No money will be deducted from the App Store purchases? That's wishful thinking, it just doesn't show up in real time

On November 21, the three-day Apple 1 yuan promotion finally had an independent display page on the Apple App Store. Although Apple officials did not announce the specific details of the event, it can be seen from the event page that the participating apps also have a limited time and support not only UnionPay payments, but also Visa, Master Card, etc.

However, many netizens reported in the Apple mobile phone discussion community that they did not receive any feedback on the deduction after binding their UnionPay cards to purchase software, and after checking the relevant bank website, they found that the balance had not changed. In response, Tencent Technology called UnionPay, the relevant bank customer service and Apple technical support to make inquiries.

UnionPay told Tencent Technology that in this transaction, the three parties agreed that the system would only deduct the fee if the user spent more than 39 yuan within three days, and notify the user via SMS or WeChat; if the consumption did not exceed 39 yuan, the system would deduct the fee on the third day. Unlike credit cards, savings cards do not have the problem of freezing funds after prepaying 1 yuan.

A customer service representative of a bank also confirmed to Tencent Technology that payment is not deducted according to the number of times, but the order is generated centrally by the system. However, as for the specific details of the process, the customer service representative said that they would have to ask Apple before deciding whether to make it public.

Apple technical support said that there is a situation where a prepaid fee of 1 yuan is paid first on the credit card in order to ensure that the credit card can be used, and the deducted 1 yuan will be returned to the user at the end of the month. However, Apple technical support did not respond to why the user did not receive the deduction information.

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