Two Apple ID's: Dealing With It

Here's a means to deal with the 2 Apple ID problem. It's not necessarily a solution; it's a message to Apple.
Background: The old MobileMe, iTunes, and iCloud accounts do not get along. This is because iTunes used one Apple ID for purchases, and MobileMe another, which was always the @me.com or @mac.com email address.
Along comes iCloud and it insists that the @me.com adress is its own Apple ID, and al devices and iCloud apps or content services must and can only sync to a device running that account. This does not mean you cannot use your content from the old iTunes Apple ID on your device if it is authorized, but many push, sunc, in-App opurchases, or auto-update featreus cannot work unless you make the effort to log-out of your iCloud Apple ID and log-in to iTunes with your iTunes Apple ID.
This 2 Apple ID confusion is maddening. Originally .Mac/MobileMe were Mac-only service with no relationship to iTunes. Since iTunes was a broad service extending into the world of PC's and Windows, it did not tie its accounts (Apple ID's) to a specific Apple-generated email address. this is probably why @mac.com was replace with the less Macentric @me.com.
Here's a way to get the message to Apple that this transition is creating all sorts of problems for those with older iTunes and .Mac/MobileMe Apple ID's:
Using iTunes, log in to the Apple ID you DO NOT WANT in the future. This will be the Apple ID with the email address different than the one you use for iCloud. Duoble-check.
If you do not have an iTunes account with your iCloud name then you are safe and free to make one that is identical. Stop reading any further.
Once you've logged into your iTunes account (which is just the account attached to your Apple ID), go to Purchase History.
Identify all purchases in an invoice (each sepaarte line item is an invoice) and click Report a Problem.
Always choose the LAST item in the pulldown menu. This is the catch-all, generic problem.
Type in (or modify as you see fit), then click Done. Repeat for every paid item:
This item downloaded to the wrong account. For syncing with iCloud I need it to be on my iCloud account which is Apple ID [email protected]. Thank-you.
I did this on a trial basis and recieved a transfer. I have now reported all 400 paid items from my non-iCloud account witht the above request. It took a bit of time, but I feel it may achieve what I require.
It only works with paid items: apps or media content. Anything free or an in-app purchase does not work and will bump you to a webpage. For free items find your email invoices and print those, then re-download them again.
But here's the catch. Apple has to respond to every one of those requests. If an app costs $0.99 then Apple takes $0.33. responding to every "Report a Problem". For every $0.99 app will use more labor costs than the app made for Apple. Same for songs.
Apple offers great products and services, but this ping-pong game with .Mac, MobileMe, iTunes, and now iCloud is a major problem because it diminsishes the capabilities of our invested hardware when we cannot sync across Apple ID's. The most loyal Apple customers were those early adopters who, like myself, find we cannot utilize all our apps and content because we cannot combine Apple ID's.
This method may not work or work for everyone, but it sends a message that there ineed is a "Problem", triggered by iCloud's implementation.

Some things are mixed up here, seemingly...
I seem to have two Apple ID's attached to my e-mail.
An Apple ID is a valid email address, apparently. How can those be "attached to your email"... what email?
Facetime will not verify my e-mail address because it is associated with the other account.
This doesn't make sense. You can register multiple, even non-Apple-ID, email addresses and their aliases with FaceTime.
So, maybe you can explain your problem better - what you want and the steps you've taken and what you have so far. If something doesn't work, please tell the exact error message, too.

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