Can not buy Mountain Lion: The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed.

When I want to buy Mountain Lion I get the following message
The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed.
I have a MacBook Pro 15" from mid 2010 with OS X 10.7.4
I have already reinstalled Combo 10.7.4 but that did not bring any change
Does any one have an other greate idea?
Thanks in advance for your help
Rene

renefromhannover wrote:
Hello to everyone that helped me.
I have tryed all the solutions that you have offered, but with no sucsess.
I have also tryed to contact the support from the AppStore, but I only got the answer please contact our other collegues, from the Technical Support unit.
I tryed as the last atemped to reinstall Lion 10.7 through the AppStore (by going to purchases) after I went through the process, downloading and installing, I could also purchase, download and install Mountainlion.
(one small hick-up, after I finished downloading Lion, the AppStore gave me the same Message as before:
The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed.
I just pressed the button to download, again. After that I had no more issues.)
I hope that this will help you.
Best Regards
Rene
Hello,
In my case, that would not be possible since before the message I have got , the system said
"We could not complete your App Store request" or something similar.  And the only choice I had, is to click on OK button. As I said, the only way I found is to start from Mac OS 10.6 to succeed in buying, not only downloading, but simply buying Mountain Lion.
Best Regards from France

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