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Buy All Button Missing from My Wishlist - Answer as to WHY!

Okay everyone that has been frustrated....or rather HALF of everyone, I finally got an answer from Apple (after being on hold on/off for just under an hour), as to WHY the Buy All button feature was removed from the My Wishlist when wanting to purchase ALL of your items in one purchase, as opposed to each item being purchased and charged separately to your payment account (i.e. debit/credit card, or checking/savings account).


The reason WHY is because the other half of everyone was frustrated that they were accidentally clicking on the "Buy All" button when it was in iTunes, and buying all of their Wishlist items when they in reality wanted to just buy a select few (be it one or many...but NOT all). So after listening to the complaints of the userbase and apparently my definition of half is in reality the majority, Apple removed the Buy All button.


So there you have it! I feel a sense of relief knowing why and the explanation of it. Now being a computer programmer myself, I'm sure there is some way Apple can design it so that it would prevent the user from accidentally buying all by providing another prompt or perhaps a checkbox option in some "Settings" environment where the user can toggle on/off this feature. Any those are my thoughts and that should be the "feedback" to Apple. Not just to put it back but put it back in this way so the entire user base can be satisified.


Thoughts?


P.S. - Apple assured me that if I were to buy the items separately (assuming done within the timeframe, my guess of a few minutes, assuming you don't have a million WishList items) that they still will show up on my credit card as one charge. I beg to differ and told them that I still got separate charges.


Hope that my reseach helps alleviate everyone's concerns.

Posted on Feb 9, 2014 3:17 PM

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Sep 24, 2016 9:10 PM in response to jaramill

I too would like to buy everything on my wish list having spent a hour or so constructing it

but I'm not about to go through my 47 songs one by one to buy each one separately

maybe when I have more time

Perhaps a extra step for the buy all button would have been better

such as

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BY ALL THIS FOR $XXX.XX

well maybe not that exact wording but you get the idea

Buy All Button Missing from My Wishlist - Answer as to WHY!

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