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Oh I have a good one. I'm banned from the Apple Store developer program before I even published an app there. I created an account to publish my (modest) app t
by emmanuel_1234 9y ago
Oh I have a good one. I'm banned from the Apple Store developer program before I even published an app there.
I created an account to publish my (modest) app to the App Store. I overlooked the security question because this is a really stupid way of securing an account. I paid the super hefty annual fee to get in.
Later down the line, I had to authenticate myself for some reasons I forgot. As a 2FA thing, they asked me for my security questions, which of course I didn't have (the communication with the friendly Apple guy on the phone was interesting "Try `security questions are stupid` as an answer?").
In the meantime, they told me they required some additional documents to confirm my subscription. I politely asked them to cancel that, I'll create a new account since there was apparently no way I could recover the original one. The problem escalated until someone from the US called me to deal with the problem (I was located in Asia at the time).
The not-so-friendly person on the phone refused to help me recover the account, as well as refused to cancel my current subscription (the payment had already been approved and the money withdrawn from my credit card payment, they didn't want to issue a refund. "We can't do that", she said).
I then argued that well, I will not provide whichever document they asked, and they'll have no choice but to 1. cancel my subscription and 2. pay me back. The unfriendly person told me that I'll get a refund in a month, and that I was subsequently banned from the App store and the developer program. She then proceeded to hang up on me. I won, and take pride of being banned from such a toxic place.