All gone pear shaped for Apple billing in the UK

[zlinuk]

My pre order went through ok at 8.02, paid using Apple Pay and have just had a Card Declined message from Apple.

My card issuer told me that not only had my card not been declined but Apple had not requested the payment. He said that the issue was on Apples side and that they had received 100's of calls this morning from some very angry people in the same situation.

I logged in to my Apple account and tried to pay with a different card and got the same result.

I rang Apple customer services, went through the automated service and then got dumped because the queue was full.

On the upside the order for my iPhone X leather case went through ok.

I truly magical experience all round.

 

[zlinuk]

Just to draw a line under this, there is apparently an Apple imposed upper limit when making payments with Apple Pay (at least in the UK) and the cost of the iPhone X is above this limit. Finally got through to customer services and paid using the same credit card.