ANDROID MARKETING TIPS & TRICKS
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Google Android
Market does not offer a ‘try before you buy’ option for testing paid apps but
there’s an easy workaround that will help you try any of the paid apps before
buying them.
Google’s online
Android Market, now called Google Play, is huge with more than 200,000 apps for
your Android mobile phone and tablets. A lot of these Android Apps are
available as free downloads while the paid apps can cost anywhere between 99 ¢
and $200.
Amazon runs a
parallel online store for Android Apps and one good thing about Amazon’s store
is that it lets you test and test apps before you actually buy them.
But Google
does not offer “try before you buy” apps but there’s an easy workaround that
will help you test any paid app before buying it – you buy an app from the Android
market, use it for about 10-12 minutes and then refund the app. The app will be
uninstalled from your mobile phone and your account won’t be charged.
How to Refund an Android App
It take a few
easy steps to refund an app to the Android Market:
Step 1: Visit the
Google Android Market, either on your desktop or your mobile phone, and buy any
of the ‘paid’ apps.
Step 2: The app
is now installed on your mobile phone. Launch the app and you can test it for
the next 10-12 minutes.
Step 3. Go back to
the Android Market app on your mobile phone and under “My Apps,” tap the app
name that you are trying to refund. Hit the “Refund” button and the app will
automatically uninstall from your mobile phone.
Step 4. Once the
App has been uninstalled, it may ask you to specify a reason for removing the
app. You can check “I’d rather not say” here and the app amount will be
refunded. You’ll also get an email from Google saying:
You have
uninstalled the application from your phone. We have cancelled your order and
you have not been charged.
The refund
process is quite easy and 10 minutes are often enough for you to get a good
idea about an app. I tried this with at least two different paid apps and the
whole thing worked without a hitch. There are however two things regarding
Google’s refund policy that you should know:
1. You only have
15 minutes to return an app to the Android Market from the time of download
after which the “refund” option will disappear from the app.
2. You can return
an app only once; if you refund an app and purchase it again, you won’t be able
to refund it to the
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