Re:Problems on the Galaxy Store
by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:56AM
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I suspect they might actually have yanked it due to the high rate of refund requests and chargebacks. Not the developer's fault, but not something Apple want to have to deal with.
I usually go with stupid before malevolent, but is this a possible way to launder money? Just have a really hard time believing people are that stupid.
Re:Problems on the Galaxy Store
by margorczynski on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:48AM
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How would you launder money with this approach? The amount of downloads/purchases is verifiable as the whole flow of money from buyer to seller. If I sell it 10 times (10 downloads and 10 wire transactions that cover them) how do I put the unaccounted money into the system?
Buy App Store gift cards for cash.
It's a way of turning "dirty" money (e.g. Apple gift cards sourced through phone scams) into "clean" money (payouts from Apple).
Re:Problems on the Galaxy Store
by doublerabbit on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:29AM
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I just buy domain names on the whim, personally I see them as monopoly cards.
Own a .org, .net and .com of the same URL and your a winner.
Yearly renewal is around €2k and I only use eight :/
The crux was, however, that the developer was totally upfront about what you got for the price and apparently there still were douchebags around forking over the cash to buy "status".
Apple yanked the app due to the publicity. Which I thought was wrong. It didn't violate any App store rules and it was honest and up front in the description of the app.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich