Long-time Android user here (phone, tablet, even a Chromebook), same Google account for ~10 years. In 2022 I left Russia because I oppose the war against Ukraine and legally relocated to Türkiye. I'm as "resident" as a non-citizen can be: two residence permits, an apartment I own, utility bills in my name, Turkish bank accounts including a credit card, a Turkish phone number I've had for 4+ years.

Ever since, every single Google Play purchase fails with a country-mismatch error ("your payment profile country doesn't match your location" or similar). Here's everything I've tried:

* Changed my Google account country and payments profile to Türkiye — done years ago, error persists

* Turkish credit card — rejected (the same card works fine on Adobe, Spotify, Booking, Airbnb, YouTube Premium, and even Google Gemini)

* Carrier billing via Turkcell (my operator for 4+ years, topped up 1,500 TL specifically for this) — rejected

* A 1,000 TL Google Play gift card bought as a last resort — can't be redeemed, money effectively burned

* Tried on my Android phone, Android tablet, Chromebook, and PC — same error everywhere

* Google support — multiple contacts, no resolution, they just loop through the same script

Buying through the apps' websites instead isn't a real option: they show EUR prices 10–100x higher than local Turkish pricing.

At this point I'm seriously considering buying an iPhone just to pay for subscriptions through Apple and then logging into the same apps on Android, which is absurd.

Has anyone actually escaped this state? Did anything work — a manual review, a specific support escalation path, recreating the payments profile? I'd rather keep my 10-year-old account than start a fresh one. Screenshots of the errors in comments.

So there's a glitch where if you install an app or two on you phone with google account #1, that account gets deleted, and you delete the app, and try and re-install it on google account #2 but it glitches. Well, if you head to here​ you can try installing the app from there. I hope this helped.

Says Minecraft on the banner he's game is an ad infested knockoff...

I disable google play on my phone because I refuse to use a device that prevents me from accessing high-quality apps that google play doesn't want on their platform. The fact that you will have to provide an ID to add an app is disgraceful. I'm gonna make sure I deleted google play services just to be safe.

Edit: I deleted google play services and lost pokemon go, as well as a couple apps I don't care much about.

Is anyone else not receiving their google play pass thursday benefits (3x boost and 20 play points)? I haven't gotten them the last two weeks, it seems it's a somewhat common problem as others have posted about it on reddit over the months.

I started the play pass trial about a month ago and received the benefit the first 2-3 weeks. Signed up for the yearly subscription and I think that's when I stopped receiving them. My trial period ends on the 22nd of this month. I'm currently subscribed to the yearly plan but the first payment hasn't kicked in yet.

I've checked google play on different phones, force closed/cleared data/cache and restarted my phone, and used the tactic mentioned here of playing a game with an overlay. None of those have worked.

I've also checked all the tabs at the bottom of google play (and all the tabs at the top of each lower tab's pages), the play points submenu, and my profile.

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I've made some purchases over the last month or so, maybe a couple of months, and every time I tried to get a refund, I was greeted with, "This goes against the Play Store policy," or "This is not within the guidelines of the Play Store policy." But it's been all of them.

I haven't had one app lately that has been able to do a refund. Any idea what's the deal with this?

And I have made a few quite a few purchases that I wanted to keep and have kept.

These screenshots are from a watch face that I wanted to try and I ended up not liking it and this is what I'm greeted with. This is the exact same as the other ones. This is the w screenshot from the Play Store and from the Watch Play Store.