718805 - Bad apps that cannot be bought

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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Description

[Andy McKay]

There are conditions where an app can become premium, but then at a later date cannot be sold. For example the seller revokes their refund permission, removes all the currencies from their paypal account or paypal just bans their account.

I'm writing cron jobs and doing checks to catch these under seperate bugs. 

But what should I do with an app when I find a bad one? I'm thinking a) email the developer (and maybe us) and b) change status to disabled.

Any opinions?

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Fligtar/gkoberger:  what do you want to happen?

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Bump

Comment 3

[Gregory Koberger (:gkoberger)]

Andy, I feel like we agreed on something in a meeting -- but off the top of my head, I don't remember what. What's the current plan?

Comment 4

[Andy McKay]

I think the only agreement was to email Justin. I'll re-send that.

Comment 5

[Gregory Koberger (:gkoberger)]

Hopefully this won't be a common occurrence, so we should be fine handling it manually for now, I think. Once we start seeing it in the wild a few more times, we can tweak what we do.

Comment 6

[Andy McKay]

I agree, its something we are going to have to figure out as we go along. We've got the cron and start of doing something in place. With nothing constructive to do here, should we just close this?

Comment 7

[Gregory Koberger (:gkoberger)]

We can reopen it if something comes up. Thanks Andy!