In App purchase - app rejected

Hi,
Senario--
I have a navigation app in which there are numbers of route, some route are free and some are purchasable with different price (max $3).
The routes are created by user on the go.
To achive this, I categorise all the route into 3 category based on their price range
a) 0-1
b) 1-2
c) 2-3
I created 3 consumable product Id and implemented the In app purchase for the user to buy those routes.
Once the user purchase a route, I update in my native server and he can download it for free for rest of his life as many times.
Apple review team rejected my app citing inappropriate implementation of IAP.
They are asking to maintain unique Product ID for each route.
But it is impossible or rather unrealistic to seat and keep on adding product id for every route a user upload to my server.
Moreover all the Product Id's I made are consumable.
Question 1
What is the proper way to implement IAP to achive my goal
#Note Categorising route is not mendatory
I had even asked the Apple review team if I could use virtual purchase--
Detail---
It is just like pre paid account-
User buy User Balance or say Account Balance. (real purchase using IAP)
As they go on buying routes user balance get deducted (here comes virtual purchase, i deduct user balance, this is maintain at my native server )
But the Apple team rejected my proposal citing, we need to tell the user why and for what he is paying for.
So how to achive my goal to let user buy routes.
Thanx in advance.

Hi ..
You need to take this to the Apple developer forums, not here.
This community is for troubleshotoing the App Store.

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