My opinion is that it should be up to the developer for the refund period, if any at all are offered. For example, a developer could market an app as refundable within x hours of installing, or not refundable at all. In the end, it's still up to the consumers to decide to buy or not to buy. Why is this such a bad concept? If someone buys an app, and it doesn't work, and the developer fails to fix it, then call the credit card company and get it charged back.
If I think an app might be crap, then I'll wait for reviews, either in the market or somewhere on the web. People whine about the Apple App store but it still manages a tremendous amount of sales. To say that each and every item can be returned before 24 (or 48) hours is horrible. Until Google/OHA changes this, there is probably going to be plenty of people abusing the market. And OHA members can look forward to VERY weak Android Market sales profits. On Mar 23, 11:41 am, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, calm down. It's not the seller's fault that Google only gave them > the choice of Applications, or Games. Neither is a good fit. > > -- Eric > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You know, it actually seems quite inappropriate and exceedingly RUDE > > to be selling that type of content in the APPLICATIONS market. Media/ > > books/other data != applications. It would be very nice if that crap > > wouldn't be polluting the market. There is no reason that these things > > should be marketed as applications. If you want to sell books, give > > away or sell a READER APPLICATION that provides access to a > > SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. Sell or give away ONE reader application that > > can subscribe to or buy MANY books/comics/whatever. > > > Note that this would also solve YOUR problem with refunds since YOUR > > service is subject to YOUR TERMS. > > > On Mar 22, 10:36 pm, "[email protected]" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the answers. > > >> On Mar 22, 6:03 pm, Jon Colverson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > On Mar 22, 10:44 pm, "[email protected]" > > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > Why are there refunds allowed onbooks(whether they are digital comic > >> > >booksor motion comicbooksor any other regularbooks)? This does not > >> > > seem fair since it can be downloaded, read and then refunded and yet > >> > > they still get to keep it and re-read it as many times as they want. > > >> > When a buyer uses therefundbutton the app is automatically > >> > uninstalled from the phone. > > >> > -- > >> > Jon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
