Is the Itunes store temporarily unavailable

I have been trying the past few hours to download a song and I get a message that says I can't use my credits, but that I will be charged. I hit ok, and it then says that credit card purchases are temporarily unavailable. Is this something on my end?

I've had the same problem since making 32 purchses 24 hours ago. thought it might be my work firewall but it still did not work at home. however i could download new music with no problem. of course i can;t re-download the purchases as they are already logged as downloaded.
Anyway, i have had a response from a fault log i sent, they say the are working on it but in the meantime, maybe it's my ISP/firewall/etc etc/blah blah blah. this arrived this morning from an email i sent last night. since then i've sent another report but received no reply. got through to apple support by following a telephone number associated with iTunes support, but the guy told me he couldn't help and that there is no telephone support for iTunes, only online. he had no knowledge of any fault with iTunes.
Apple are highly regarded over here in the UK for their high standard of postsales customore care on the high st, and the 'class of it's own' Mac store on Regent st. Shame it does not extend to the online community. I've only just started using iTunes due to the highyl bitrate of the iTunes plus i discovered only the other day. Wish i hadn't bothered now, could have nipped to the store and had the CD's buy now.

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Choose one that suits you:
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Since you don't tell us which country you're in, it's hard to say. But if I were to get that message when I tried getting into the Store (which I can at the time I'm writing this), then I would simply try again later. Even though "later" is an unspecified time - to occur in the future, I would not try after two minutes.
If after 24 hours, the same problem occurs, don't give up.
If after three days, I might wonder if everyone had left the country and not included me.
I'm sure it will be available soon.

"Complete my season" is not working for my iTunes store?? I keep getting an error message saying the iTunes store is unavailable over a week or more??

My itunes store is acting kinda funny...
When I click on "complete my seasons" under TV shows I keep getting an error message telling me:
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Any idea how to fix this or why it keeps telling me the itunes store is unavailable?? I have signed in an out and still I can not see all the seasons of TV shows I have purchased.
Thanks,
Max

Hi Allan, thanks for that. I've already set up a log in for my wife and that is all working fine. The problem is that when she logs in and opens iTunes and trys to associate her library with her iTunes account she gets the error message "This computer is already associated with another iTunes account". Whilst this is true, the computer is associated with my iTunes account under my separate log in, which should have nothing to do with hers. If she transfers the association to her account it will lock me out of my content on my log in for 90 days - I'm trying to work out how to associate each of the log in accounts with a separate iTunes account so we can access our music independently of one another without locking each other out. Hope that makes sense!

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PROBLEM:
Our iPhones, iPad, and iPod Touches all give us "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" message when we try to purchase an App or update Apps using Apple's "App Store" App. When using iTunes on our MAC desktop, which is used to sync all our devices, I'd select "Check for available downloads" from the Store Menu and would recieve the error message "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes store is temporarily unavailable. Please check back later." All our devices and software were up to date. We had not upgraded to iCloud yet, allthough I don't think that matters.
Note:
- We were able to purchase songs on iTunes and access our iTunes account so we had access to iTunes Store, despite the misleading error messages. We just couldn't get the Apps to download or update.
- This happened whether I was on my iPhone using our password protected WiFi, the non-password protected WiFi at the local Apple Store, as well as when I turned WiFi off and used 3G.
I spent hours trying every solution offered on these discussion boards as well as an on non-Apple sites to no avail. I went to the local Apple store and after an hour and a half wait had someone at the Genius Bar check it out and say he couldn't fix it. I emailed Apple Help on this website and received a boilerplate reply pointing to 2 KBs that I'd already tried (support.apple.com/kb/TS1368) and (support.apple.com/kb/TS1398). When I replied I tried all that, and still needed help they pointed me to Apple Care. My husband called Apple Care who wouldn't talk to us because supposedly you can only purchase it during a window of time after buying your new device. Our iPad is the youngest at only 4 months old, so I don't know how that can be. Maybe he didn't want to pay for it just yet. I was ready to chuck these into the trash until my husband figured it out.
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SOLUTION:
Went to the MAC desktop that we use to sync and update all our devices. In iTunes in the left hand column under "Store" click Download. The app at the top of the queue was "stuck" (similar to a printer that won't print because of a problem with the first job in the queue). Click the first App in the queue to get it downloading. That's it!
Once they all chug through then you can start updating apps on your devices using the App Store app. Relief!
I hope this helps someone because it was a frustrating experience!

I had this exact issue. However, I was not even able to "see" the pending downloads when I tried fixing them using the solution above.
In another thread, I saw that someone mentioned an issue with the use of the "&" (ampersand) symbol in your appleID information. I had recently changed my name and it did include the & symbol in my name (not the appleID itself). I replaced the ampersand with the word "and" and saved. I then went to the iTunes store and logged into my account there and made the same change on my billing name.
Voila! I could now access the 7 pending downloads on my desktop Mac and download them, and all iPhone/iPad/Ipods were again able to download from the app store.
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Hi,
Ever since i have installed windows 8.1 i am having the error pop up.
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any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks

Hi Lee,
'Users' is not a file but a directory on C: drive, if you haven't moved it elsewhere. Navigate into the path above with file explorer. The user name will vary, navigate into your user name, also there is a space in 'Apple Computer'.
So the full path should be:
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Perhaps this can be of help:
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It fixed the problem for this DukeHutchens in this thread:
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Please Apple experts, stop telling everyone to check apple support tips!!!
I just twitted with MANY users and iTunes store is not working in MANY European Countries, South America AND UK!!!
Trying to help people who can't access (or wont), Apple Discussions, but no one seems to be listening to this problem that's going on for days now.
Many users disconfigured their computers following Apple tips!!!!
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After receiving the "temporarily unavailable" error message on the iMac for three days, rebooting multiple times, etc., without effect, this morning the store started working on this computer as well.
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"iTunes store temporarily unavailable. Please try again later"

i get that error message everytime i try to check for purchases to download my pre orders. i can download a new song or cd i just cant get the stuff that i pre orderd. Please help me this has been going of for a month and iTunes support is no help at all.

My son is also getting this exact message on both our new laptop with Vista and the older desktop with XP. I am NOT having this problem on either machine. He has 18 downloads waiting and can't download them.
I have checked firewall settings, pop up blockers, outdated account info, and msconfig. I have uninstalled and reinstalled itunes and still am having this problem with his account.
I also tried logging into his user account on both the laptop and the pc and then logged him out of itunes and then logged myself in to see if it was the installation. I had NO problems. I then turned that around and logged into my user account on both the laptop and pc and then tried to log him into MY installation of itunes, but OOPS, got the error message again.
This has been going on for months and appears to be arbitrary. Sometimes a song will download, but sometimes another won't. He bought an album and only some of the songs downloaded. The others are "waiting to be downloaded" and when we try to "Check for Purchases", he still gets the message, even though he's IN THE STORE!

ITunes Store temporarily unavailable Again!

Is this happening way more frequently for everyone or just me and my region?
I live in Maine.
Whatever iut is really annoying to sit down with dinner, ready to watch a movie and blammo...get hit with that message.
Or all ready to take a trip and go to download an audiobokk and ooops....guess not.
For those of us who have cut the cable, this is a major inconvenience.
I don't remember it happening this much before.

My son is also getting this exact message on both our new laptop with Vista and the older desktop with XP. I am NOT having this problem on either machine. He has 18 downloads waiting and can't download them.
I have checked firewall settings, pop up blockers, outdated account info, and msconfig. I have uninstalled and reinstalled itunes and still am having this problem with his account.
I also tried logging into his user account on both the laptop and the pc and then logged him out of itunes and then logged myself in to see if it was the installation. I had NO problems. I then turned that around and logged into my user account on both the laptop and pc and then tried to log him into MY installation of itunes, but OOPS, got the error message again.
This has been going on for months and appears to be arbitrary. Sometimes a song will download, but sometimes another won't. He bought an album and only some of the songs downloaded. The others are "waiting to be downloaded" and when we try to "Check for Purchases", he still gets the message, even though he's IN THE STORE!

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