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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by kumarvvr on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:45AM (#23987973)
It will not cost them money, per se. Apple is keeping money from you.
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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by wlesieutre on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:46AM (#23987987)
Per the linked twitter thread:

> Yeah Apple keeps their 30% no matter what. So if someone refunds an app they get the whole amount back, Apple keeps 30%, and the developer has to cover that extra amount

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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by jaywalk on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:47AM (#23988012)
Seems like a pointless technicality. If somebody refunds my $100 app and Apple "keeps" $30 from me, that means the next person who buys my app only earns me $40. I've lost $30 either way.
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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by munk-a on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:27PM (#23988572)
Or if the same person buys the app again later (maybe using a different Apple ID) then you lose 60$ out of the money they would have paid for your app - to view it a different way.
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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by 0x0 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:10PM (#23989812)
If your app costs $100, and you only sell 100 copies, and they all ask for a refund, then at the end of the month you owe Apple $3000?
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