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iOS Anyone Get Paid yet?

detz said:
Damn you, 14th and still nothing. Payments for Jan should start rolling in next week and they still don't December done.
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I don't know why does a Wire transfer take so long. I can transfer money to someone and the longest it would take is 2-3 Days. Not 45 Days!
 
My guess is we'll all have them in our account on the 16th. Sometimes a wire transfer can take a day or two, and since the 15th falls on a Sunday, it could be until the following Tuesday that they all are there.
 
forcesteeler said:
I don't know why does a Wire transfer take so long. I can transfer money to someone and the longest it would take is 2-3 Days. Not 45 Days!
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For the 800000th time, there is clearly a lot of extra work behind the scenes beyond just wiring money to one person. There may have even been extra work in the case of December, since it would be the last set of payments for the tax year.

Or if we all agree that Apple is a big stupid money hoarding monster, would you stop whining?
 
admanimal said:
For the 800000th time, there is clearly a lot of extra work behind the scenes beyond just wiring money to one person. There may have even been extra work in the case of December, since it would be the last set of payments for the tax year.

Or if we all agree that Apple is a big stupid money hoarding monster, would you stop whining?
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Right..... Just like it take 3 weeks to review 1 application!!.;)
 
forcesteeler said:
Right..... Just like it take 3 weeks to review 1 application!!.;)
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If they were only reviewing one application every 3 weeks, that would make sense. But since they are accepting a couple hundred a week, your argument fails to land.
 
Jeremy1026 said:
If they were only reviewing one application every 3 weeks, that would make sense. But since they are accepting a couple hundred a week, your argument fails to land.
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Yeah but your suppose to have enough employees to fill the request of your customers. Apple should hire more people.

Take example you order a MACPRO computer from apple and they ship it via Fedex on 2/15/09 and you don't get it until March,15, 2009 and FedEx is saying "We receive millions of packages a day" so that's why your package took a whole month to get to your doorstep.

You can understand there argument but you would think Fedex will hire more people to speed up the process. It should not take a whole month to ship a package. Just like it should not take 45 days to get paid or 3-4 weeks just to get your application approved. :rolleyes:
 
forcesteeler said:
Yeah but your suppose to have enough employees to fill the request of your customers. Apple should hire more people.

Take example you order a MACPRO computer from apple and they ship it via Fedex on 2/15/09 and you don't get it until March,15, 2009 and FedEx is saying "We receive millions of packages a day" so that's why your package took a whole month to get to your doorstep.

You can understand there argument but you would think Fedex will hire more people to speed up the process. It should not take a whole month to ship a package. Just like it should not take 45 days to get paid or 3-4 weeks just to get your application approved. :rolleyes:
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Fine, Apple hires more people, and to help with that cost, they take 50% of every sale instead of 30%. Is that worth it for the extra 2 weeks to go blow your money at the candy store?
 
Where does it say they have until 45 days to get it to you? I'm curious, I'm probably going to call tomorrow so I want to know where in the contract it says that.
 
detz said:
Where does it say they have until 45 days to get it to you? I'm curious, I'm probably going to call tomorrow so I want to know where in the contract it says that.
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3.5 Upon collection of any amounts from any end-user as the price for any Licensed Application delivered to that end-user hereunder, Apple shall deduct the full amount of its commission with respect to that Licensed Application, and any taxes collected by Apple under Section 3.2 hereof, and shall remit to You, or issue a credit in Your favor, as the case may be, the remainder of those prices on a monthly basis, no later than forty-five (45) days following the close of the month in which that amount was received by Apple. Each remittance by Apple under this Section 3.5 shall be accompanied by a sales report in sufficient detail to permit You to verify the accuracy and completeness of the amount remitted by Apple. You hereby acknowledge and agree that Apple shall be entitled to a commission, in accordance with this Section 3.5 on the delivery of any Licensed Application to any end-user, even if Apple is unable to collect the price for that Licensed Application from that end-user. In the event that the purchase price received by Apple from any end-user for any Licensed Application is in a currency other than the remittance currency agreed between Apple and You, the purchase price for that Licensed Application shall be converted to the remittance currency, and the amount to be remitted by Apple to You shall be determined, in accordance with an exchange rate fixed for the Delivery Period, as reflected in Exhibit C attached hereto.
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Here. Schedule 2 of the contract.
 
CarlosH said:
Here. Schedule 2 of the contract.
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The key to that is the part after the bold,

"in which that amount was received by Apple"

So they can claim they didn't receive if from users for what ever reason until yesterday so they still have 45 days. Damn lawyers and their tricky writing.
 
detz said:
The key to that is the part after the bold,

"in which that amount was received by Apple"

So they can claim they didn't receive if from users for what ever reason until yesterday so they still have 45 days. Damn lawyers and their tricky writing.
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Yeah, you may be right. I am waiting today, if I don't see nothing, I will call them tomorrow.
 
detz said:
"in which that amount was received by Apple"
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The monthly financial reports document how much Apple claims they received for each application they sell. There's already a lag of a few days between the totals of the number of units in the download reports and the totals in the financial reports.

Basically, if you are a developer with a paid app in the store, you agreed to a contract letting Apple keep your 70% share of the purchase price for 45 days. How many of you pay your phone bill, rent, mortgage, etc. before the due date?
 
firewood said:
Basically, if you are a developer with a paid app in the store, you agreed to a contract letting Apple keep your 70% share of the purchase price for 45 days. How many of you pay your phone bill, rent, mortgage, etc. before the due date?
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And of course during the 45 days before Apple processes payments they're earning interest on it. So there's basically no economic incentive other than contract law to encourage Apple to behave any differently.
 
detz said:
Where does it say they have until 45 days to get it to you? I'm curious, I'm probably going to call tomorrow so I want to know where in the contract it says that.
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I received this email today:

Hello,

The EUR and GBP payments were wired on Thursday and Friday respectively. They should fund in your account on Monday, or Tuesday at the latest, depending on your bank's wire policies.
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So there is hope.
 
Don't forget fellas (and ladies) today is Presidents Day, just about every US bank is closed, therefore no wires will be processed today.
 
still nothing, I think the people at Apple have no idea what they're talking about.
 
forcesteeler said:
Still didn't get my EU payments. its Day 47

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So I sent off an email and I'm being talking to two people and this is what I've learned. They send payments and if they fail they don't fix the problem and resend they fix it and wait for the next batch. So, if the payments failed last month for these countries then we have to wait until this month to see if they go through. She told me it's a trial and error since there are so many factors, if a payment fails they have to find out why and try to fix it, they have 58,000 accounts to do this with so they can't just fix and resend it off. Makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is AUD failed(she sent me the record) but she said that GBP and EUR were sent on the 10th with no issues yet I didn't get them. So this tell me that they might not know there is an issue therefor they can't fix it so it's important that you keep track of everything and contact them if you don't get the payment. They are now going to look at what happened to those payments and try to fix them for this months batch process.
 
Because of the weekend and holiday, I am going to give Apple an extra day.

If I don't get my money by tomorrow from EU/UK/AU, I am going to start shooting off emails to Apple.

Ethan
 
I think the transfer failures can be pretty sporadic and for no apparent reason, too. Normally I get payments for all regions just fine, but one month I missed one (can't remember which) and sure enough next month I got it along with the income from the following month (yes it was above $250 both months). So it's not like it's because your bank info is incorrect or anything necessarily...something mysterious just goes wrong somewhere.
 
detz, what's the number can reach to Apple's USA internal people? Thanks

detz said:
So I sent off an email and I'm being talking to two people and this is what I've learned. They send payments and if they fail they don't fix the problem and resend they fix it and wait for the next batch. So, if the payments failed last month for these countries then we have to wait until this month to see if they go through. She told me it's a trial and error since there are so many factors, if a payment fails they have to find out why and try to fix it, they have 58,000 accounts to do this with so they can't just fix and resend it off. Makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is AUD failed(she sent me the record) but she said that GBP and EUR were sent on the 10th with no issues yet I didn't get them. So this tell me that they might not know there is an issue therefor they can't fix it so it's important that you keep track of everything and contact them if you don't get the payment. They are now going to look at what happened to those payments and try to fix them for this months batch process.
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