My wife managed to get an iPhone 7 for launch date, she opted to pay with Apple Pay through Halifax and the payment is showing as declined. She spoke with Halifax and they have no record of it being attempted and said the payment should be fine. She has tried multiple times but we keep getting 'Authorization failed. Please verify your card information or choose another card.'
We have since tried a credit card with HSBC and the same thing happened, we spoke to HSBC and they cannot see that it has been attempted either.
Is anybody else having a similar issue? We are patiently waiting to speak to apple on live chat.