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Rychiar

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May 16, 2006
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my apple apple pay is not working right now as I try to buy an apple gift card from the Apple Store with it on the app. I contacted apple support and they told me there was an outage but I read nothing about it... this has been going on since last night as far as I know
 
Cus last night i tried to use it to buy a gift card on apples site to put towards it since my card limit isnt too high and it told me my card was declined… THeres no reason for my card to decline so i contacted apple support who said that most transanctions are currently down with Apple Pay…. I figured it was just a brief outage then and would try it in the morning… well it still doesn’t work today… anyone else having issues?
 
It has been working fine for me, and don't see anyone else reporting Apple Pay issues here or on downdetector.com. I have a feeling the tech was being less than helpful.

I know you said there's no reason for your card to decline, but have you checked your actual/remaining credit limit (credit limit - current balance - pending charges/holds)? If you go over this, the card can be declined. Another thing to check is to make sure the name and billing address is set up exactly the same as what's on record for the card. If you can, try charging a smaller amount to see if that goes through, or a different card.
 
It has been working fine for me, and don't see anyone else reporting Apple Pay issues here or on downdetector.com. I have a feeling the tech was being less than helpful.

I know you said there's no reason for your card to decline, but have you checked your actual/remaining credit limit (credit limit - current balance - pending charges/holds)? If you go over this, the card can be declined. Another thing to check is to make sure the name and billing address is set up exactly the same as what's on record for the card. If you can, try charging a smaller amount to see if that goes through, or a different card.
Yeah my friend that works for apple just told me the tech must be lying cus she heard nothing. What a deceitful thing to say to someone. I’m nowhere near my limit. I’m gonna try purchasing from another device when i get home tonight… just wanted it to work on the phone so i don’t have any issues buying the AVP
 
It has been working fine for me, and don't see anyone else reporting Apple Pay issues here or on downdetector.com. I have a feeling the tech was being less than helpful.

I know you said there's no reason for your card to decline, but have you checked your actual/remaining credit limit (credit limit - current balance - pending charges/holds)? If you go over this, the card can be declined. Another thing to check is to make sure the name and billing address is set up exactly the same as what's on record for the card. If you can, try charging a smaller amount to see if that goes through, or a different card.
I got another tech who was equally as useless tonight so I decided to try to buy the gift card with my Apple Card but not through Apple Pay... that worked fine. makes no sense.
 
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