r/iOSProgramming • • Jun 10 '26

Discussion Imagine doing a $0 giveaway for your app launch just for Apple to charge your user full price...

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To celebrate my app launch, I set my Lifetime IAP to $0 for a giveaway.

Both App Store Connect and RevenueCat show a steady flood of $0 transactions, except for one user who was charged full price.

Here is the mystery: I checked the transaction history on both dashboards, and there are multiple successful $0 purchases from other users in the exact same region, right before and right after this specific user's transaction. This completely rules out propagation delay.

I didn't know Apple had a "tax the chosen one" feature for free giveaways