Seriously Apple, you can do better than this.

Having tried to upgrade my .mac account to a MobileMe Family Pack account I noticed this rather unusual error at the top of the page… “Server Error: CreditCard Auth Successful” - how can a Successful auth be an error?

Contacted my bank and sure enough, Apple have taken the payment, but not provided anything in exchange for it - seems that many more people have had the same problem (and have tried repeatedly or with multiple cards without noticing this Auth Successful message at the top)

First the £121 free trial and now this, it’s ridiculous!!

I suppose we should be at least mildly grateful that Apple’s app designers were kind enough to put a sensible error message up (with a status explaination rather than just “Try again later”) as at least it gave me enough information not to try and pay twice!!!!

Apple - It’s bad enough that you broke .mac for everyone in the changeover to MobileMe but the amount of billing errors (and the sheer scale of them!) is unacceptable.