. Ready to be a couch potato!

here's a weird piece of information...because i pre-bought tickets to see the avengers movie, i received an email with a coupon for a free song from itunes. just for fun, i clicked that link, which brought me to the coupon redemption page, and after i entered the coupon, the song downloaded straight-away!!! so i thought, hey - it's back! but when i go to try downloading another song, or an app, nothing. very strange behavior.

Ditto. Windows XP, Windows 7 and iPhone 4 - all are failing to purchase songs.

Having the exact same problem here. Nothing seems to help.

Just for the sake of having additional confirmation of an issue, I am experiencing the same problem as everyone else. One by one all of my five Apple devices and four PCs running iTunes have failed to connect to iTunes for the purpose of downloading. This occurs over my home network and over the 3G network.

Also, Apple TV is not working.

I am having the same issue here. I tried on iTunes and on our Apple TV

Same here. Can't download apps, can't do any updates. No matter the reset of my iphone, PC, account, etc. It also seems other people can access iTunes/App Store without any problems.

Just wondering, is your ISP Bell or AT&T ?

It might have something to do with the ISP since the store itself doesn't seem to be the problem.

All I can tell is that none of the solutions so far resolved the problem. So it's ''waiting'' mode.

Happening to me as well (in Seattle), from both PCs and iPhone 4. Diagnostics report connection to apple is okay, but connection to apple store is failing. Clearly there is a problem with the Apple store's SSL service or certificate. Or perhaps it's a DST issue -- they seem to have a lot of trouble with that concept.

Is it too much to ask a company worth half a trillion dollars to put up an iTMS status page, like www.apple.com/itunes/status/, to save us all from having to do all this troubleshooting for nothing? Cmon, Apple - a little user support here. This isn't rocket science.

Update...now I can't even get the store to open at all! Is this happening to anyone else here? Diagnostics still says it connects succesfully, but obviously it isn't because I'm staring at nothing. Awesome. This affects my phone and everything, please can someone respond and tell us what to do!

yeah im another receiving that **** message. i just want to buy some freaking cd's

Yup same here it works again. But had to go through some strange security thing.