Charged for Free iPhone Apps?

Question

I just got an iPhone yesterday and I downloaded some free applications from the App Store, but when I went to look at my bank account there was two charges from the App Store. Unless there is some fee for creating an account, these charges are entirely unwarranted as I have not downloaded any applications that are not free.
Can anyone shed some light as to why this might have happened, or point me in the direction of someone who can help me?

Answer 1

Having had 4 charges reversed, I can say with confidence that the appstore has some significant loopholes which developers can exploit.
Here are the issues
1. Developers can change the name of the app at will
2. Apple do not keep a log of the "names" a particular app assumes over time
3. When an app's name is changed by the developer, Apples rewrites all the databases with the new name thus no record is left with the old name
4. Although Apple maintains an unique identifier for every app, that is not visible to the iphone user.
So here is what happened to me.
The developer had a free app by name "A". I had in the past downloaded this app multiple times. A few weeks back developer changed the name of the app to "B" and added a new paid app and gave it the name "A" !!
Last week I went searching in App Store because I had reinstalled my iphone and wanted to get back the my old app called "A". when i searched for it two apps showed up both A and B. while B was free, A was now 4.99. I was confused, so I went back to my past emails from itunes and found the Order receipt from itunes which says I bought app "A" for free. So I assumed that i can buy A free eventhough it now cost 4.99 because I had downloaded it in the past. But Apple sent me a bill for 4.99 because the app I thought was app A was infact a new app and the developer had secretly changed the name of old app A to app B.
More interesting stuff happened when I disputed the charge. All the apple agents I spoke to was disputing my claim that in the past I had purchased app A for free because their records show that the app I purchased for free was app B. Now I asked apple representative Patrick from app store billing to send me the old receipt and surprisingly apple has erased the receipt with the new data, so in place of app A it now shows app B.
You see were it goes.
So if i want to make money, I should just buy a fairely popular free app from a developer, change its name to something obsure. Now release a useless highly priced paid app and give it the old name of the free app. Now clueless customers will redownload this app thinking they wont be charged since they already had it will be stuck with the bill.
Apple u need to fix it.!!!